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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 ...

Keys To Greener Supply Chains

Keys To Greener Supply Chains
Companies are rushing to create green supply chains, basing purchasing decisions not only on the value that vendors deliver, ...

How to Navigate the Environmental Media - Part 2

How to Navigate the Environmental Media - Part 2
Part Two - Battle for the Skies Virgin America's Richard Branson retreated to his own island in the Caribbean three weekends ago with ...

Desire To Be Thought Leader Drives Green Efforts

Desire To Be Thought Leader Drives Green Efforts
Forty-one percent of companies that participated in a recent Aberdeen study, Building a Green Supply Chain: Social Responsibility for Fun and ...

18 States Sue EPA For Failing To Act On Greenhouse Gases

18 States Sue EPA For Failing To Act On Greenhouse Gases
Eighteen states are suing the EPA in an attempt to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling ...

Tyson Releases CSR Report

Tyson Releases CSR Report
Tyson Foods has issued a corporate responsibility report (PDF). Absolute emissions from electricity have risen from 2.69 million metric ...

California Cuts Quotas For Zero-Emission Vehicles

California Cuts Quotas For Zero-Emission Vehicles
The California Air Resources Board has voted to lower the number of battery-powered and hydrogen fuel cell ...

E85 Fuels 2008 American Le Mans Series

E85 Fuels 2008 American Le Mans Series
Reece Nanfito, senior director of marketing for the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council, talks to Green Fuels Forecast about E85 fueling most ...

UPS Adds 167 CNG Delivery Trucks

UPS Adds 167 CNG Delivery Trucks
UPS has added 167 Compressed Natural Gas delivery vehicles to its fleets in Texas, Georgia and California. It ...

Zap Increases Payload With XL Truck

Zap Increases Payload With XL Truck
Electric vehicle maker Zap is introducing a new electric truck for fleets with a greater payload rating. Production ...

Arithmetic Of Food Miles Flawed

Arithmetic Of Food Miles Flawed
Thousands of people in the UK have bought in to the idea that eating local produce can help save ...

Software Calculates Carbon Footprint What-Ifs

Software Calculates Carbon Footprint What-Ifs
ILOG has released a Carbon Footprint extension to its LogicNet Plus XE supply-chain application, InfoWorld reports. The software can map out several ...

Toyota Backs Plant-A-Tree Program On Facebook

Toyota Backs Plant-A-Tree Program On Facebook
Toyota has partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to create a Facebook application called Tree Planter. Users ...

Soaring Diesel Prices Spur Interest In Hybrid Trucks

Soaring Diesel Prices Spur Interest In Hybrid Trucks
New EPA standards and $100-a-barrel oil are creating demand for hybrid big rigs, garbage trucks and dump trucks, ...

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 ...

Study Maps ‘Mindset’ Of Hybrid Car Owners

Study Maps ‘Mindset’ Of Hybrid Car Owners
Although many new-vehicle buyers may want to purchase an environmentally friendly vehicle, just 11% are “very willing” to pay more to ...

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Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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