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Allstate Pays To Offset Customer Auto Emissions

Allstate Insurance has launched "Allstate Green," which the company bills as an "eco-friendly insurance option" that lets customers offset auto emissions by funding reforestation and clean energy projects in the U.S. With each...

Published 11-13-2007 9:34 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, Major Players, U.S., credits, Automotive, Financial, Business-to-Consumer

Virgin Shames Passengers Into Buying Carbon Offsets

While other airlines have concentrated on selling carbon offsets to passengers when flights are booked, Virgin has unveiled a plan to sell offsets from the aisle during flights. The idea, according to an...

Published 11-12-2007 9:32 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Europe, Products & Planning, Feature, Major Players, Global, credits, Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Travel

Target Brand Sports Green-e & FSC Mixed Source Logos

Target Stores Archer Farms brand is using the Green-e certified label and new paperboard packaging certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, Sustainable Is Good reports. The Green-e logo and the FSC Mixed Source logo appear on Archer Farms Organic...

Published 11-05-2007 1:08 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Feature, Major Players, Environmental Affairs, U.S., credits, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Recycling

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

Enterprise Offers Voluntary Carbon Offset Program To Customers

Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car, owned by the Taylor family of St. Louis, have announced a voluntary customer carbon offset program - the largest of its kind in the industry, according to the company, and the first consumer...

Published 10-31-2007 11:55 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, Major Players, Sustainability, U.S., credits, Automotive, Marketing, Business-to-Consumer

NY Plan Caps Power Plant Emissions, Auctions Pollution Credits

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has unveiled regulations designed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from New York power plants by 10 percent over the next 12 years, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports. They are to take effect early next year after a series of...

Published 10-25-2007 11:49 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Feature, Major Players, credits, Policy & Law, Government, Economics, Electricity

Timberland Launches TV Ads, Offsets Campaign Emissions

Timberland is running TV ads for its new Earthkeepers boots. The company has estimated the carbon-dioxide emissions associated with the energy used to broadcast the ad, and is offsetting them with a wind farm in western Massachusetts, MediaPost reports...

Published 10-22-2007 1:17 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Feature, Major Players, credits, Marketing, Business-to-Consumer

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

Volvo Opens Carbon Neutral Vehicle Production Plant

Volvo Trucks has opened its carbon neutral (what the company has labeled 'CO2 Free') plant in Ghent, Belgium. The factory produces 35,000 trucks annually. "Our ambition is to make all our plants CO2-free plants and Ghent is the first,"...

Published 09-25-2007 10:53 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Sustainability, Facilities, credits, Automotive, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Contracts & Installations, Electricity, Biofuel, 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

Safeway To Install Solar Power Panels On 23 Stores

Safeway plans to power 23 California stores with solar energy. The company installed solar panels atop a newly renovated Safeway Lifestyle store in Dublin, California and plans to extend the program...

Published 09-14-2007 11:58 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Feature, Major Players, Sustainability, Facilities, credits, Business-to-Consumer, Efficiency, Clean Energy, Contracts & Installations, Electricity, Construction, Refitting, Solar Energy

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

UN Launches ‘CDM Bazaar’

A cost-free CDM Bazaar was unveiled by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to encourage an exchange of information among buyers, sellers and service providers involved in the clean development mechanism, AFP reports . Under CDM...

Published 09-10-2007 8:26 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Major Players, Global, Climate, Research & Technology, credits, Business Services

Schwarzenegger Meets With German Minister To Discuss Carbon Trading

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, plan to begin talks today about how California could work with the European Union to create a system that would allow companies to buy and sell credits for emission...

Published 08-30-2007 11:34 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Climate, Business-to-Business, U.S., credits, Policy & Law, Government, Economics, Utilities

Volkswagen To Offset Projected Emissions Of Cars

Volkswagon of America plans to offset the carbon emissions of projected consumer use. From September 1, 2007, until January 2, 2008, every vehicle sold by Volkswagen will have its carbon emissions offset for the first year of ownership. In addition, the...

Published 08-30-2007 10:04 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, Major Players, Sustainability, U.S., credits, Automotive, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Pricing

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