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Colby College Achieves Carbon Neutrality

April 8, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Colby College has achieved carbon neutrality, two years before its target date. The small Waterville, Maine school says it achieved neutrality by switching to 100-percent renewable electricity starting in 2003 and using sustainably harvested wood biomass instead of oil as its primary fuel for heat and hot water beginning in ... Read more »

Microsoft Outlines Progress on Internal Carbon Price

February 13, 2013February 13, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Microsoft has used funds collected over the past six months from its internal carbon offset fee to invest in renewable energy projects, including wind, hydro and biomass, as well as provide grants to help drive efficiency measures throughout its operations, according to the software company. Microsoft began charging an internal ... Read more »

Microsoft Commits to Carbon Neutrality in FY 2013

May 8, 2012May 8, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Microsoft will charge an internal carbon offset fee starting in fiscal year 2012-2013 in its effort to be carbon neutral beginning July 1, according to the company’s blog. The carbon price will be based on market pricing for renewable energy and carbon offsets, and Microsoft will apply it to operations ... Read more »

Harbec Aims for ISO 50001, Carbon Neutrality with Carbon Connect

February 24, 2012February 24, 2012 by Leon Walker

Harbec, a maker of machine tools and injection-molded plastic parts, is seeking certification under ISO 50001, and has chosen to deploy Carbon Connect carbon accounting application from Epicor, writes Search Manufacturing ERP. Harbec sees the need to improve its data management to reach ISO 50001, and the company told Search ... Read more »

DPD to Deliver Carbon Neutral Packages by July

February 14, 2012February 15, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

Logistics company DPD has announced plans to move to completely carbon-neutral shipping, at no extra cost to customers. The German shipper, a subsidiary of GeoPost and La Poste, says it is working to reduce the carbon dioxide it produces and will offset the remaining CO2 generated in its five biggest ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Rainforest Alliance, LEED, Clean Truck Program, Green Mill Index

January 5, 2012January 5, 2012 by Leon Walker

Caribou Coffee coffees and espresso are now all sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, and it is the first major U.S. coffeehouse to meet this mark. Caribou Coffee last April announced its goal to source 100 percent of the coffee across all products from Rainforest Alliance farms by the end ... Read more »

Carbon-Neutral Banks ‘Aren’t Greener’

October 19, 2011October 19, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Banks are fooling investors and the public with false claims of carbon neutrality, according to a report from carbon data publishing site Ecodesk. In the Sustainability & Finance report, Ecodesk says that companies purchasing carbon credits are “buying their way” into a perception of sustainability, and that those banks claiming ... Read more »

Dell to Revamp GHG Measurement; No Longer Carbon-Neutral

September 7, 2011September 8, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Dell’s changing business model is forcing the company to craft a new way of measuring its carbon footprint, the company notes in its 2011 corporate responsibility report, which shows that the computer manufacturer is no longer carbon neutral. Dell says that server hosting is becoming an important part of its ... Read more »

NYSE Euronext Goes Carbon-Neutral

August 5, 2011August 5, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

NYSE Euronext has become the first carbon-neutral global exchange operator, the company has announced. The parent company of markets including the New York Stock Exchange said it reached carbon neutral status for 2010 through energy efficiency and conservation efforts, plus purchase of Green-e certified renewable energy certificates and carbon offsets. ... Read more »

ING Air Travel Up 25%; Firm Stays Carbon Neutral

April 5, 2011April 6, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

ING Group’s share of electricity from renewables held steady from 2009 to 2010 at 62 percent, but the company last year saw a significant rise in travel-related emissions, according to its 2010 corporate responsibility report. The global financial firm – which in 2011 announced that it would separate its banking ... Read more »

GlaxoSmithKline Sets Carbon Neutrality Goal for 2050

March 30, 2011March 30, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

GlaxoSmithKline has set a target to achieve carbon neutrality across its value chain by 2050, as part of a new environmental strategy launched in the company’s 2010 Corporate Responsibility report. The carbon neutrality target means that in 40 years, there will be no net greenhouse gas emissions from GSK’s raw ... Read more »

After Carbon Neutrality, News Corp Sets New GHG and Energy Targets

March 2, 2011March 2, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

News Corporation, the owner of Fox and the Wall Street Journal, has achieved carbon neutrality, according to chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. In a letter to employees yesterday, Murdoch said the company became carbon neutral in December, achieving a goal set in 2007. The letter was published on the same ... Read more »

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