Honeywell Expands Energy-Efficiency Program for Motels
Honeywell has been awarded a $4.5 million contract extension for its energy-efficiency program Cool Control Plus, currently in use in over 150 small hotels and motels throughout northern and central...
View ArticleWal-Mart Rolls Out Packaging Scorecard
Wal-Mart’s packaging scorecard, that rates suppliers on their sustainability, has gone live. The idea was unveiled at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006 and put through a trial phase for the past...
View ArticleMajor Corporations Cooperate For Sustainability
Corporations working together? Sounds counterintuitive, but that’s exactly what this vnunet.com article says is happening, especially when it comes to sustainability. According to Paul Simpson of the...
View ArticleFox Sports Crew Driving Hybrids At Super Bowl
Fox Sports broadcast and tech professionals visiting Phoenix for the Super Bowl are driving hybrids supplied by hybrid rental car company EV Rental Cars, EV announced.Fox used hybrids from EV at the...
View ArticleGreenPrint Covered On CNN
Last month, CNN’s Miles O’Brien did a report on GreenPrint, a computer program that is marketed as a way to save paper.
View ArticleAirbus Completes First Civil Aircraft Test Flight With Alternative Fuel
An Airbus A380 aircraft has successfully completed the world’s first ever flight by a commercial aircraft using a liquid fuel processed from gas (Gas to Liquids – GTL) in the first stage of a test...
View ArticleIBM Launches New Center For Water Management in the Netherlands
IBM will establish a Global Center of Excellence for Water Management in Amsterdam. IBM says that the center will help IBM’s public sector clients develop prediction and protection systems for...
View ArticleNYC Green Car Service Launches Hybrid-Only Fleet
NYC Green Car, a luxury car service that uses only hybrid vehicles, has launched service in New York City. Its fleet consists of Toyota Camry and Lexus cars, but the company deemed the Prius too small...
View ArticleDolby, Kodak, Sundance and Kerasotes Helping to Green the Film Biz
In ways great and small, the film industry is greening up the business, according to this Film Journal article. Sundance, famous for its festival, has a theater in Madison, WI, and one soon to open in...
View ArticleRolls-Royce Wants to Commercialize Fuel Cell
Rolls-Royce is looking at how to commercialize its fuel cell business, The Independent reports. John Rose, the CEO, is considering bringing in outside partners to invest in the cell, known as the SOFC,...
View ArticleJPMorgan Greens HQ
JPMorgan Chase is making its 50-story headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Manhattan more environmentally-friendly, Reuters reports, and it’s doing it ten stories at a time, starting at the top with...
View ArticleGreen Mountain Shows Green is Profitable
Green Mountain Coffee, a corporation poster child for “doing good and doing well,” has posted another impressive quarter, reports The Motley Fool. The company’s net income increased 20 percent to $2.9...
View ArticleDoes GM Live Up To The Green Claims Of Its Super Bowl Ads?
Has GM really become the green car company its Super Bowl ads claimed? That’s the question Rick Newman posed in this U.S. News & World Report article, and the answer, according to the article, is:...
View ArticleMajor Magazines Launch Recycling Initiative
Major magazine publishers teamed up with New York City last week to launch a program called ReMix – Recycling Magazines is Excellent. The goal is for people to recycle their magazines instead of...
View ArticleCompany Values Most Important to Japanese Consumers
Results from Natural Marketing Institute’s LOHAS Consumer Trends Database show that Japanese consumers are more likely to indicate that they would choose products from companies whose values are like...
View ArticleCitigroup, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley Unveil ‘Carbon Principles’
Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have announced new standards that will make it harder for companies to get financing for the construction of coal-fired power plants in the U.S., the Wall...
View ArticleGreen Grid Delivers New IT Efficiency Framework
At its first ever technical forum, The Green Grid says it will deliver the framework for new strategies, methodologies and process recommendations to help IT managers assess data center energy and get...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons To Green IT
As business ramps up for 2008, sustainability is top of mind for C-level executives and IT managers. It is now a major focus for organizations, and execs are considering how it pays, how it doesn’t and...
View ArticleToyota Plants Trees
Toyota Material Handling will plant 20,000 trees – one for every 8-Series lift truck sold last year – in national forests damaged by fire or other natural causes. The actual planting will be done...
View ArticleTexas Instruments, MIT Develop Energy-Efficient Microchip
Texas Instrument and MIT researchers unveiled a new energy-efficient microchip that could eventually be used in cell phones, implantable medical devices and sensors. The key to the chip is that it...
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