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Corporate Express Covers Colorado Energy Needs With RECs

Corporate Express US, part of the Dutch-based Corporate Express NV, is purchasing renewable energy credits to cover 100 percent of the energy needs for its Colorado facilities, including its headquarters in Broomfield and Northglenn, customer service...

Published 11-15-2007 1:23 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Feature, Business-to-Business, Facilities, U.S., credits, Clean Energy, Contracts & Installations

IBM To Provide Customers With Energy Efficiency Certificates

IBM is giving customers a way to earn energy efficiency certificates for reducing data center energy use and possibly sell them on the carbon market. IBM says this is the first time a corporation has helped its clients earn and trade credits in return...

Published 11-05-2007 10:47 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Products & Planning, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., credits, Hi-Tech, Economics, Electricity

Carbon Offset Quality Initiative Launched

Six non-profits involved in greenhouse gas reduction policy have announced the formation of the Offset Quality Initiative. Members include The Climate Trust, California Climate Action Registry, Environmental Resources Trust, Greenhouse Gas Experts Network...

Published 11-05-2007 9:25 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, Climate, Business-to-Business, credits

Yahoo Picks Offset Projects

Yahoo has decided to offset its 250 thousand metric ton carbon footprint from 2006 through hydropower in rural Brazil and wind turbines in India, according to Chris Page, Yahoo's director of climate and energy

Published 11-02-2007 11:06 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Environmental Affairs, Business-to-Business, U.S., credits, Hi-Tech, Clean Energy, Asia, Wind Energy, Hydroelectric, South America

Japan May Need Tax To Avoid Potential Carbon Credit Bill

Japan needs to implement measures to lower greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet Kyoto targets and avoid a bill of as much as $10.5 billion to buy carbon credits in global markets, according to a report by the finance ministry's fiscal system...

Published 11-01-2007 10:15 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Feature, Business-to-Business, credits, Policy & Law, Economics, Asia, Spending

AIG To Buy 310,000 Carbon Credits

American International Group plans to provide funding to support projects that reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions, through the purchase of CO2 emission offset credits, in the Xinjiang and Sichuan provinces of China. The proposed projects

Published 10-31-2007 10:56 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Feature, Business-to-Business, U.S., credits, Financial, Contracts & Installations

New Tool Measures Carbon Footprint Of Producing TV Commercials

The Versus cable TV network and Brooklyn Brothers ad agency have produced a campaign of TV commercials in a carbon-neutral manner, AdAge reports. Working with ERM, a London-based environmental-engineering firm, Brooklyn Brothers has created a software...

Published 10-17-2007 8:55 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Feature, Business-to-Business, Research & Technology, credits, Marketing, Clean Energy

Curtis Packaging Goes ‘100% Carbon Neutral’

Connecticut-based Curtis Packaging claims that they are the first 100 percent carbon neutral printing and packaging company in North America. During the last five years Curtis says it has been identifying, assessing, and reducing internal aspects that...

Published 10-10-2007 11:29 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Feature, Business-to-Business, Facilities, credits, Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Contracts & Installations, Electricity

Apple Tree Natural Gas Plant Captures Vent Stack CO2

Blue Source is capturing vent stack CO2 flowing from the Apple Tree natural gas processing plant in La Veta, Colorado, to an oil recovery site which the company says is preventing millions of cubic feet of CO2 from entering the atmosphere every day. Prior...

Published 10-10-2007 7:32 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, Business-to-Business, credits, Storage

Cantor Adds Voluntary Carbon Markets To CantorCO2e Trading Platform

CantorCO2e has launched a web-based marketplace, emissionstrading.com, providing information about multiple domestic and international projects creating carbon dioxide equivalent offsets. Registered users can see prices, quantities, and brief descriptions...

Published 10-05-2007 11:01 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, Business-to-Business, credits, Financial, Economics, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Geothermal, Wave Energy, Hydroelectric

Catalyst Paper, Doubletree Win Awards For Green Efforts

Nonprofit Metafore announced the winners of the second annual Metafore Innovation Awards at the Green Power Corporate Climate Response Conference. The award theme was products and services "that reduce or offset climate change through new methods...

Published 10-02-2007 8:58 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Feature, Major Players, Environmental Affairs, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, U.S., credits, North America, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Awards, Industry Events

Dell Plans To Go Carbon Neutral By Next Year

Dell says it will become the first PC maker in the industry to make its worldwide operations carbon neutral by next year, Associated Press reports. For every pound...

Published 09-26-2007 2:08 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, Business-to-Business, Facilities, U.S., credits, Business-to-Consumer, Hi-Tech, Wind Energy

Fleishman-Hillard Launches Sustainability Practice, Will Go Carbon Neutral

PR firm Fleishman-Hillard has launched a Sustainability Communications practice designed to counsel clients on policy and work with them to articulate views and actions on green issues. In addition to launching the new practice, Fleishman-Hillard pledged...

Published 09-20-2007 2:43 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, credits, Marketing, Business Services

5 Questions To Ask Before Launching A Green Promo

Using green promotional benefits – incentives that have environmental benefit - to drive acquisition, is gaining popularity, Marketing Green reports. A few examples...

Published 09-18-2007 12:38 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, Business-to-Business, credits, Marketing, Business-to-Consumer

ConocoPhillips To Offset Emissions In Exchange For Refinery Expansion

ConocoPhillips has agreed to an “unprecedented global warming reduction plan” to off-set greenhouse gases caused by the expansion of its Northern California oil refinery, according to California...

Published 09-13-2007 3:35 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, Facilities, U.S., credits, Policy & Law, Government, Oil & Gas

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