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Starbucks Helps Growers Enter Carbon Credit Biz

Starbucks Helps Growers Enter Carbon Credit Biz
Some Fortune 500 companies are getting involved in ecosystem services. That is, finding ways to repay nature for the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities

What is the No.1 event-related global communications opportunity for your carbon messaging of the next 4 years? Here are a couple of clues… •    ... continue »

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
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

The 3PL industry has made significant strides in establishing environmental responsibility as part of broader corporate visions, with companies reporting numerous internal ...

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Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many
Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste

Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste

The U.S. beer maker Miller has a goal of zero waste in their breweries and is currently recycling 99.9% of all packaging ...

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Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Green Inc.: Conservation Organizations Compromised By Corporate Dollars

Office Depot Targets Eco-Conscious Consumers in Europe

Emissions

Ericsson Unveils Wind-Powered Tower Tube

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Constellation Wines Installing 1.2 Megawatt Solar System

Hi-Tech

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

European Data Centers Face Energy Crisis

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Efficiency

EPA Announces First WaterSense Partners of the Year

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

Wal-Mart’s Packaging Scorecard Drives Sustainability, Cuts GHG Emissions

Manufacturing

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

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Gap Flips Switch On 1 Megawatt Solar Power System

USDA, DOE Unveil Plans to Accelerate Sustainable Biofuels Development

EU Votes For Tougher Carbon Laws

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

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

Critics Say Energy Star Standards Too Lax

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

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