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Green Groups Get Wrist Slap Over Misleading Ads

Green Groups Get Wrist Slap Over Misleading Ads
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has told two environmental agencies, Airport Watch and enoughsenough, to alter an ad campaign ...

EU To U.S. Airlines: Buy Carbon Credits Or Face Fewer Flights

EU To U.S. Airlines: Buy Carbon Credits Or Face Fewer Flights
U.S. airlines must join the EU emissions trading scheme or an equivalent system in the U.S. or they could ...

Continental, Boeing, GE To Partner On Biofuel Flight

Continental, Boeing, GE To Partner On Biofuel Flight
Continental Airlines, Boeing and GE Aviation have announced plans to conduct a biofuels demonstration flight in the first half ...

Virgin Drops Plan To Cut CO2 By Towing 747s

Virgin Drops Plan To Cut CO2 By Towing 747s
Virgin Atlantic has canceled plans to tow Boeing 747s at the end of runways - which the airline pitched ...

Airlines Fight Back On Climate Debate

Airlines Fight Back On Climate Debate
At a conference on airline emissions in London, some of the world's biggest airlines accuse environmentalists of distorting the climate impact of ...

S.F. Cabbies Foot Bill For Green Taxi Ordinance

S.F. Cabbies Foot Bill For Green Taxi Ordinance
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has followed New York City's lead by initially approving an ordinance that will require taxi cab ...

Virgin Launches GM Fuel Cell SUV Limo Service

Virgin Launches GM Fuel Cell SUV Limo Service
Virgin Atlantic will offer passengers Chevrolet Equinox Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars as part of its upper class limo service. Initially passengers in ...

Virgin Flies On Biofuel

Virgin Flies On Biofuel
Virgin Atlantic has flown one of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets on biofuel from London Heathrow to Amsterdam. The ...

Coke Touts Recycling Efforts At Daytona 500

Coke Touts Recycling Efforts At Daytona 500
Coca-Cola promoted its recycling efforts at the Daytona 500. The company debuted a new 24-foot interactive trailer that ...

Branson Calls For Climate ‘War Room’

Branson Calls For Climate ‘War Room’
At a UN climate meeting, Richard Branson, head of Virgin Group, offered to set up an "environmental war room" ...

Green Travel Trending Up For Corporations

Green Travel Trending Up For Corporations
A joint ACTE/KDS survey (PDF) indicates that 59 percent of respondents companies now have CSR charter, and that the same percent ...

Harrah’s Making Environmental Choices

Harrah’s Making Environmental Choices
Gwen Migita, director of social responsibility at Harrah's Entertainment, says that over the past seven years, environmental initiatives have ...

All-Hybrid Taxicab Fleet Begins Operations In Washington D.C.

All-Hybrid Taxicab Fleet Begins Operations In Washington D.C.
EnviroCAB, which says it runs the nation's first all-hybrid taxicab fleet, opened for business in greater Washington, D.C. ...

Airbus Completes First Civil Aircraft Test Flight With Alternative Fuel

Airbus Completes First Civil Aircraft Test Flight With Alternative Fuel
An Airbus A380 aircraft has successfully completed the world’s first ever flight by a commercial aircraft using a liquid ...

Air France Spending Billions to Reduce CO2

Air France Spending Billions to Reduce CO2
Air France said it plans to spend almost $3 billion a year through 2020 on modernizing its fleet of ...

Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow

Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow
The vast majority of in-market new-vehicle shoppers do not see diesel as a likely mainstream fuel source in the future, according to ...

Marriott, Hilton,Other Hotels Going Green

Marriott, Hilton,Other Hotels Going Green
A 2007 survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives and KDS revealed that only one-third of corporate ...

Super Bowl Powered Completely With Green Energy

Super Bowl Powered Completely With Green Energy
This year's Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, will be the first ever powered completely with renewable energy by using solar, wind and ...

Cruise Ships Worse For Environment Than Planes

Cruise Ships Worse For Environment Than Planes
Cruise ships emit three times more CO2 than airplanes, reports the Telegraph. In its annual report, Carnival, which comprises 11 ...

BART Ups Green Ante

BART Ups Green Ante
The BART Board of Directors voted unanimously to lift the price cap on the purchase of alternative energy, reports the San ...

Today's News

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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