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Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First
Ford has become the first automaker to join The Climate Registry. Ford recently became the first U.S. auto ...

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions
The American Trucking Associations has launched the first-ever industry-wide environmental sustainability program under the banner Trucks Deliver a ...

Airlines Add Minutes To Flights, Save Millions On Fuel

Airlines Add Minutes To Flights, Save Millions On Fuel
Airlines are slowing down and saving millions on fuel, The Associated Press reports. Southwest Airlines says it will save ...

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′
In its second annual stewardship report, REI has established a 2009 goal to reduce emissions by one-third from ...

US Airlines Could Face $9 Billion Carbon Bill In 2020

US Airlines Could Face $9 Billion Carbon Bill In 2020
Proposed U.S. emission-trading legislation could leave airlines with a $9 billion annual bill in carbon costs, FlightGlobal.com reports. Should ...

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money
As gas prices rise, companies are driving for bigger energy savings in every corner, USAToday reports. Companies and business ...

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas
As part of a joint venture, The Linde Group and Houston-based Waste Management have announced they will build the ...

Clear Channel Sets Up SmartBike Bicycle Sharing In DC

Clear Channel Sets Up SmartBike Bicycle Sharing In DC
Beginning next month, SmartBike DC will make 120 bicycles available for rent at 10 spots in central locations ...

Enterprise Launches $1M Carbon Offset Initiative

Enterprise Launches $1M Carbon Offset Initiative
Enterprise Fleet Management, a division of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, launched an environmental initiative designed to help its customers reduce greenhouse ...

Major Aviation Industry Players Ink Climate Change Pledge

Major Aviation Industry Players Ink Climate Change Pledge
At the third annual Aviation and Environment Summit in Geneva April 22 and 23, 2008, airlines, airports, and aircraft ...

Dole Offsets Transport of Bananas and Pineapples in Costa Rica

Dole Offsets Transport of Bananas and Pineapples in Costa Rica
Dole says that its operating division in Costa Rica will purchase carbon offsets from the Costa Rican Government's program ...

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint
The entire lifecycle of every copy of Discover Magazine produced costs 2.1 pounds in Co2 emissions, the magazine ...

GM CEO: 2010 Volt Deadline Will Be ‘Down To The Wire’

GM CEO: 2010 Volt Deadline Will Be ‘Down To The Wire’
General Motors is running "down to the wire" as it readies its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt for a ...

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks
Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells. The hybrid ...

HP Packaging To Carry EPA SmartWay Logo

HP Packaging To Carry EPA SmartWay Logo
HP is the first company to receive approval from the U.S. EPA to have the agency's SmartWay logo displayed ...

MTA Sustainability Initiatives Include Solar, Green Roofs

MTA Sustainability Initiatives Include Solar, Green Roofs
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning a series of sustainability initiatives. The initiatives are part of the ...

Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020

Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020
Deutsche Post World Net plans to reduce its carbon footprint 30 percent by 2020. DHL's parent says it's the ...

Shipping Industry Floats Emissions Tax

Shipping Industry Floats Emissions Tax
Transport costs for raw materials are likely to rise due to a new marine fuel tax planned by the ...

South Lags Behind Rest Of US On Hybrid Car Interest

South Lags Behind Rest Of US On Hybrid Car Interest
Fifty-nine percent of car shoppers have purchased or would consider purchasing a hybrid as their next car, according to a survey by ...

Transport Industry Least Prepared For Climate Change

Transport Industry Least Prepared For Climate Change
Aviation, healthcare, tourism, transport, oil and gas and the financial services sector all feature in the "danger zone" in a report ...

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Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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