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Con-Way Freight Dials Back Speed To Save Fuel

Less-than-truckload freight transportation company Con-way Freight has turned back the speed governors on its 8,400-tractor fleet in a move to improve fuel conservation and reduce carbon emissions. The company has adjusted the governors on its truck engines...

Published 03-11-2008 3:20 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Feature, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Efficiency, Strategy & Leadership
PHH GreenFleet Adds Telematics Service

PHH Arval has added data from telematics to GreenFleet’s PHH Onboard service to help companies cut their emissions. Using data captured from the telematics device in each vehicle, PHH Arval says that companies can monitor and impact driver behavior...

Published 03-11-2008 1:41 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Automotive, Efficiency, Products & Planning
Nature Provides Recipe For Sustainable Manufacturing

By studying the Earth’s biosphere, managers can learn how to build ecologically friendly products that reduce manufacturing costs, Gregory Unruh writes in the Dallas Morning News. To make recycling easier, manufacturers should think fewer materials...

Published 03-10-2008 4:34 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Waste, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Recycling, Products & Planning
DuPont Titanium Cuts Energy Use, Saves $100 Million

DuPont Titanium Technologies says it has cut its energy consumption per pound of product by nearly 30 percent - saving more than $100 million in the process as oil prices hover at the $100 per barrel threshold. The business estimates that it has saved...

Published 03-03-2008 2:05 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, Facilities, U.S., Efficiency, Industrial Goods, Strategy & Leadership
UPS, FedEx Find Ways To Save Gas

With record setting gas and diesel prices, fuel-efficient package delivery has taken on an even higher level of importance for UPS, FedEx, and other truck-dependent businesses, AP reports. High-tech solutions, old-fashioned fuel surcharges, equipment...

Published 02-20-2008 12:40 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Business Services, Efficiency, Strategy & Leadership
Subaru Among Companies Nearing Zero-Waste

Subaru says that 99.8 percent of the refuse from its Indiana plant - on track to produce 180,000 cars this year - is recycled or reused so it doesn’t go to a landfill, including about five percent that goes to a waste-to-energy plant that burns...

Published 02-19-2008 2:32 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Major Players, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Facilities, Waste, Automotive, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Recycling, Strategy & Leadership
Harrah’s Making Environmental Choices

Gwen Migita, director of social responsibility at Harrah’s Entertainment, says that over the past seven years, environmental initiatives have gone from energy management cost cutting measures to an acknowledgment by executives that making green...

Published 02-12-2008 11:49 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Efficiency, Travel, Recycling, Products & Planning, Retail & Restaurants
Green Technology Overview

Adam Grosser, general partner of Foundation Capital, describes the different categories of green technology and the challenges they face.

Published 01-28-2008 10:11 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Climate, Business-to-Business, Facilities, Pollution, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Clean Energy, Economics, Electricity, Recycling, Storage, Strategy & Leadership, Carbon Offsets/RECs, Today's Green Video
Wal-Mart Chief Pledges to Go Greener

In a speech that promised widespread improvement and reform throughout Wal-Mart and its supply chain, Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr., pledged to cut the energy used by many of its company’s products 25 percent, reports the New York Times. “We...

Published 01-24-2008 2:24 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Automotive, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Clean Energy, Electricity, People, Wind Energy, Strategy & Leadership
Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report

Hormel Foods has released its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report. “The process of compiling information for this report has taught us a great deal, and we will continue to find ways to strengthen our commitment to our employees, customers, investors...

Published 01-23-2008 4:04 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Efficiency, Agriculture, Recycling, Water, CSR Reports, Finance & Reporting
U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and without requiring big changes in consumer lifestyles, according to “Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions:...

Published 11-30-2007 11:22 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, U.S., Automotive, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Economics, Industrial Goods, Electricity, Biofuel, Wind Energy, Utilities, Coal, Hydrogen, Geothermal, Wave Energy, Predictions, Nuclear, Biomass, Today's Trend, Strategy & Leadership, Carbon Offsets/RECs, Oil & Gas
Subway Cuts Energy Use

Subway has opened an Eco-Store in Florida that includes high efficiency HVAC systems, remote condensing units for refrigeration and ice making equipment, day lighting and controls for high efficiency lighting, LED interior and exterior signs, low flow...

Published 11-21-2007 2:02 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Sustainability, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Efficiency, Recycling, Contracts & Installations
Mitsubishi Electric Announces Plan To Cut CO2 Emissions 30%

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has released (PDF) a long-term environmental management vision dubbed “Environmental Vision 2021.” The target year, 2021, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the company’s founding. On the...

Published 10-23-2007 8:53 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, Environmental Affairs, Business-to-Business, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Clean Energy, Electricity, Asia, Recycling
Honda Releases Environmental Report

Honda has released an environmental report covering the performance in North America of the company's automobile, power sports and power equipment products, its 14 major manufacturing plants, and the corporate activities of 15 Honda group companies...

Published 10-08-2007 2:33 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Feature, Major Players, Reporting, Sustainability, Facilities, Waste, Pollution, Automotive, North America, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Clean Energy, Electricity, Recycling, Water, CSR Reports
UPS Adds 300 Alternative Fuel Vehicles

UPS is adding 306 alternative fuel vehicles to its "green fleet" by placing an order for 167 Compressed Natural Gas delivery trucks while taking delivery of 139 new propane delivery trucks in North America. Additionally, the company has launched...

Published 10-08-2007 11:10 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Feature, U.S., Automotive, North America, Business Services, Efficiency, Contracts & Installations, Refitting

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Con-Way Freight Dials Back Speed To Save Fuel

PHH GreenFleet Adds Telematics Service

Nature Provides Recipe For Sustainable Manufacturing

DuPont Titanium Cuts Energy Use, Saves $100 Million

UPS, FedEx Find Ways To Save Gas

Subaru Among Companies Nearing Zero-Waste

Harrah’s Making Environmental Choices

Green Technology Overview

Wal-Mart Chief Pledges to Go Greener

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

Subway Cuts Energy Use

Mitsubishi Electric Announces Plan To Cut CO2 Emissions 30%

Honda Releases Environmental Report

UPS Adds 300 Alternative Fuel Vehicles