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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 ...

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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 ...

GM’s Wagoner: U.S. Needs 15,000 More Ethanol Stations

GM’s Wagoner: U.S. Needs 15,000 More Ethanol Stations
The U.S. needs more stations that sell ethanol, claims GM CEO Rick Wagoner in this article.  Currently, there are about 1400 ...

British Airways Reprimanded Over Emissions Claims

British Airways Reprimanded Over Emissions Claims
British Airways has been reprimanded for making false claims about the environmental impact of the expansion of a third runway at ...

Presentation On Greening Corporate Fleets

Presentation On Greening Corporate Fleets
Nigel Underdown, speaking on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust, at the 2007 Fleet News' Hit for Six Conference....

Daimler Takes Orders From NYC, Ottawa For Over 1000 Hybrid Buses

Daimler Takes Orders From NYC, Ottawa For Over 1000 Hybrid Buses
Daimler Buses North America has received orders totaling 1,052 Orion VII Next Generation diesel-electric hybrid transit buses from some of ...

Amtrak Launches Carbon Offset Program For Passengers

Amtrak Launches Carbon Offset Program For Passengers
Amtrak has launched a program that lets passengers offset the carbon emissions footprint generated by their train travel. Offsets start at $3, ...

Northwest Pledges $1 Million To Nature Conservancy, Launches ‘EarthCares’

Northwest Pledges $1 Million To Nature Conservancy, Launches ‘EarthCares’
Northwest Airlines is making a $1 million donation to The Nature Conservancy, in equal payments, over the next three years. The gift ...

NYC Approves Replacing Crown Victorias With Hybrids

NYC Approves Replacing Crown Victorias With Hybrids
New York City's Taxi & Limousine Commission yesterday approved a deal that would replace the city's iconic Crown Victoria taxicabs ...

Report From Bali - Hotel Waste Piles Up

Report From Bali - Hotel Waste Piles Up
The Four Seasons, Bali Inter-Continental and Ritz-Carlton are among a handful of resorts that are doing it right when it comes to ...

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has released a short-term action plan (PDF) to begin reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas ...

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Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Green was an obvious color to hang the environmental renaissance on. It was a reclaiming of the old pejorative “greenies” and “treehuggers.” ... continue »

An Eco-Stimulus Package for Our Economy
Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
California’s Leadership in 21st Century Energy Technology
Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Ninety-two percent of respondents to The Global Facility Management Association's recently released Green Practices Study (PDF) say that they are ...

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Consumers Loyal To Brands That Support Good Cause During Recession
‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
California Clean Tech Open Awards
How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

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Marketing

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives

Emissions

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Hi-Tech

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

Efficiency

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

CSR Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

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