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Daimler Touts Green Commercial Vehicles

Daimler kicked off its Shaping Future Transportation initiative by exhibiting 16 trucks and buses featuring alternative drive systems and fuels from Freightliner, Mitsubishi Fuso, Mercedes-Benz, Orion and Thomas Built Buses at the Mercedes-Benz Museum...

Published 11-14-2007 3:07 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Europe, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, Research & Technology, Automotive, Manufacturing, Hybrid Technology
Retailers Reputations Rise Due To Environmental Initiatives

Marks & Spencer and Wal-Mart drive the ethical agenda of retailers, which has been dominated by environmental issues in 2006-2007, according to the Covalence Retail Industry Report 2007. Marks & Spencer is a proactive leader, according to the...

Published 11-09-2007 12:21 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Europe, Feature, Global, Sustainability, Research & Technology, Business-to-Consumer
GE, Toyota, BP Top US Climate Brand Index

Consumers want businesses to take the lead on actions to reduce climate change, but 74% of Americans surveyed can’t identify (unprompted) any brands as taking a lead on climate change, according to the Climate Group’s just-launched US Climate Brand Index...

Published 10-16-2007 11:27 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Europe, Feature, Major Players, Research & Technology, U.S., Marketing, Business-to-Consumer
Virgin To Test 747 On Biofuel

Virgin Group will test a jet plane on renewable fuel early next year, CNET reports . "Early next year we will fly one of our 747s without passengers with one of the fuels that we have developed," Richard Branson said. Virgin...

Published 10-16-2007 9:46 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, Research & Technology, Business-to-Consumer, Travel, Biofuel
Land Rover To Cut Vehicle Emissions 20% By 2012

Land Rover will cut the average carbon dioxide emissions of its vehicles 20 percent by 2012 – more than the average cuts the European Union is seeking, Financial Times reports. The brand, owned by Ford Motor will spend $1.43 billion on CO2 improvements...

Published 10-08-2007 8:46 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Research & Technology, Automotive, Marketing, Manufacturing
2nd UK Beverage Maker Claims 1st To Use 100% Recycled Plastic Bottle

Innocent Drinks is the second UK beverage maker in the last week to say it is the first company to put its drinks into 100 percent recycled plastic bottles, Sustainable Is Good reports. Innocent is launching 100 percent recycled PET plastic bottles for...

Published 09-27-2007 10:38 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Europe, Feature, Research & Technology, Marketing, Manufacturing, Recycling
CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk

Ninety-five percent of companies that consider climate change to present a commercial risk have implemented a GHG reduction program with a specific target and timeline, according to The Carbon Disclosure Project's 5th annual global report which looks...

Published 09-24-2007 11:23 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Supply Chain, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Global, Reporting, Sustainability, Climate, Business-to-Business, Research & Technology, U.S., Financial, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Travel, Economics, Pharmaceuticals, Industrial Goods, Construction, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Mining
Green Grid Works With DOE, Reaches Out To Europe

The Green Grid and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy are collaborating to improve energy efficiency by educating IT managers on both the technical implementation of a greener data center and the associated...

Published 09-20-2007 9:29 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, Research & Technology, U.S., Government, Efficiency, Hi-Tech, Electricity
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
Will Companies Ditch Face-To-Face Meetings For Video Conferencing?

With air-related travel by Ceres' staff doubling to more than 475,000 miles last year,Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, writes in a Worldchanging article that, "We could buy carbon credits, of course, but why not cut to the chase and replace...

Published 09-06-2007 1:47 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Research & Technology, U.S., Business Services, Travel
BT Aims For More Efficient Data Centers

BT's data center chief Steve O'Donnell says the company is consolidating many of its systems onto VMware and Solaris containers to physically reduce the number of servers, according to an IT Week interview. "Rather...

Published 09-05-2007 11:22 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, Research & Technology, Financial, Efficiency, Hi-Tech, Electricity
ESCI Launches Supply Chain Carbon Council

The European Supply Chain Institute has launched a Supply Chain Carbon Council that hopes to bring Europe's leading commercial interests and government bodies together to develop and promote strategies to manage carbon emissions in the supply chain...

Published 09-05-2007 10:46 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Europe, Feature, Global, Business-to-Business, Research & Technology
Manufacturers Push Green Electronics At IFC, Consumers Not Interested

Manufacturers at IFA, Europe's biggest consumer electronics show, tried to entice consumers with environmentally-friendly product details but consumers were more interested in bigger and brighter screens, Reuters reports. Visitors "seemed uninterested...

Published 09-04-2007 12:06 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Research & Technology, Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, Recycling
Ford Publishes Product Sustainability Index

Ford of Europe has published a Product Sustainability Index report (PDF) covering the Ford Mondeo, Ford S-Max and Ford Galaxy. Ford’s PSI tracks eight product attributes identified as key sustainability elements of a vehicle. These are: life cycle global...

Published 08-23-2007 12:51 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Reporting, Sustainability, Research & Technology, U.S., Automotive, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Travel
Logicalis Joins Green Grid

Logicalis has joined the Green Grid, a consortium of companies working to advance energy efficiency in data centers and computing ecosystems. “We look forward...

Published 08-21-2007 11:32 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Feature, Research & Technology, U.S., Business Services, Hi-Tech, Electricity, New Technology

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Daimler Touts Green Commercial Vehicles

Retailers Reputations Rise Due To Environmental Initiatives

GE, Toyota, BP Top US Climate Brand Index

Virgin To Test 747 On Biofuel

Land Rover To Cut Vehicle Emissions 20% By 2012

2nd UK Beverage Maker Claims 1st To Use 100% Recycled Plastic Bottle

CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk

Green Grid Works With DOE, Reaches Out To Europe

UN Launches ‘CDM Bazaar’

Will Companies Ditch Face-To-Face Meetings For Video Conferencing?

BT Aims For More Efficient Data Centers

ESCI Launches Supply Chain Carbon Council

Manufacturers Push Green Electronics At IFC, Consumers Not Interested

Ford Publishes Product Sustainability Index

Logicalis Joins Green Grid