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DHL Program Lets Customers Offset Shipping Emissions

DHL has launched a carbon neutral shipping service, DHL GoGreen Express, in the Asia Pacific region. DHL says the program is part of the company’s GoGreen range of carbon-neutral and low-carbon shipping options that are available in Europe and were...

Published 03-10-2008 3:05 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Europe, Major Players, Business Services, Asia, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Foster’s Offsets Emissions Of ‘Cascade Green’

Foster’s is offsetting all of the carbon emissions of its new lager, Cascade Green.The company says that the lager is brewed at the Cascade Brewery from locally produced ingredients. Packaging has been designed to minimize greenhouse gas emissions...

Published 03-08-2008 5:19 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Australia, Water, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs, Retail & Restaurants

ClimateCheck Sets Up Shop In U.S.

Canada-based ClimateCHECK, a company that provides greenhouse gas management and products has opened a San Francisco office. ClimateCHECK says it has worked with a number of North America companies and organizations to measure, verify and account for...

Published 02-27-2008 10:47 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Business-to-Business, U.S., North America, Business Services, Government, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Do Eco-Friendly Reward Programs Make Banks Look Too Green?

Financial institutions realize that adding green cards to their product lines boosts their own corporate environmental credentials. But, on the other hand, banks are reluctant to market green credit cards because they don’t want to appear “too...

Published 02-07-2008 12:52 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Major Players, U.S., Financial, Business-to-Consumer, Business Services, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

CCES Creates New Certification for GHG, CO2 Emissions

Carbon Credit Environmental Services has applied for an Intellectual Property Patent to help companies assess their emissions from cradle to grave and earn a certification that will state their product has been offset by CCES through “Green Alternative...

Published 02-07-2008 11:10 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Business-to-Business, U.S., Marketing, Government, Manufacturing, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Air France Spending Billions to Reduce CO2

Air France said it plans to spend almost $3 billion a year through 2020 on modernizing its fleet of aircraft and other measures to improve its environmental credentials, reports WSJ. Air France chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta said his airline plans to reduce...

Published 01-29-2008 11:52 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Europe, Major Players, Travel, Consumption, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Online Eco-Label Directory Launched

Canadian start up Big Room Inc.says it has launched the world’s biggest independent directory of ecolabels. Available through an online database at ecolabelling.org, Big Room provides information for consumers, producers and procurers, on 285 global...

Published 01-28-2008 1:06 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: North America, Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Consumption, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

TerraPass Helps Businesses Chart Emissions

To better help businesses of all kinds measure the carbon emissions of their daily operations, TerraPass has launched the Carbon Balanced Business Program. TerraPass is launching this program with a group of businesses that includes Expedia Inc., Architectural...

Published 01-17-2008 4:45 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Business Services, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Carbon Neutral TV Commercials Produced

The Versus cable TV network and Brooklyn Brothers ad agency have produced a campaign of TV commercials in a carbon-neutral manner. We wrote a story on this in October, here’s an AdAge Video on it.

Published 01-07-2008 10:56 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Europe, U.S., Marketing, Today's Video, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Internet Retailers Get New Green Shipping Option

Shipgreen.net has unveiled a web-based program that integrates with retailers’ online shopping carts, enabling consumers to offset the carbon produced from product life-cycle shipping emissions, according to this article from triplepundit. The program...

Published 01-03-2008 1:06 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Business-to-Consumer, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

San Francisco Launches Carbon Offset Program

Rather than funding replanting tree farms in other hemispheres or investing in alternative power systems on the other side of the planet, San Francisco has created the San Francisco Carbon Fund, a first-ever city-based carbon offset program that will...

Published 12-19-2007 1:03 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: U.S., Government, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

NY Moving Company Greens Operations

Movers, Not Shakers says it is the first moving company in New York to incorporate green moving practices in its operations from start to finish. All of the companies moving trucks run on biodiesel produced locally. Reusable moving bins are dropped off...

Published 12-17-2007 1:23 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, U.S., Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Recycling, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Royal Hawaiian Honey Sports Carbon Free Label

Distributor Tropical Traders Specialty Foods says its Royal Hawaiian Honey is the first U.S. food product to be certified Carbonfree, a label marketed by Carbonfund.org. All carbon emissions generated in the production and shipping of the honeys are calculated...

Published 12-05-2007 12:12 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Feature, Global, U.S., Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

BofA Teams With Brighter Planet On Green Credit Card

Bright Planet, which back in March was one of the first U.S. companies to announce plans to offer a credit card with carbon offset rewards, has morphed into Brighter Planet and finally launched its card by teaming up with Bank of America. The Brighter...

Published 11-30-2007 9:35 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Feature, Major Players, U.S., Marketing, Financial, Business-to-Consumer, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Toshiba Launches Plant A Tree Program

Toshiba is promoting a new Carbon Zero Scheme in the UK, which lets customers donate $2.43 in exchange for Toshiba offsetting the lifetime carbon footprint of their laptop, engadget reports. You don’t have to purchase a new machine in order to participate...

Published 11-29-2007 1:15 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Europe, Major Players, Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, Agriculture, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

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