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Interview: Hip Investor’s CEO Paul Herman

Interview: Hip Investor’s CEO Paul Herman
Paul Herman is the CEO of HIP Investor, a San Francisco-based company which advises both investors and companies on how to be ...

Pike Place Market Environmental Initiatives - Part 2

Pike Place Market Environmental Initiatives - Part 2
How Pike Place Market's The Pink Door is incorporating eco-features into daily business....

UNH To Get 85% Of Energy From Landfill Methane

UNH To Get 85% Of Energy From Landfill Methane
Tom Kelly, Chief Sustainability Officer at the University of New Hampshire, says that a landfill methane project will provide 85 percent of ...

Pike Place Market Serves Up Environmental Initiatives

Pike Place Market Serves Up Environmental Initiatives
AccuWeather takes a look at the green initiatives at Seattle's Pike Place Market....

UN To Rule On Arctic Territorial Claims

UN To Rule On Arctic Territorial Claims
With climate change revealing more and more of the Arctic region's possibly energy-rich seabed, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the U.S., ...

ING Touts ‘Orange Goes Green’

ING Touts ‘Orange Goes Green’
This ING promo video touts the company's "Orange goes Green" environmental initiative....

Pittsburgh Convention Center Helps Green Up City’s Image

Pittsburgh Convention Center Helps Green Up City’s Image
Pittsburgh is trying to shed its image of a gritty, grimy steel town one building at a time. Its convention center is ...

Fort Knox Gets Energy Efficiency Overhaul

Fort Knox Gets Energy Efficiency Overhaul
Here's a short video highlighting the energy improvement initiatives at Fort Knox Military Reservation. Installations were done by Nolin Electric Cooperative....

Green Business Programs Help Promote Businesses Locally

Green Business Programs Help Promote Businesses Locally
Green business programs are gaining traction within communities - chances are there's one near you. Here's a promo video from one such ...

Umbra Co-Founder Discusses Sustainable Design

Umbra Co-Founder Discusses Sustainable Design
Les Mandelbaum, co-founder and president of Umbra, discusses sustainability from the floor of the International Contemporary Furniture Show....

Green Consumer Electronics From Greener Gadgets

Green Consumer Electronics From Greener Gadgets
An overview of some portable, renewable energy powered electricity generating gadgets shown at Greener Gadgets 2008....

Coal Mine Turns Methane Into Emissions Credits

Coal Mine Turns Methane Into Emissions Credits
A coal mine in southern Poland is earning CO2 emissions offsets by converting excess methane into heating fuel and electricity and selling ...

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....

Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’

Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that he is listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered ...

HP Exec On Product Takeback

HP Exec On Product Takeback
Renee St. Denis discusses how Hewlett-Packard's corporate processes and design strategies have evolved in dealing with e-waste, or outdated and discarded PCs, ...

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
Big companies are pushing research to bring greener products to market, according to this CNN video....

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
As plastic bags litter China's countryside the government is putting the pressure on the manufacturers, good news for China's cloth bag industry....

Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs

Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
CEOs believe that customer expectations around corporate social responsibility are increasing, and CSR will play an important role in differentiating an enterprise ...

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
Jonathan Cohen from DuPont explains the aims of his company in developing sustainable solutions for the packaging industry. DuPont recently announced ...

Today's News

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

Lee Company Installs Solar Power System

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

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

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

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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