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Utility Outlines Environmental Benefits From Merger

Utility Outlines Environmental Benefits From Merger
In testimony filed with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, the investor group Puget Holdings supports Puget Sound Energy's ...

Online Auction Site For Environmental Intellectual Property Launched

Online Auction Site For Environmental Intellectual Property Launched
The opening bell has rung for a virtual trading floor for tangible and conceptual intellectual property at Lynxstreet.com. According to the online ...

Big Investors Call On U.S. Congress To Tackle Climate Issues

Big Investors Call On U.S. Congress To Tackle Climate Issues
More than 50 leading investors, including the nation's largest public pension fund and the world's largest listed hedge fund, ...

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement
Duke Energy has invested $100 million in commercial-scale rooftop solar panels, VentureBeat reports. The Charlotte, N.C.-based electric utility will ...

Google, Others Give eSolar $130 Million Boost

Google, Others Give eSolar $130 Million Boost
eSolar has closed $130 million in funding from Idealab, Google.org, Oak Investment Partners, and other investors for the ...

Clean Energy Windfall In Texas

Clean Energy Windfall In Texas
Channel 4 News is in Roscoe, Texas where a new clean energy boom is providing hard up farmers with a real windfall. ...

Clean Tech Deals Grab $3 Billion In 2007 VC Funding

Clean Tech Deals Grab $3 Billion In 2007 VC Funding
Venture capitalists invested a record $3 billion in 221 "clean technology" deals worldwide in 2007, a 43 percent increase ...

Firms Investing in Greener China

Firms Investing in Greener China
The U.S. government is sponsoring a program that pays American and other environmental-services companies to reduce emissions from China's factories, according to ...

Environment Creating New Economy

Environment Creating New Economy
Worldwatch Institute has issued a report claiming that climate change and other environmental problems are essentially inventing a new sustainable ...

Earth Class Mail Plans Retail Stores, Raises $13 Million

Earth Class Mail Plans Retail Stores, Raises $13 Million
Earth Class Mail has closed $13.3 million in Series A funding, according to CNET.  Ignition Partners of Bellevue, Washington, ...

PV Market Expected To Reach $32 Billion by 2012

PV Market Expected To Reach $32 Billion by 2012
The global market for photovoltaics is expected to be worth $12.9 billion in 2007 and is expected to increase to over $32.3 ...

Solar Venture Investing Trends

Solar Venture Investing Trends
Venture capital investment in the solar industry has gone from a few deals in 2004 to potentially reach $1B in 2007, vaulting ...

Diamond Launches Green Packaging Initiative

Diamond Launches Green Packaging Initiative
Diamond Packaging has launched a sustainable packaging initiative, dubbed the "Diamond greenbox initiative," that seems to play directly to suppliers facing ...

RecycleBank Gets $2 Million Investment From Coke

RecycleBank Gets $2 Million Investment From Coke
RecycleBank, a rewards program that motivates people to recycle, has received a $2 million investment from Coca-Cola to help the company ...

Silicon Valley Execs Get Behind Plug-In Hybrids

Silicon Valley Execs Get Behind Plug-In Hybrids
By early next year, 100 Silicon Valley executives will be driving plug-in hybrids, The mercury news reports. That will more than ...

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies
AlwaysOn has released a list of private greentech companies that it feels are transforming the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, ...

CNET: Clean Tech’s 5 Dirty Truths

CNET: Clean Tech’s 5 Dirty Truths
Misperceptions have punctuated major industrial and IT changes and, according to a CNET article by Kirk Washington, they've taken hold today, as the ...

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World
The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in ...

Start-Ups See Trading RECs As Way To Profits

Start-Ups See Trading RECs As Way To Profits
Phoenix Motorcars' electric vehicles will generate "zero-emission credits" from California that could add up to serious money for the start-up, CNET ...

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies
Environmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO ...

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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

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

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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