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Clean Energy Attracts Investors Despite Struggling Economy

Clean Energy Attracts Investors Despite Struggling Economy
While the world's economy is struggling clean energy companies have continued to attract record investments, with global investments in ...

Applied Materials Gets 5-Year Contract From Green Energy Technology

Applied Materials Gets 5-Year Contract From Green Energy Technology
Applied Materials announced this week that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology to support the ...

Ikea To Sell Solar Panels

Ikea To Sell Solar Panels
Ikea plans to invest about $77 million into clean-technology startups over the next five years, with the goal of ...

Crystal Rock’s Solar System Up and Running

Crystal Rock’s Solar System Up and Running
Crystal Rock, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vermont Pure Holdings, announced this week that the company's 300kW solar photovoltaic ...

North Face Plans Solar Energy System

North Face Plans Solar Energy System
The North Face is planning a 1MW solar electricity system at its ...

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Florida Green Energy Program Ends Over Spending Controversy

Florida Green Energy Program Ends Over Spending Controversy
Florida's Public Service Commission recently voted to end an $11.4 million green energy promotion program which overwhelmingly funded marketing ...

Anheuser-Busch To Pour 5 Billion Green Beers In 2009

Anheuser-Busch To Pour 5 Billion Green Beers In 2009
Anheuser-Busch announced it will brew about one in seven beers, or over 5 billion 12.oz servings, with alternative energy ...

Frog’s Leap Winery Embraces Green Strategies

Frog’s Leap Winery Embraces Green Strategies
Green strategies at Frog's Leap Winery include a solar installation, a LEED-certified hospitality center and geothermal technologies that power heating and cooling ...

Sharp Bows Solar Ad Campaign

Sharp Bows Solar Ad Campaign
Sharp has launched a national marketing campaign emphasizing the company's expanded focus in the solar industry. The campaigns are ...

Johnson Controls Pushes Solar Kits

Johnson Controls Pushes Solar Kits
Johnson Controls is now selling solar kits designed to make it easy for customers to make their buildings more energy efficient, the ...

Automakers, Utilities Seek Alternatives

Automakers, Utilities Seek Alternatives
High prices for oil and natural gas are leading utilities and automakers to seek alternative energy solutions, but they ...

GM Installing World’s Largest Rooftop Solar Power System

GM Installing World’s Largest Rooftop Solar Power System
General Motors is adding what it claims is the world's largest rooftop solar power installation to its car ...

Owens Corning Installing Solar Power System

Owens Corning Installing Solar Power System
Owens Corning is installing a 206 kilowatt solar power system on the roof of its Gresham, Oregon facility. The company has entered into ...

Jarvis Latest Winery To Install Solar Power

Jarvis Latest Winery To Install Solar Power
Jarvis Winery has installed a solar electric system that will generate approximately 155,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. Jarvis Winery ...

Prius Going Solar

Prius Going Solar
Toyota's next-generation Prius hybrids will sport solar panels, Reuters reports. The company will use solar panels from Kyocera. Toyota ...

Lee Company Installs Solar Power System

Lee Company Installs Solar Power System
The Lee Company, a maker of MicroHydraulics, has installed 1,760 photovoltaic panels on the roof of its Westbrook, Connecticut ...

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America
A solar radio-site system from Ericsson will provide enough clean energy to power Digicel's network coverage in remote areas ...

Feds Lift Moratorium On U.S. Solar Plant Applications

Feds Lift Moratorium On U.S. Solar Plant Applications
The Bureau of Land Management says it is calling off a recently announced moratorium on applications to build solar plants on public ...

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group
Richard Branson plans to turn his Mosquito Island in the British Virgin Islands into the most environmentally-friendly resort in ...

AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education

AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education
During 2007, 452 presidents and chancellors committed to climate neutrality by signing the American College & University Presidents' ...

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The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

Unless you have been incommunicado for the last few years, you realize that the focus on green manufacturing has swept across Europe, ... continue »

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities
Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage
Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause-related marketing can exponentially increase sales, in one case as much as 74 percent, resulting in millions of dollars in potential revenue ...

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$5.2 Billion Invested in Cleantech Since January 2007
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business
Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Plastic From Plants Gets Some Airtime

Plastic From Plants Gets Some Airtime

Short video from an NBC affiliate on new developments in using plants to create sustainable packaging....

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Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change
Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste
Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Apple Unveils ‘Industry’s Greenest Notebook’

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Green Mountain Coffee Helps Vermont Cut Energy Use

Emissions

Owens Corning To Cut GHG Emissions 25%

CEA Saving Energy With Expanded Telework Policy

Italy’s Metal Industry: EU’s Carbon Law Hurts Competitiveness

Hi-Tech

Top 10 Low Power Desktop PCs

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Efficiency

Sears Tower Spending $145 Million On Green - Turbines, Solar In Mix

Dairy’s Carbon Footprint Drops to 12 Pounds Per Gallon

California Tops ACEEE’s State Energy Efficiency Scorecard

Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Want A Smaller Carbon Footprint? Pick A Different Ruler

Financial Crisis Threatens EU’s Carbon Plans

Pepsi Bottling Group Cuts 16,000 Tons of Plastic in 2007

CSR Reports

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Major Players

PR Agency Warned Starbucks About Wasteful Water Policy

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

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