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Roundup – Sysco, Energy Star, Danfoss

June 14, 2010June 14, 2010 by Paul Nastu

Delaware Raises $2.1 Million From Auction of CO2 Delaware Online Grants Available for Phila. Business Energy Savings Philadelphia Business Journal Sysco Helps Fund Hydrogen Forklift Study Clean Technica Energy Star Rating for Enterprise Data Storage Servers Urgently Needed Smart Energy News Annie Farrell, Expert on Sustainable Garden and Farming Practices, ... Read more »

Roundup – ADM, Hitachi, LA Fitness, M Real

June 11, 2010 by Paul Nastu

M Real Conducts Sustainable Packaging Research Pulpaper News New Map App Lets You Chart Oil Spill ESRI ADM Receives $99 million for Carbon Capture Project Herald Review Steelcase Grows Its Own Packaging Fast Company LA Fitness Tackles Carbon Emissions SourceWire Hitachi Consulting Joins EPA Climate Leaders Industry-Government Program MarketWatch Neb. ... Read more »

Roundup – Starwood, BPA, FSC, Sky Vegetables

June 8, 2010June 8, 2010 by Paul Nastu

How Compostable Disposables Reduce Waste Water As Alternative Energy Is it Easy Being Green in a Recession? Sudesca Before BPA: Sustainable Food and Packaging History Just Means Small Private Forests Certified Sustainable Greenopolis Starwood Launches “Sustainable Meeting” Guidelines for All North American Hotels Businesswire Sky Vegetables Wants to Turn Supermarket ... Read more »

Roundup – Apple’s Solar iPhone, UK, CDC, Carbon Calculators

June 4, 2010 by Paul Nastu

Apple Patents Solar iPhone Inhabitat CDC Invests $50m in Sustainable Forestry New Energy World Network Who Will Pay for UK’s Green Economy? BBC It’s Not Easy Being Clean Control Global Building Insulation for Sustainable Design, Energy Savings Continuing Education Center The Future of ESG Reporting: Do Accountants Get It? Just ... Read more »

Virgin, Alaska Airlines, Continental Get Green Nod From Greenopia

June 3, 2010June 3, 2010 by Paul Nastu

Virgin, Alaska Airlines and Continental won the top tthree spots in Greenopia’s rankings of the most environmentally friendly airlines as the website updated its rankings yesterday. Virgin won points for its young fleet, only 2 years old on average, making it more fuel efficient, and has installed winglets on its ... Read more »

Xcel Energy on Track to Cut CO2 Emissions 15% by 2020

May 28, 2010 by Gina Roos

Xcel Energy has exceeded its 2009 goal to achieve energy savings of 450 GWh for all operating companies, reducing energy consumption by 573 GWh thanks to demand side management programs, according to the company’s 2009 corporate responsibility report. In 2009, Xcel reduced electricity consumption in its corporate facilities by nearly ... Read more »

Cemex Meets Goals for Alternative Fuels, Raw Material Substitution Ahead of Schedule

May 10, 2010 by Gina Roos

Cemex has cut CO2 emissions per ton of cement produced by 20.7 percent relative to its 1990 baseline and is on track to meet its 25 percent reduction target by 2015, according to the company’s 2009 Sustainable Development Report. Climate change initiatives implemented by Cemex have resulted in the prevention ... Read more »

Cemex, RTI to Demo CO2 Capture Technology

March 2, 2010 by Gina Roos

Cemex USA has been awarded $1.1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate a dry sorbent CO2 capture technology at one of its cement plants in the U.S. The commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration project is expected to store up to 1 million ... Read more »

Caterpillar Puts Weight Behind $1.5B FutureGen CCS Project

February 9, 2010February 9, 2010 by Gina Roos

Caterpillar plans (PDF) to join the FutureGen Alliance to build a $1.5 billion near-zero emissions coal-fired power plant that will produce hydrogen and electricity while capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide underground in Mattoon, Illinois, reports Reuters. The FutureGen project is expected to prove the technical and economic feasibility of producing ... Read more »

Australia, Belgium Find More Cases of Carbon Fraud

January 7, 2010 by Gina Roos

More carbon fraud cases are popping up around the globe including Australia and Belgium as government watchdog organizations step up efforts to monitor the nascent green business sector. As an example, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says it is closely watching the green business sector, reports SmartCompany. ACCC ... Read more »

Turning CO2 into Natural Gas

January 7, 2010January 6, 2010 by Paul Nastu

Japanese researchers aim to use bacteria to help convert carbon dioxide trapped below the ocean into natural gas, reports Yahoo, via AFP. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology has been perfecting a method to activate a type of bacteria that exists deep in the earth’s crust, and use ... Read more »

East Coast Targeted for Underwater CO2 Storage

January 6, 2010January 6, 2010 by Gina Roos

Researchers say buried volcanic rocks, or basalt along the coasts of New York, New Jersey and New England, and as far south as Georgia and South Carolina, might be ideal reservoirs to store carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and other industrial sources, reports Physorg. A study released in the ... Read more »

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