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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Cruisin' Altitude Airline slows down to reduce emissions		20 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:12 AM on 20 May 2008 Scandinavian airline SAS has found a viable way to cut down on greenhouse-gas emissions and fuel costs: fly slower. The airline has been testing slower speeds since early 2006, and says it has saved some $12 million in fuel costs since then. And have no fear about missing your connection; hitting the brakes adds mere minutes to travel time. SAS hopes that implementing the slowdown strategy throughout its f ...
Topics: air travel, business, climate, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news (all these topics)

Be Like Nike Big biz ranked on greenness		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:47 PM on 07 May 2008 Takeaways from a new ranking of eco-friendly practices in big biz: Consumer companies are getting greener, but there's plenty of ground to gain. In its second annual scorecard, nonprofit Climate Counts ranked 56 companies on their measurement, reduction, and disclosure of greenhouse gases. Eighty-four percent of the companies scored higher this year than they did in 2007, but the average score was still only 40 out of a p ...
Topics: business, climate, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, shopping (all these topics)

Commute conundrum Should emissions from employee commutes be included in company GHG inventories?	Guest author	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Kevin Luten of UrbanTrans, a sustainable transportation consulting firm working in Australia and the United States. He is based in Melbourne. ----- When businesses dip a toe in the rising sea of corporate action on climate change, the first box they check before diving in involves tabulating their own greenhouse-gas inventory. In getting your corporate house in order, the first step is defining where your yard ends and your neighbor' ...
Topics: public transportation, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, business, cars (all these topics)

Introducing Auden Schendler: Part I On those quotes in Businessweek's 'Little Green Lies'	Joseph Romm	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
This post is by guest blogger Auden Schendler, executive director for Community and Environmental Responsibility at the Aspen Skiing Company. Named a 'Climate Crusader' in Time magazine's 2006 special issue on climate change, Auden once worked for Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute. You can read his full bio here. Auden has unique insights into the difficulties of corporate sustainability in the absence of government leadership and a price for carbon. - ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics)

The Procter Is In Big-biz coalition will pressure suppliers to report emissions		09 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:24 AM on 09 Oct 2007 At least six of the world's largest companies have banded together to urge their suppliers to report and mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions. Joining together as the Supply Chain Leadership Coalition and partnering with the Carbon Disclosure Project -- which is also working with Wal-Mart -- companies including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Tesco, Nestl�, Imperial Tobacco, and Cadbury ...
Topics: business, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news (all these topics)

We Really Needed Some Disclosure More companies disclosing and mitigating emissions, says new report		25 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:44 AM on 25 Sep 2007 Many corporations are recognizing the impact of climate change on business as usual, and in response are disclosing and working to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions, says a new report from the nonprofit Carbon Disclosure Project. The group's fifth annual survey of the world's 500 largest companies boasted a 75 percent response rate; of those, 80 percent of busine ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

Ecomagination and coal As long as GE funds coal, its net impact is far from green	David Roberts	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Let me pull a few excerpts from a recent WSJ story on the progress of GE's much-touted "ecomagination" campaign: 'I don't want to change the economic flow of the company,' [CEO Jeffrey] Immelt says. So GE continues to sell coal-fired steam turbines and is delving deeper into oil-and-gas production. Meanwhile, its finance unit seeks out coal-related investments including power plants, which are a leading cause of carbon-dioxide emissions in the U.S. ... ...
Topics: business, climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Memo to Google: Coal is not green Find a new source of power, dudes	Joseph Romm	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Google got a lot of great press for its new plan to "voluntarily cut or offset all its greenhouse emissions by the end of the year." But was it all deserved? The Boston Globe reported the story as "Google aims to go carbon-neutral by end 2007. " The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) reprinted the story, as did Greenwire and others. Buried in the story was this gem: Separately, Google is planning to spend $600 million t ...
Topics: business, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenwashing, jackassery (all these topics)

A remarkable consistency Corporatists overestimate environmental response costs every time	JMG	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
A friend sends an article from a legal publication that makes an important point about economists and other naysayers who insist that addressing global climate disruption will be too expensive. (Oddly, the same people always gassing on about boundless human potential when it comes to imagining new substitutes for depleting resources always forget to incorporate that creativity in their projections of the cost of fixing environmental problems.) A key excerpt (my emphasis):The ...
Topics: business, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Don't Discount Him An interview with Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott	Amanda Griscom Little	12 Apr 2006	Main Dish
Last week, Wal-Mart joined leading energy executives in their startling call for mandatory caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. The heart of this monolithic retail Grinch grew three sizes that day -- or so it seemed to many environmental Who's. Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott. For many enviros, the name "Wal-Mart" has always triggered a shudder. The world's biggest retailer has been charged with exa ...
Topics: business, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, interview, renewable energy, Wal-Mart, waste (all these topics)

In Good Company Cutting emissions to raise profits	Amanda Griscom	31 Jul 2002	Powers That Be
As the epidemic of accounting scandals continues to spread and the term Corporate Responsibility rings with the oppressive severity of an 11th Commandment, it's nice to catch a little glimpse of the brighter side: A growing number of U.S. companies have been making voluntary pledges to reform their internal operations in order to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming. And surprisingly -- or mayb ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics)

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