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Xerox Introduces ‘Green’ Paper

Xerox's new environmentally friendly, cut-sheet "High-Yield Business Paper" isn't as white or as smooth as the kind most businesses run through their copiers and laser printers, and it yellows badly as it ages, The Wall Street Journal reports. But compared with average 20-pound bond paper, Xerox says it requires half as many trees and fewer chemicals and less energy to

‘Green’ Vodka Hits Market

McCormick Distilling Co. and Premier Beverage Co. have launched 360 Vodka, which the companies are calling "the world’s first environmentally-friendly vodka." The distillery was recently upgraded to reduce fossil fuel energy use by 21 percent and meets or exceeds all U.S. EPA air and water quality standards for modern distilleries, according to the companies...

Google Launches Plug-In Hybrid Program, Turns On Solar Power System

Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. has announced the RechargeIT initiative that aims to accelerate the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. As part of this initiative, Google.org awarded $1 million in grants and announced plans for a $10 million request for proposals to fund development, adoption and commercialization of plug-ins, fully electric cars and related vehicle-to-gridtechnology. In addition,

Search Giants Guard Carbon Footprint Data

At the Climate Savers Computing Initiative press conference earlier this week, Google vp for operations Urs Holzle declined to reveal the company's overall greenhouse gas emissions when the question was asked by a Forbes' reporter, according to a Green Wombat article. "Our carbon footprint is actually not that big...but we’re not quite ready to tell you what we’re doing." "Our

AEP Gets Carbon Credits From Cows

American Electric Power, a utility based in Columbus, Ohio, and the biggest coal burner in the U.S., is paying Environmental Credit Corp., of State College, Pa., to put plastic tarps over lagoons holding livestock waste on farms to block methane from reaching the atmosphere, The Wall Street Journal reports. The AEP project, which is set to include about 200 farms,

Intel, Google Head Industry Initiative For Greener Computers

Intel and Google have joined with Dell, EDS, the Environmental Protection Agency, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, PG&E, World Wildlife Fund and more than 25 additional organizations have launched the Climate Savers Computing Initiative with the goal of saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by setting aggressive new targets for energy-efficient computers and components. The group has set a...

‘Avoided Deforestation’ Gets World Bank Investment

The World Bank got G8 support to start a $250 million investment fund to reward countries such as Indonesia, Brazil and Congo for "avoided deforestation," The Wall Street Journal reports. But companies and governments aren't likely to put much money into the fund unless they sense that saving trees will qualify as a means of generating emission "credits" on the


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