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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 ...

Winter Sports In A Warming World

Winter Sports In A Warming World
With global temperatures rising, the world of winter sports is getting hit hard, according to this expose from AlterNet, which discusses ...

Commuters’ Body Heat Keeps Office Building Toasty

Commuters’ Body Heat Keeps Office Building Toasty
A new Swedish recycling project will use the body heat from a quarter of a million people who pass through ...

Fairmont Hotels Measuring Its Carbon Footprint

Fairmont Hotels Measuring Its Carbon Footprint
Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and WWF have announced a new partnership to measure Fairmont's carbon footprint and set a CO2 reduction ...

KPMG Employee Travel Program Promotes Trains Over Planes

KPMG Employee Travel Program Promotes Trains Over Planes
KPMG UK is launching a program that promotes greener travel and provides money for the charity Help the Hospices, reports the ...

Today's News

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Comments on the Language of Marketing Sustainability. In today's culture of over-parsed lexicon, where we argue the meaning of ... continue »

Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
Environmental Compliance: Initiatives Broaden, Budgets Up - Complete Apps Still Few in Number
Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green

Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green

According to a green survey from Rackspace Hosting (PDF), 44 percent of respondents are willing to pay more for green products ...

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EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
Most Americans Have Made Lifestyle Changes To Help The Environment
Climate Change And Public Health

Climate Change And Public Health

Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, M.D. is interviewed by EnviroTV about the connection between climate change and public health....

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Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
Stern Helps Launch New Carbon Ratings Agency
The Bottom Line

Marketing

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

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Canada Ad Watchdog Releases Green Marketing Guidelines

Emissions

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Wal-Mart’s New Milk Jug Cuts Costs, Customers Cry Over Spilt Milk

Hi-Tech

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

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

Sony At Top, Nintendo, MS At Bottom Of Greenpeace Electronics Rankings

Efficiency

Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips

AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education

Harvard, Yale, Others Embrace Green Design

Manufacturing

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Maintaining Product Quality Alongside Environmental Performance

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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