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Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020

April 14, 2008April 14, 2008 by Paul Nastu

Deutsche Post World Net plans to reduce its carbon footprint 30 percent by 2020. DHL’s parent says it’s the first major company in its industry to set a quantifiable climate protection target. The goal will also apply to subcontractors. To reach its goal, about 90 percent of the Group’s air ... Read more »

Shipping Industry Floats Emissions Tax

April 11, 2008April 16, 2008 by Paul Nastu

Transport costs for raw materials are likely to rise due to a new marine fuel tax planned by the shipping industry as a way to combat climate change, Reuters reports. A formal agreement on the tax is about one year away. A decision is likely in 2009, ahead of a ... Read more »

Fiji Water Releases Carbon Footprint Of Products, Challenges Industry

April 9, 2008January 9, 2018 by Paul Nastu

Fiji Water has decided to disclose the carbon footprint of its products. To that end, the company has joined the Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, the first privately-owned U.S. company to do so. The CDP is working with Fiji to get suppliers to disclose their emissions. Fiji was ... Read more »

How to Navigate the Environmental Media – Part 2

April 6, 2008September 15, 2010 by Mark Grundy

Part Two – Battle for the Skies Virgin America’s Richard Branson retreated to his own island in the Caribbean three weekends ago with Larry Page (Google), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems) and Tony Blair to discuss the creation of his climate change “war room.” He was in effect ... Read more »

Court Stops Calif. From Limiting Ship Emissions

March 2, 2008March 2, 2008 by Paul Nastu

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that California’s new regulation that reduced emissions from ships is preempted te Clean Air Act, which allows California to set its own standards for various vehicles and engines if it receives waivers from the EPA, The Los Angeles Times ... Read more »

EA Logistics Offers ‘Carbon-Neutral Freight’

February 7, 2008 by Paul Nastu

EA Logistics has launched Delivered GrEAn, a free carbon offset program for corporations that use the company’s freight services. Through the program, EA Logistics computes the emissions for each shipment and offsets them by purchasing credits from Carbonfund.org. A recent article covered the major emissions problem caused by the shipping ... Read more »

Shipping Major Emissions Problem

February 5, 2008February 13, 2008 by Paul Nastu

A new study by Energy Futures finds that U.S. ports are a major source of pollution and GHG emissions in their cities and that progress on the problem has been slow. The ten-month study analyzed the cities of America’s top ten container ports. Container shipments have risen 80 percent in ... Read more »

Sun, 10 Other IT Firms To Build Energy-Saving Underground Data Center

November 14, 2007October 4, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Sun Microsystems and 10 other IT firms plan to build an underground data center in Japan, Nikkei reports. It will consume up to 50 percent less power than conventional facilities by using groundwater as coolant. Over $400 million is being invested in the project. For the project, Sun will offer its Project Blackbox method using shipping containers. Specifically...

Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Costing Marketers Money

October 1, 2007October 4, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Wal-Mart's sustainability initiative to downsize packaging is costing manufacturers money, AdAge reports. It could cost Procter & Gamble, part of Wal-Mart's effort to concentrate certain products, $200 million by one estimate. Wal-Mart's packaging initiative pressures marketers to invest substantially upfront to reduce packaging...

ICS: Global Regulations Needed To Cut Ship Emissions

September 10, 2007 by Paul Nastu

The chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping says the UN must enforce global regulations if the industry is to cut emissions, Reuters reports. Some industry groups have called for a complete ban on high sulfur marine fuels, in favor of running the world's merchant fleet on cleaner-burning distillate fuels. But ICS...

Nestle Waters’ CEO Counters Bottled Water Criticism

September 5, 2007 by Paul Nastu

Kim Jeffery, president and CEO of Nestle Waters North America, has written an opinion piece for Hearst Newspapers countering recent criticism of the bottled water industry. "Those who propose bans on bottled water don't acknowledge that bottled water represents less than one percent of the municipal solid waste that ends up in landfills," Jeffery writes. "Bottled water is only one

Sony Launches Free Recycling Program

August 17, 2007December 14, 2010 by Paul Nastu

Sony has launched a recycling program that allows consumers to recycle all Sony-branded products for no fee at 75 Waste Management Recycle America eCycling drop-off centers throughout the U.S...

Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020

Shipping Industry Floats Emissions Tax

Fiji Water Releases Carbon Footprint Of Products, Challenges Industry

How to Navigate the Environmental Media – Part 2

Court Stops Calif. From Limiting Ship Emissions

EA Logistics Offers ‘Carbon-Neutral Freight’

Shipping Major Emissions Problem

Sun, 10 Other IT Firms To Build Energy-Saving Underground Data Center

Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Costing Marketers Money

ICS: Global Regulations Needed To Cut Ship Emissions

Nestle Waters’ CEO Counters Bottled Water Criticism

Sony Launches Free Recycling Program

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