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GHG Reporting Practices Of Most Industries Overlook 75% Of Emissions

GHG Reporting Practices Of Most Industries Overlook 75% Of Emissions
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are urging companies to broaden their carbon footprint calculations with a new ...

Marriott To List Green Actions Of Individual Hotels

Marriott To List Green Actions Of Individual Hotels
Marriott recently told Economically Sound it will be publishing the hotel chain's environmental policies on their Web site ...

CCX Trades RGGI Contracts

CCX Trades RGGI Contracts
The Chicago Climate Futures Exchange offered its first exchange-traded Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative contracts last week, Reuters reports. ...

Harrington Dumps Sunoco Stocks for Lack of Sustainability

Harrington Dumps Sunoco Stocks for Lack of Sustainability
Harrington Investments says it is divesting of Sunoco Corporation stocks after several years of unproductive engagement with the ...

C.W. Brown Sells Excess Solar Energy To Con Ed

C.W. Brown Sells Excess Solar Energy To Con Ed
C.W. Brown Inc. became the first business in New York state to take advantage of a recent bill signed ...

NY To Regulate GHG Emissions

NY To Regulate GHG Emissions
New York's Environmental Board has approved regulations to enact a regional "cap and trade" program aimed at reducing GHG ...

Retailers Eye Sun for Energy Savings

Retailers Eye Sun for Energy Savings
Wal-Mart Stores, Kohl's, Safeway and Macy's have already installed solar panels on roofs of their ...

Clean Energy Attracts Investors Despite Struggling Economy

Clean Energy Attracts Investors Despite Struggling Economy
While the world's economy is struggling clean energy companies have continued to attract record investments, with global investments in ...

Aon Latest Insurer To Launch Green Building Program

Aon Latest Insurer To Launch Green Building Program
Aon launched the Aon Green Building Property Program this week. As an enhancement to the company's Global Property ...

EU & UN to Link Carbon Credit Register in October

EU & UN to Link Carbon Credit Register in October
The European Commission and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed this week their carbon credit registries ...

Most Companies Skip Getting CSR Reports Assured

Most Companies Skip Getting CSR Reports Assured
Three thousand companies are expected to publish a CSR report in 2008, but only about 750 will include a ...

Method Provides Incentives for Supply Chain to Reduce Emissions

Method Provides Incentives for Supply Chain to Reduce Emissions
Method Products has teamed up with NativeEnergy to create a carbon offset model that gives financial incentives for Method's ...

Campbell’s Cuts 1.5 Million Gallons of Water Per Day

Campbell’s Cuts 1.5 Million Gallons of Water Per Day
In Campbell's latest corporate sustainability report (PDF) the company says it has reduced water consumption by 1.5 million ...

Japanese Steel Makers to Cut GHG Emissions by 30%

Japanese Steel Makers to Cut GHG Emissions by 30%
The Japan Iron and Steel Federation and six other major steel makers announced they will jointly develop technologies for reducing about 30 ...

Climate Exchange Strikes China Emissions Trading Deal

Climate Exchange Strikes China Emissions Trading Deal
Reuters reports that Climate Exchange announced  a pact with Chinese National Petroleum Corp. Assets Management and Tianjin City ...

Ski Industry Releases Environmental Report

Ski Industry Releases Environmental Report
The National Ski Areas Association has  released its 8th Sustainable Slopes Annual Report. Over 75 percent of resorts, ...

Florida Green Energy Program Ends Over Spending Controversy

Florida Green Energy Program Ends Over Spending Controversy
Florida's Public Service Commission recently voted to end an $11.4 million green energy promotion program which overwhelmingly funded marketing ...

KB Home To Build Only Energy Star Standard Homes

KB Home To Build Only Energy Star Standard Homes
KB Home released its first sustainability report and announced that starting in 2009, every home built by the ...

Dell Releases Corporate Responsibility Report

Dell Releases Corporate Responsibility Report
Dell has released its corporate responsibility report for FY 2008 (PDF). Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions increased ...

Coke Cuts Water Use Ratio 3% In 2007

Coke Cuts Water Use Ratio 3% In 2007
Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's largest marketer, distributor, and producer of Coca-Cola products, has published its third Corporate Responsibility and ...

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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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