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Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism

Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism
Two days after Royal Dutch Shell posted a 25 percent increase in first quarter profit to a record $9.1 ...

Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World

Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World
In a depiction of some of the world's largest energy projects, Forbes.com takes readers to Bahrain, where, a few ...

First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design

First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design
Interesting tour of the green features of First Federal Savings Bank in Mishawaka, Ind....

Aspen Aims To Be Carbon Neutral, Mulls Tough Choices

Aspen Aims To Be Carbon Neutral, Mulls Tough Choices
In its quest to be greener, The Aspen Skiing Company is asking some tough questions in its question to ...

Safeway Unveils Two New Solar-Powered Stores, Releases CSR Report

Safeway Unveils Two New Solar-Powered Stores, Releases CSR Report
As part of its Earth Day celebration, Safeway Inc., one of the largest retail users of renewable energy, unveiled ...

CDM Projects Prevent 135 Million Tonnes Of CO2

CDM Projects Prevent 135 Million Tonnes Of CO2
The Clean Development Mechanism has taken some heat lately, but here's some positive press. Projects to reduce carbon ...

GE, Gamesa, Siemens, Vestas Talk Up Renewable Energy Tax Credit

GE, Gamesa, Siemens, Vestas Talk Up Renewable Energy Tax Credit
Senior executives from four of the world’s top wind turbine manufacturers - GE Energy, Gamesa, Siemens and Vestas - joined today in ...

Senate Extends Renewable Energy Tax Credits, Hurdles Remain

Senate Extends Renewable Energy Tax Credits, Hurdles Remain
The U.S. Senate has voted to extend tax credits for wind-power and solar-energy projects, adding them to a major ...

HEB Powers Stores With Wind Energy

HEB Powers Stores With Wind Energy
Texas supermarket chain HEB plans to run 46 of its stores in San Antonio and Bexar County on 10 percent windpower and ...

Ford To Install Third Wind Turbine At UK Plant

Ford To Install Third Wind Turbine At UK Plant
Ford is adding a third wind turbine at its Dagenham Diesel Centre in the UK to power the installation ...

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. ...

Dell Powers Headquarters With Green Energy

Dell Powers Headquarters With Green Energy
Dell is now powering 100 percent of its 2.1 million square-foot global headquarters campus with 100 percent green power, ...

Texas, FPL, GE, Xcel Winners In Latest AWEA Rankings

Texas, FPL, GE, Xcel Winners In Latest AWEA Rankings
Wind energy leaders in most categories held onto their #1 positions in the American Wind Energy Association's annual rankings of U.S. wind ...

P&G In Talks To Run Plant On Wind Power

P&G In Talks To Run Plant On Wind Power
Procter & Gamble has reached an agreement in principle to connect P&G's paper products manufacturing plant in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania ...

Chrysler Tests Wind Potential At Chelsea Proving Grounds

Chrysler Tests Wind Potential At Chelsea Proving Grounds
Chrysler is erecting a 26-story meteorological tower at its Chelsea Proving Grounds to determine if high-level winds are suitable ...

Steelcase Buys Naming Rights To Wind Farm

Steelcase Buys Naming Rights To Wind Farm
Steelcase will purchase all the renewable energy credits produced by a new 10 megawatt wind farm in Panhandle, ...

SC Johnson Powers Plant With Wind Power

SC Johnson Powers Plant With Wind Power
SC Johnson says it will power 46 percent of its second largest North American manufacturing plant in Bay ...

(Dis)Orders of Magnitude

(Dis)Orders of Magnitude
Human beings are good at numbers, but only within a small range. Most of us can imagine how big "One Hundred" ...

3Tier Unveils Global Wind Map For Developers

3Tier Unveils Global Wind Map For Developers
Forty percent of the world's land mass has wind speeds at more than 6 m per second, according to Seattle-based 3Tier, ...

BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans

BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans
In his first strategy presentation as BP's CEO, Tony Hayward said the company has received little, if any, uplift ...

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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
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Seventy-one percent of North Americans want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands they buy - but the majority of ...

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eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

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

As plastic bags litter China's countryside the government is putting the pressure on the manufacturers, good news for China's cloth bag industry....

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Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
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

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

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

Hi-Tech

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Efficiency

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Manufacturing

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

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

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

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

Major Players

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas

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