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Clif Family Winery Adds $0.25 Per Bottle To Offset CO2 Emissions

Clif Family Winery Adds $0.25 Per Bottle To Offset CO2 Emissions
Clif Family Winery partnered with NativeEnergy to launch Green My Shipment, which adds $0.25 per bottle to help ...

Farmers Against Proposed ‘Cow Tax’

Farmers Against Proposed ‘Cow Tax’
This summer, the EPA issued an “advanced notice of proposed rulemaking” that called for public comments on the idea ...

Consumer Goods Industry Needs Green Sourcing To Avoid Potential 47% Earnings Hit

Consumer Goods Industry Needs Green Sourcing To Avoid Potential 47% Earnings Hit
Companies in consumer goods sectors that do not implement strategies to mitigate the risks posed by environmental pressures could ...

U.N. Suspends One Of Its Largest Auditors of Clean Energy Projects

U.N. Suspends One Of Its Largest Auditors of Clean Energy Projects
The U.N. climate change body recently suspended Norway's DNV, one of the largest auditors of clean energy projects, for ...

Insurers, Investors Ponder Risk of Carbon Credits for Forests

Insurers, Investors Ponder Risk of Carbon Credits for Forests
The United Nations is promoting paying landowners to let forests grow as a viable way to fight climate change, ...

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Broadway Launches Green Initiatives

Broadway Launches Green Initiatives
The Broadway theater community has outlined a series of goals as part of a new environmental initiative. “Broadway ...

Club Owners: Partying Can Be Green Too

Club Owners: Partying Can Be Green Too
Greenhouse, a new club in downtown Manhattan, is putting green on top of its agenda, New York Times ...

U.K. Gov. Reaps $81 M in First Auction of CO2 Permits

U.K. Gov. Reaps $81 M in First Auction of CO2 Permits
Europe held its first auction of carbon dioxide permits last week. The U.K. government reaped about $81 million from ...

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans
Hyundai Motor America and Carbonfund.org unveiled the Genesis Forest Project at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show and ...

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits
Best Buy has started selling renewable energy credits at 1,000 of its stores. The “Green Your Phone” product is loaded ...

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use
The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) recently launched at the London Stock Exchange. It is being touted as the ...

Atlanta Establishes First ‘Carbon Neutral Zone’ in the U.S.

Atlanta Establishes First ‘Carbon Neutral Zone’ in the U.S.
Verus Carbon Neutral and Antje Kingma, founder of Eco-Bella, say they have established the first “Carbon Neutral Zone” ...

FedEx Cuts Aircraft Emissions, Increases Vehicle Fuel Efficiency

FedEx Cuts Aircraft Emissions, Increases Vehicle Fuel Efficiency
FedEx released its 2008 Global Citizenship Report (PDF) and announced that it plans to reduce aircraft emissions and ...

IBM Reports 4% Energy Savings, Net CO2 Emissions Up 5%

IBM Reports 4% Energy Savings, Net CO2 Emissions Up 5%
IBM released its 2007-2008 Corporate Responsibility Report (PDF) and reported that it exceeded its corporate goal of ...

Shaklee To Offset 100% GHG Emissions

Shaklee To Offset 100% GHG Emissions
Shaklee Corp. will offset 100 percent of its annual direct and indirect GHG emissions through the purchase of 12,000 ...

Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’

Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
While many companies today attract attention and acclaim when they announce they have achieved carbon neutrality, I'd argue that we are misleading ...

Small Music Labels Going Green, Are Major Labels Lagging Behind?

Small Music Labels Going Green, Are Major Labels Lagging Behind?
While major labels such as EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group have been slow to ...

Major Changes In Store For REC Markets

Major Changes In Store For REC Markets
The latest issue of Carbon Market Analyst North America from Point Carbon addresses what it says is "the significant market confusion ...

Clean Currents Offers USGBC Members 25% Discount On RECs

Clean Currents Offers USGBC Members 25% Discount On RECs
Clean Currents LLC announced that it has entered an agreement with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to ...

Goldman, Blue Source Partner to Market GHG Emission Reductions

Goldman, Blue Source Partner to Market GHG Emission Reductions
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Blue Source LLC announced they have formed an alliance to market U.S. ...

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Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

In a recent EL column, John Rooks, president of The Soap Group, a company that focuses on sustainability communications, wrote that ... continue »

Sustainability - An Economic Imperative in the Current Economy
12 Steps To A ‘Greener’ Supply Chain
Server MPG – It’s Time for Action
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Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

Eighty percent of corporate sustainability executives surveyed from across North America plan to maintain or increase levels of sustainability-related spending in 2009, ...

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Dell, Apple, Microsoft, HP Perceived as U.S. Green Tech Leaders
Future Consumer Involvement in Environmental Protection
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable
UN Climate Change Conference Day 4 Press Briefing

UN Climate Change Conference Day 4 Press Briefing

Yvo de Boer gave an update on a number of areas under discussion, including how to increase funding for Adaptation, particularly for ...

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UN Climate Change Conference Day 3 Press Briefing
United Nations Climate Change Conference Press Briefing
BMW, Vattenfall Begin Real-World Electric Car Test Next Month

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Marketing

Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

Wal-Mart Creates Green Jobs Council

AIG Offers Green Building Coverage Against ‘Adverse Publicity’

Emissions

MBA Students Help Companies Identify Cost Savings, Cut Pollution

U.S. GHG Emissions Up 1.4% In 2007

Big Three Automakers Make Green Promises In Return For Bailout

Hi-Tech

U-M Hopes Green Computing Will Cut Costs, Emissions

Dell, Apple, Microsoft, HP Perceived as U.S. Green Tech Leaders

Tips On Dealing With IT Equipment After Layoffs

Efficiency

U.K. Introduces Legally-Binding Framework to Cut GHG Emissions

Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

GE Suspends Development Of High-Efficiency Incandescent Bulbs

Manufacturing

Ash Grove Cement Sues North Texas Cities Over ‘Green’ Resolutions

12 Steps To A ‘Greener’ Supply Chain

Plastic Waste Turned Into Armored Panels, Fleece Jackets

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Clif Family Winery Adds $0.25 Per Bottle To Offset CO2 Emissions

Farmers Against Proposed ‘Cow Tax’

Consumer Goods Industry Needs Green Sourcing To Avoid Potential 47% Earnings Hit

CSR Reports

Cisco Saves $3M By Cutting Emissions, Waste From Supply Chain

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

Major Players

Banks Launch The Climate Principles

U.N. Suspends One Of Its Largest Auditors of Clean Energy Projects

Sustainability - An Economic Imperative in the Current Economy

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