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Home Depot Says It Will Save $16 Million By Switching To CFLs

Home Depot Says It Will Save $16 Million By Switching To CFLs
Home Depot has announced (PDF) a free in-store, consumer CFL bulb recycling program at all of its 1,973 ...

Ray Anderson On Sustainability At Interface

Ray Anderson On Sustainability At Interface
At the World Food Business Summit, Ray Anderson, founder & chairman of Interface, spoke about sustainability with Forum Magazine....

Novozymes To Make Big Wind Power Purchase

Novozymes To Make Big Wind Power Purchase
As part of a partnership with DONG Energy, Novozymes says its facilities in Denmark will be wind powered by ...

Renewable Energy ‘Essential Part’ Of Hawaiian Utility

Renewable Energy ‘Essential Part’ Of Hawaiian Utility
Through a competitive bidding framework the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission implemented in 2006, the Hawaiian Electric Co. says ...

OfficeMax Offers 100% PC Recycled Paper To Self-Serve Customers

OfficeMax Offers 100% PC Recycled Paper To Self-Serve Customers
OfficeMax is now offering 100 percent post-consumer paper at its self-serve copy machines, OfficeMax announced. Customers can upgrade ...

Peak Carbon

Peak Carbon
When I write my column for Environmental Leader each month, I'm pretty conservative with the facts and ideas that I use. ...

Environmental Measures Mean Healthy Returns For Hospitals

Environmental Measures Mean Healthy Returns For Hospitals
More hospitals are discovering the economic and environmental benefits of greening their operations, Nurse.com reports. Hospitals face fines beginning ...

Honda Cuts Fleet Transport Costs, Emissions With Auto-Max Rail Cars

Honda Cuts Fleet Transport Costs, Emissions With Auto-Max Rail Cars
Honda has announced a new 400-car fleet of Auto-Max rail cars, which hold up to 22 cars and trucks each -- twice ...

Energy Assessments Help Boise, Chrysler Slash Bills

Energy Assessments Help Boise, Chrysler Slash Bills
Even though it already had implemented proactive energy management policies, recommendations from a U.S. Department of Energy assessment saved ...

Alaska No.2 Behind California In Wind Investment

Alaska No.2 Behind California In Wind Investment
Legislation signed in Alaska creates a five-year, $250 million renewable energy program that puts Alaska among the states dedicating ...

Sustainability And Economy Behind Plant Renovations

Sustainability And Economy Behind Plant Renovations
Companies don't just renovate their plants for safety reasons anymore. Sustainability and energy efficiency are increasingly becoming the reasons ...

Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?

Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
As company marketing and advertising departments are waking up to the huge commercial opportunities within the emerging 'green' market, it is no ...

Timberland Launches Earthkeeper Campaign, Product Collection

Timberland Launches Earthkeeper Campaign, Product Collection
The Timberland Company has launched a new marketing campaign, Earthkeeper, with a goal of recruiting one million people to become part of ...

Sustainable Design Initiative Launched

Sustainable Design Initiative Launched
Groups from the U.S. and Italy have launched Elogico, a sustainable design initiative set on raising environmental consciousness ...

Mark Spellen On Plenty

Mark Spellen On Plenty
Mark Spellen, founder of Plenty, one of the top print platforms for B2C advertisers who want to reach green consumers, talks about ...

Campbell’s Soup Spearheads Redevelopment Of Hometown

Campbell’s Soup Spearheads Redevelopment Of Hometown
Corporate financial success is becoming more dependent on social responsibility, Forbes reports. Forbes cites the example of Campbell's Soup, ...

50% Of Businesses Lack Sustainability Strategy

50% Of Businesses Lack Sustainability Strategy
One-half of businesses recently polled lack a sustainability strategy. Those with a strategy are more likely to be focused on improving perceptions ...

Coke’s Australia Bottler Most Water-Efficient

Coke’s Australia Bottler Most Water-Efficient
Coke's bottling facility in Australia has become the most water-efficient bottler in Coke's global system, according to Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA). One of ...

Shades of Green for Everyone – The Effects of Premium Green and Sustainable Style

Shades of Green for Everyone – The Effects of Premium Green and Sustainable Style
According to the latest edition of NMI's LOHAS Consumer Trends Report, many consumers' purchasing patterns are affected by the phenomenon of trading ...

Climate Change And Water Supply

Climate Change And Water Supply
Green Canary Sustainability CEO Kevin Tuerff interviews Water District 17 General Manager Debbie Gernes, and EPA Advisory Council Chair John Howard about ...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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