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Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings

Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings
Taco Bell plans to install new "Grill-To-Order" cooking machines in all of their locations to reduce water and energy use and improve ...

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies
IBM announced new energy-management software, an expansion of its energy certificates program, and an energy benchmark to help ...

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners
The Uptime Institute, a research-based think-tank and advisor on business and technology issues related to computing and energy efficiency, ...

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money
As gas prices rise, companies are driving for bigger energy savings in every corner, USAToday reports. Companies and business ...

Verizon Uses Software, Thin Clients To Cut Energy Consumption

Verizon Uses Software, Thin Clients To Cut Energy Consumption
Over the past year, Verizon Wireless has deployed 1E WakeUp, which ensures that all PCs, whether on or off, ...

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Sony Recycling Pays off

Sony Recycling Pays off
Sony is gathering the plastic shells of old Sony TVs from recycling plants, collecting excess Styrofoam from its production ...

Trane Cuts Costs With Lighting Retrofit

Trane Cuts Costs With Lighting Retrofit
Air conditioning manufacturer Trane has saved over $30,000 in energy costs with a lighting retrofit at its Vidalia, Ga., ...

P&G, Hasbro, Stew Leonard’s Among NEEP Energy Efficiency Honorees

P&G, Hasbro, Stew Leonard’s Among NEEP Energy Efficiency Honorees
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships has announced the latest group of Northeast Business Leaders for Energy Efficiency: P&G-Gillette in Boston, Massachusetts cut energy ...

ecoEnvelopes Reusable Envelope Gets USPS Approval

ecoEnvelopes Reusable Envelope Gets USPS Approval
The US Postal Service has approved ecoEnvelopes' line of reusable envelopes, certifying that the design meets the qualifications ...

Honeywell Expands Energy-Efficiency Program for Motels

Honeywell Expands Energy-Efficiency Program for Motels
Honeywell has been awarded a $4.5 million contract extension for its energy-efficiency program Cool Control Plus, currently ...

Hobie Cat Cuts Energy Costs 20% With Lighting Retrofit

Hobie Cat Cuts Energy Costs 20% With Lighting Retrofit
Hobie Cat has completed a lighting retrofit that will save about $24,000 in annual energy costs. The Oceanside, Calif. company ...

HP To Build 1-Megawatt Solar Power System

HP To Build 1-Megawatt Solar Power System
HP will install a large-scale solar power system at its San Diego facility and buy windpower to run a number ...

Rockefeller Center Launches Major Green Initiatives

Rockefeller Center Launches Major Green Initiatives
Rockefeller Center is getting a green makeover this holiday season that includes solar panels, LED Christmas tree lights, a green roof, ...

Direct Marketer’s Recycle Bins Save $500,000 Per Year

Direct Marketer’s Recycle Bins Save $500,000 Per Year
Direct mail and marketing firm PEP-Direct says it will save approximately $500,000 a year working with International Paper Products Corp. ...

Sun, 10 Other IT Firms To Build Energy-Saving Underground Data Center

Sun, 10 Other IT Firms To Build Energy-Saving Underground Data Center
Sun Microsystems and 10 other IT firms plan to build an underground data center in Japan, Nikkei reports. It will consume ...

GE Says Metal Preparation Process Saves Roper Money, Water

GE Says Metal Preparation Process Saves Roper Money, Water
Roper Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric that manufactures cooking appliances, has reduced its annual water consumption by more than ...

Verizon Dips Toe Into Solar

Verizon Dips Toe Into Solar
Verizon says it's installing 140 solar panels at its central office building in Tampa Florida. The project is expected to generate ...

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 ...

Pier 1 Installs CFLs In 120 California Stores

Pier 1 Installs CFLs In 120 California Stores
PG&E's Energy Fitness Program, which analyzes a company's lighting use and replaces fixture housings, is helping some big companies make big ...

Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Costing Marketers Money

Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Costing Marketers Money
Wal-Mart's sustainability initiative to downsize packaging is costing manufacturers money, AdAge reports. It could cost Procter & Gamble, part ...

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Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

True or false? “Until corporate environmental best practices are considered as confidential as other company IP, they are clearly not driving competitive ... continue »

Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Bet On Oregon’s Clean Future
Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Google-designed data centers are the most efficient in the world, according to a post on the company's blog by Urs Hölzle, ...

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Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many
Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
CEOs Leading Champions Of Corporate Green Initiatives
Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push

Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push

Mitsubishi Motors came back from bailout in part by pushing eco-cars, Reuters reports. But the global credit crunch is testing the traction ...

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What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
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Vinod Khosla On The Need For Clean Tech To Deliver Real Results
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Marketing

Critics Say Energy Star Standards Too Lax

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Emissions

Supermarkets Shifting to Greener Buildings

Porsche, GM/Chevrolet Win Le Mans Series’ Green Challenge

Sprint Sets Goal Of Cutting GHG Emissions 15%

Hi-Tech

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

European Data Centers Face Energy Crisis

Green IT Brings Small Businesses Cost Savings

Efficiency

Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

CNE Launches Service To Help Companies Manage GHG Emissions

Manufacturing

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Expert Advice on Making Businesses Carbon Neutral

CDM Applicants Alter Documents To Prove ‘Additionality’

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

CSR Reports

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Honda Reduces 700 kg of CO2 Emissions Per Vehicle Produced

Major Players

FedEx Hybrid Truck Plan Hits Speed Bump

USPS Launches Year-long Energy Conservation Campaign

AT&T Installing 1 Megawatt Solar System

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