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Neenah Paper To Use Biomass At Whiting Mill

Neenah Paper To Use Biomass At Whiting Mill
Construction is underway at Neenah Paper's largest mill to build a biomass fuel system that will convert wood and ...

Blues Plans Incorporate Green Buildings & Policies

Blues Plans Incorporate Green Buildings & Policies
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and Highmark have plans to employ ...

Bombardier Wins Hybrid Locomotive Contracts Worth $485 Million

Bombardier Wins Hybrid Locomotive Contracts Worth $485 Million
Bombardier has won orders worth $485 million to supply hybrid locomotives for the transport bodies in New Jersey and ...

Merck Plans 7-Acre Solar Power System

Merck Plans 7-Acre Solar Power System
Merck & Co., recently announced that its world headquarters in Whitehouse Station, N. J., will have the largest ...

Performance Management Systems Improve Energy Efficiency at Kodak

Performance Management Systems Improve Energy Efficiency at Kodak
As new environmental regulations impose numerous constraints on companies and significant implications for their financial health, Martin Jetté of ...

Duke Energy Updates Solar Panel Plans

Duke Energy Updates Solar Panel Plans
Duke Energy Carolinas updated its plan for investment in commercial-scale rooftop solar panels, which we reported on in June, and announced ...

Diageo To Run Distillery On Bioenergy

Diageo To Run Distillery On Bioenergy
Diageo - which makes leading global brands including Johnnie Walker, Tanqueray and Smirnoff - plans to build a bioenergy ...

Solar System Completed at Universal Forest Products

Solar System Completed at Universal Forest Products
Universal Forest Products recently announced that the design and installation of a 500 kilowatt DC solar electric system ...

JC Penney Installing Solar Panels, Wind Turbines

JC Penney Installing Solar Panels, Wind Turbines
JC Penney is planning solar and wind power projects that will supply electricity to 10 stores and one ...

North Face Announces more Green Initiatives

North Face Announces more Green Initiatives
The North Face is celebrating its 40th anniversary by celebrating mother nature, and is coming out with a ...

U.S. Leads In Wind Power Production

U.S. Leads In Wind Power Production
Although the Congress' failure to extend the production tax credit for the renewable energy industry threatens to slowdown further development, U.S. wind ...

Applied Materials Gets 5-Year Contract From Green Energy Technology

Applied Materials Gets 5-Year Contract From Green Energy Technology
Applied Materials announced this week that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology to support the ...

Plant Powered by Chicken Manure

Plant Powered by Chicken Manure
At Beijing Deqingyuan Chicken Farm Waste Utilization plant, three million chickens are doing their part to help their ...

Crystal Rock’s Solar System Up and Running

Crystal Rock’s Solar System Up and Running
Crystal Rock, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vermont Pure Holdings, announced this week that the company's 300kW solar photovoltaic ...

Dell Reaches Carbon Neutral Goal 5 Months Ahead Of Plans

Dell Reaches Carbon Neutral Goal 5 Months Ahead Of Plans
Dell Computer announced this week that it reached its goal of becoming "carbon neutral" five months ahead ...

DOE Assessments Help 3 Plants Save Over $1.5 Million Combined

DOE Assessments Help 3 Plants Save Over $1.5 Million Combined
The Department of Energy released three new case studies of manufacturing plants participating in its Save Energy Now ...

Johnson Controls Helps Build ‘Green Olympics,’ Wins Big Fed Contracts

Johnson Controls Helps Build ‘Green Olympics,’ Wins Big Fed Contracts
Johnson Controls was awarded many Olympics related contracts in China and since then has been helping the nation realize ...

NewPage Cuts Energy Use with Lighting Retrofit

NewPage Cuts Energy Use with Lighting Retrofit
In late 2006, NewPage Corp. installed a high-efficiency, high intensity fluorescent system to replace the older system in its ...

Sacred Heart Medical Center Designed with Green in Mind

Sacred Heart Medical Center Designed with Green in Mind
The new Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Oregon is touting itself as one of the nation's greenest ...

North Face Plans Solar Energy System

North Face Plans Solar Energy System
The North Face is planning a 1MW solar electricity system at its ...

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Environmental Supply Chain Planning – Expanding Accountability

Environmental Supply Chain Planning – Expanding Accountability

Regardless of where one stands on the subject of climate change, we are all impacted by rising energy prices. Carbon-based energy fuels ... continue »

Green Communications: 3 Strategies For Getting Past The Crunch
Beyond Tele-Conferencing: How the IT Sector Can Become a Legitimate Climate Solutions Provider
Navigating the Environmental Media Pt 4: Carbon Messaging
Ecolabeling – Bridging The Gap
Consumers Pay Attention To Energy Star Labels

Consumers Pay Attention To Energy Star Labels

The "Energy Star" label is extremely or very important to 68 percent of consumers, according to the fourth EcoPinion Survey from ...

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Green Retailers Six Key Focus Areas
Half of U.S. Companies Going Green
64% Of Decision Makers Say Green Image Is Good For Business
Wood Key Cards To Debut During DNC

Wood Key Cards To Debut During DNC

Sustainable Cards, producer of wood hotel key cards, says their cards will debut in Denver hotels during the Democratic National Convention. Sustainable ...

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SMEs and the Environment
Oracle CIO Mark Sunday On Project Sequoia
GM Shows Off Volt Production Model…Kind Of
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Automakers Introduce ‘EcoDriving’ Program

Ad Agency To Timberland: Environmental Causes Distracting From Products

Neenah Paper To Use Biomass At Whiting Mill

Emissions

In UK, Exporting Recovered Plastic Bottles, Paper To China Cuts Emissions

Environmental Supply Chain Planning – Expanding Accountability

CCX Trades RGGI Contracts

Hi-Tech

Fairchild Semiconductor Expands ‘Green’ Effort with Global Team

Oracle CIO Mark Sunday On Project Sequoia

IBM Launches Eco Data Center in Second Life

Efficiency

Blues Plans Incorporate Green Buildings & Policies

Commercial Kitchens Get Green Certification Program

IBM Launches ‘Green Sigma’ Consulting Service

Manufacturing

Lite-On Tech to Reduce CO2 Emissions 10% by 2011

Green Efforts Hampered by Broken Supply Chains

Recycling and Reuse Programs Top List Of Manufacturers Green Investments

Carbon Offsets/RECs

American Assets Plans To Beat 2030 Challenge

Wal-Mart Facing Tough Green Questions

NY To Regulate GHG Emissions

CSR Reports

Most Companies Skip Getting CSR Reports Assured

Campbell’s Cuts 1.5 Million Gallons of Water Per Day

KB Home To Build Only Energy Star Standard Homes

Major Players

Google & G.E. Want Cheaper Renewable Energy

Big Brands Tout Social Consciences On YouTube

Marriott To List Green Actions Of Individual Hotels

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