2010
GE would double its research spending on cleaner technologies
to $1.5 billion annually and double its sales of environment-friendly
products to $20 billion annually. Meanwhile, GE will reduce
its emission of greenhouse gases by 1 percent by 2012;
without this action, emissions would have increased 40
percent.
EPA
Recognizes Largest-Ever Corporate Green Power Purchase
- EPA's Green Power Partnership, launched in 2001, works
with more than 700 partner organizations that voluntarily
buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts
associated with conventional electricity use and to promote
the development of new green power resources nationwide.
Gary
Bauer started his San Francisco based limousine service
in the late eighties while he was still in college. Since
then the company has grown nationwide offering limo services
and corporate transportation services. The latter involves
providing shuttle services to companies so that employees
don't have to drive to work. Since 2005 they have been
providing services to Google with thirty electric and
CNG-fueled shuttles giving rides to over 2,500 of their
employees daily to their Silicon Valley offices.
McGraw-Hill
Construction Greening of Corporate America SmartMarket
Report - McGraw-Hill Construction Greening of Corporate
America SmartMarket Report is a 40-page printed report
(available as hard copy or PDF) that presents new research
and intelligence on activities of the largest corporations
in America around sustainability and green building.
McGraw-Hill Construction conducted targeted market research
to obtain groundbreaking new information on the latest
green market trends in Corporate America. The result is
never-before seen intelligence, including the following...
Corporate
Green Power Effort Expands to Europe - Some of the
largest companies in the world this week announced they
have increased their purchases of renewable energy. The
World Resources Institute (WRI) and members of its Green
Power Market Development Group announced 185 new MW of
renewable energy purchases and projects, bringing the
total number of MW under contract to 360 -- the average
size of a coal-fired power plant...
Save
the Planet... Recycle That Fax Machine! - I just received
a bit of information that details some of the simpler
ways that an enterprise can go green...
The
Compact - 1) to go beyond recycling in trying to counteract
the negative global environmental and socioeconomic impacts
of U.S. consumer culture, to resist global corporatism,
and to support local businesses, farms, etc. -- a step,
we hope, inherits the revolutionary impulse of the Mayflower
Compact; 2) to reduce clutter and waste in our homes (as
in trash Compact-er); 3) to simplify our lives (as in
Calm-pact)
CompanyEarth
- Consider yourself to be earth minded and eco friendly?
Same here which is why whenever we come across some planetary
related news we like to share. Hopefully you’ll
enjoy getting our random ramblings as much as we get a
kick out of constructing them.
The
Green Lifestyle - My dear friend Nickie asked in my
last post "What is the point of buying organic sheets?"
Which is a very good question, my dear!
World
Changing - works from a simple premise: that the tools,
models and ideas for building a better future lie all
around us. That plenty of people are working on tools
for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected.
That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive
change are already present. That another world is not
just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces
together.
Green
Technology -"Consider this: When you carry out
your trash at home ... next collection day, you'll be
sending more trash to landfills than the entire Subaru
manufacturing plant in Lafayette, Indiana (SIA). ... was
the first auto assembly plant to achieve zero landfill
status - nothing from its manufacturing efforts goes into
a landfill. It's all reused and recycled."
Recycling
CFL's
We all know that these compact flourescent lightbulbs
are great for saving energy. The drawback is that they
contain mercury and need to be disposed of properly. No
big deal, just make sure they don't get (gulp!) thrown
in with your regular household trash.
Rainforest
Alliance Bestows Corporate Green Globe Award on Caribou
Coffee...
