But the company is among a rare breed that has spent money not just to buy carbon offsets or clean power to reduce carbon footprint, but it also has invested aggressively in advancing renewable energy technology development and deployment. …
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One of the countrys first zero-carbon community centres will officially open its doors to the public tomorrow.
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In line with its continued efforts to raise awareness on environment hazards and to assist the design of solutions that address these challenges, USAID Jordan Economic Development Program in cooperation with the Jordan Energy Chapter -EDAMA Association and American Energy Engineers Association (AEE) held in its premises a three days course for Carbon Reduction Managers which was attended by around 30 Jordanian engineers from the public and private sectors.
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ATLANTA Gas South today announced it has begun offering a voluntary carbon offset program to its commercial and governmental customers through the Valley Wood Carbon Sequestration Project. Valley Wood was established in 2008 to preserve timberlands in rural Georgia for carbon sequestration; the project’s offsets are provided by Verus Carbon Neutral and are certified by the CCX Registry of Chicago.
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If you follow environmental issues, there’s no doubt your e-mail inbox has been filled with messages in recent days and weeks. It’s Earth Day, Earth Month, green season. One message that caught my eye, though, was an announcement from Overstock.com that it will now be offering carbon-neutral shipping under a partnership with the Carbonfund.org Foundation. Oh, it must just be for Earth Day. No, it’s from now on. Well then there must be a catch. Sure: This only applies to purchases from the big O’s Worldstock Fair Trade inventory. OK, that’s something to support. But how much extra does it cost?
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SALT LAKE CITY, April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) (short cut: O.CO) today, announced the debut of carbon-neutral shipping for every purchase made from its Worldstock Fair Trade inventory, effective immediately. This sustainability effort establishes Overstock.com as one of the largest online retailers to take responsibility for the environmental impact of its product shipping program.
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Downtown Chicago could be 100 percent free from carbon emissions by 2030, if architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill have their way.
Their plan outlines specific ways for old buildings in the Loop to become completely energy efficient. Aging office buildings, for example, would be converted to residential apartments, which tend to use energy at night and even out energy demand during the day. And that residential energy could come solely from locally generated wind power.
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CSIROs ambition to become carbon-neutral by 2015 is being powered by software to track and manage its environmental footprint.
Australias national science agency hopes to halve its water and waste profile and achieve efficiency gains through greener procurement, behaviour change, and greater use of renewable energy.
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West Long Branch, NJ (April 18, 2011) Monmouth University will go carbon neutral on Earth Day and help students and area residents to do the same. On April 22, 2011, Hess Corporation’s Energy Marketing division is providing the University with Verified Emission Reductions (VERs). The carbon off-sets are the equivalent of taking seven passenger cars off the road for a full year.
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An engineer-turned-psychologist has built a carbon-neutral compact home that he claims would have no utility bills and even generate
A SYDNEY school thought to have become the first in the world to go ”carbon neutral” by saving a Malaysian rainforest from logging appears to have been deceived by carbon offset company shift2neutral.
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Verdigris Group, the highly-progressive Real Estate Development and Services Company, expands their Corporate Sustainability Program to include watershed restoration and reforestation efforts in addition to their ongoing investments in solar and wind project development.
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WWF-UK has today resigned from a taskforce tasked with greening British homes in protest over the government’s decision to water down its Zero Carbon Homes standard.
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The world is becoming an increasingly environmentally
I realize that this mini-controversy has largely come and gone — the one in which Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of Fox News’ parent company News Corp, declared it ‘carbon neutral’ — but there are still reports popping up praising the company’s ‘green’ efforts even now, months later. I just wanted to quickly clear the air here: so as long as it is responsible for Fox News (and a host of other climate-denial spouting publications), News Corp cannot call itself carbon neutral. Period.
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L), the world’s third-largest drugmaker, announced a goal to be carbon neutral by 2050.
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(Source: PrimeNewswire)trackingSTAMFORD, Conn., March 28, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Do you walk, drive, or take the bus to work? Wash your clothes in cold or warm water? Buy your fruit imported from Brazil or from your local farmer’s market? The answer to each one of these questions is an important factor in determining each individual’s impact on the environment.
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UK print service provider Anglia Print Ltd is a long-standing customer of Presstek, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRST), a leading manufacturer and marketer of digital offset printing solutions, and has become the first printing company in East Anglia to be certified as carbon neutral by the CarbonNeutral Company. The Beccles and Norwich based company believes its investment in a Presstek 34DI digital offset press has significantly enhanced its sustainability credentials and played a crucial role in helping it achieve coveted carbon neutral status.
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Pineapple Hospitality is proud to announce that as of March 1, all shipments from the company will be carbon neutral. By joining the UPS carbon neutral program, Pineapple Hospitality will offset the carbon dioxide emissions generated by the transport of their packages within the United States.
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Qantas and Jetstar have achieved carbon neutral certification for their carbon offset programs under the Australian Governments new National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS), and are among the first to do so.
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Even climate-change skeptics cant deny the cost of greenhouse gas emissions now that public sector organizations – such as the Cowichan Valley School District are paying for carbon offsets.
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Interxion, a provider of carrier-neutral colocation data center services for Europe, has recently announced that its Interxion (News – Alert) Switzerland has signed a comprehensive carbon offsetting partnership with myclimate.
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Coffee growers in Costa Rica are farming the world’s first certified carbon-neutral coffee.
Coffee growing has been known to make quite a big environmental impact as forests can be cleared and pesticides can contaminate water, but now a group of 800 coffee farms in the Dota Valley, known as CoopeDota, is hoping their new offering will be more attractive to green consumers.
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Hatton National Bank, one of Sri Lankas pioneering financial services institutions set the standard for South Asia by publishing the 1st
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