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Digital Reality Trust Datacenter First To Earn LEED Gold Certification

Digital Reality Trust Datacenter First To Earn LEED Gold Certification
Digital Realty Trust has received the datacenter industry's first LEED Gold Certification for a Build-to-Suit datacenter for a Fortune Global 500 ...

California Air Board Approves Measures To Reduce Emissions

California Air Board Approves Measures To Reduce Emissions
The California Air Resources Board has approved six measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sacramento Bee. The ...

Kettle Foods Powers Potato Chip Facility With Wind Turbines

Kettle Foods Powers Potato Chip Facility With Wind Turbines
Potato chip and snack food-maker Kettle Foods has installed 18 wind turbines on the roof of its new Beloit, Wisconsin ...

Motel 6 Installs Efficiency Retrofits in 7,530 Rooms

Motel 6 Installs Efficiency Retrofits in 7,530 Rooms
Motel 6 will install energy-saving retrofits in a total of 7,530 rooms in the 66 Motel 6 properties located within Pacific Gas ...

How Efficient Is Your Escalator?

How Efficient Is Your Escalator?
Airports are looking for ways to make escalators more energy efficient. Power Efficiency Corporation, which focuses on efficiency technologies for electric ...

WaPo: $4.6 Billion AEP Settlement Victory For Power Industry

WaPo: $4.6 Billion AEP Settlement Victory For Power Industry
The American Electric Power settlement marks a significant victory for the power industry, which has opposed the "New Source Review" rule, ...

Johnson Controls Readies Proposal For Houston’s Energy Efficiency Overhaul

Johnson Controls Readies Proposal For Houston’s Energy Efficiency Overhaul
Within two weeks, Johnson Controls and other companies must submit detailed proposals on how they would improve energy efficiency in some ...

AEP To Pay $4.6 Billion In Record Clean Air Settlement

AEP To Pay $4.6 Billion In Record Clean Air Settlement
In a record settlement, American Electric Power has agreed to cut 813,000 tons of air pollutants annually at an estimated cost ...

UPS Adds 300 Alternative Fuel Vehicles

UPS Adds 300 Alternative Fuel Vehicles
UPS is adding 306 alternative fuel vehicles to its "green fleet" by placing an order for 167 Compressed Natural Gas delivery ...

83% Of Largest Retailers Involved In Green Practices

83% Of Largest Retailers Involved In Green Practices
Two-thirds of chief financial officers at leading U.S. retailers say their company is actively involved with “green” or environmentally friendly practices, and ...

Office Depot Releases Corporate Citizenship Report, Announces Green Building Plans

Office Depot Releases Corporate Citizenship Report, Announces Green Building Plans
Office Depot released its 2007 Corporate Citizenship Report, "Fulfilling Our Vision - Living Our Values." The Corporate Citizenship Report is a combined ...

Applied Materials Releases Environmental Report

Applied Materials Releases Environmental Report
Applied Materials has released its 2007 Environmental Responsibility Report. The report (PDF) includes performance data on the company’s energy consumption, greenhouse ...

Safeway To Install Solar Power Panels On 23 Stores

Safeway To Install Solar Power Panels On 23 Stores
Safeway plans to power 23 California stores with solar energy. The company installed solar panels atop a newly renovated Safeway Lifestyle store ...

Office Depot Cuts CO2 Emissions 10% Through Efficiency Upgrades

Office Depot Cuts CO2 Emissions 10% Through Efficiency Upgrades
Office Depot has reached a 10.1% absolute reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas and electricity consumed in its North American ...

Chevron Completes $13.6 Million Energy Efficiency Project For Colorado

Chevron Completes $13.6 Million Energy Efficiency Project For Colorado
Upgrades to 20 state buildings in Colorado are expected to reduce energy costs at the facilities by 25 to 30 percent, saving ...

Dow Corning Erects Solar Panels On Manufacturing Facility

Dow Corning Erects Solar Panels On Manufacturing Facility
Dow Corning has installed more than 1,000 square meters of solar panels on the roof and facades of its office and ...

Greensboro Makes Coliseum More Energy Efficient

Greensboro Makes Coliseum More Energy Efficient
Over the next few months, the Greensboro Coliseum - one of the largest arenas on the East Coast - will implement ...

Ameresco Joins Clinton Climate Initiative

Ameresco Joins Clinton Climate Initiative
Energy services provider Ameresco has joined the Clinton Climate Initiative. Ameresco will work with CCI’s Building Retrofit Program -? a partnership ...

U.S. Steel Makes Switch To Biodiesel

U.S. Steel Makes Switch To Biodiesel
Nearly 150 pieces of equipment at U.S. Steel's Gary Works, including loaders, dump trucks, flatbeds and Bobcats, will soon fueled by B5 ...

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies
With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate ...

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Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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