Toshiba Greening Fleet with Toyota Hybrids
Hybrid Vehicles Further Enhance Toshiba’s Commitment to Reducing Carbon Footprint
Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., a leader in diagnostic and medical imaging systems, announces its commitment to replacing the company’s entire fleet of sedans for its sales and service teams with hybrid cars over the next three years. As part of Toshiba Corporation’s global environmental initiative, Toshiba chose the Toyota Camry Hybrid to replace one-third of the current gas-only fleet each year. The first set of hybrid cars is scheduled to arrive in mid-to-late November 2007 and will be used by service and sales managers and account executives.
Curtis Packaging to Go 100% Carbon Neutral
Curtis Packaging announced today that they are the first 100% carbon neutral printing and packaging company in North America.
UPS Expands Green Fleet with 306 Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Also Launches Biodiesel Initiative At Worldport Air Hub
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced it was adding 306 alternative fuel vehicles to its “green fleet” by placing an order for 167 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) delivery trucks while taking delivery of 139 new propane delivery trucks in North America. Additionally, the company has launched an initiative to use biodiesel fuel in its ground support vehicles at the UPS Worldport® air hub in Louisville.
Waste Management to build 60 new landfill energy facilities
Waste Management Inc. said Monday it plans to add 60 renewable energy facilities across the country over the next five years.
The Houston-based waste company currently has nearly 300 sites managing the disposal of millions of tons of waste per year.
Bayer MaterialScience LLC Continues its Commitment to Sustainable Development Education and Research
Makrolon® Polycarbonate and Other Bayer Materials Featured in Carnegie Mellon University’s Solar Decathlon Competition House
PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bayer MaterialScience LLC (BMS) continues its commitment to sustainable development education and research by again participating as a sponsor of Carnegie Mellon University’s 2007 Solar Decathlon competition house. Progress on the latest Carnegie Mellon decathlon project was showcased yesterday afternoon at an event at Pittsburgh’s “Construction Junction,” the construction site for the university’s 2007 Solar Decathlon competition house.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Reports Growing Interest in Commute Incentives to Bolster Environmental Goals
Mass Transit and Vanpool Riders Receive Greatest Benefit From Corporate Environmental Stewardship Efforts
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–An increasing number of California employees are seeking information from their employers about transportation incentive programs as a way to reduce pollution and help the environment.
Inquiries about vanpools and other commute alternatives are up 20% over a year ago according to Connie McGee, Rideshare Coordinator for Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Northern California. Enterprise administers hundreds of vanpools programs in Northern California at dozens of companies including Yahoo! Inc., Oracle and Sutter Health System among others
GE Invests in Third Airtricity Wind Farm in Texas, Again Helping Customer Grow in Booming US Wind Market
ROSCOE, Texas & STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric (NYSE: GE), is helping renewable energy company Airtricity, Inc. grow in the booming US wind energy market and boosting its own portfolio by investing in a 126.5-megawatt wind farm under construction in West Texas.
GE Energy Financial Services is investing alongside Airtricity – the project developer and operator — in the $231 million Champion Wind Farm in Roscoe in Mitchell and Nolan counties, 40 miles southwest of Abilene in a cotton farming area. This is GE Energy Financial Services’ third wind farm investment with Airtricity and Airtricity’s first project in North America not governed by a traditional long-term power purchase agreement. Additional financial details were not disclosed.
Bay Area Company Vetrazzo Redefines What It Means to Be "Green"
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In today’s market where sales of green building products are growing by 30 percent a year, every company is trying to claim that their product is “green.” The makers of Vetrazzo recycled glass countertops are redefining what it means to be green by producing the most eco-friendly surface materials on the market, and honoring the triple bottom line of “people, planet, and profit” in their everyday business operations.
Vetrazzo believes that a green product should do more than just use recycled materials or avoid release of dangerous airborne toxins — it should solve an environmental problem. Vetrazzo does just that by creating a new market for waste glass, including glass that cannot be recycled into other products. Each countertop panel is made from 550 pounds of crushed recycled glass from traffic lights, windshields, and beverage bottles. In 2007, Vetrazzo transformed over 250 tons of recycled glass — including 125 tons of waste glass not recyclable elsewhere — into beautiful, functional surface products.
Pitney Bowes Receives Ninth U.S. EPA Program Award
Company to be inducted into WasteWise Hall of Fame
STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pitney Bowes Inc., the world’s leading provider of mailstream solutions, (NYSE: PBI) today announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) WasteWise program for induction into the WasteWise Hall of Fame. The 2007 award is the ninth WasteWise award in which the EPA has recognized Pitney Bowes for the company’s significant accomplishments in recycling and solid waste reduction at its US facilities.
The EPA launched WasteWise in 1994 as a voluntary partnership program to help businesses and institutions find practical methods to reduce municipal solid waste, increase materials reuse and recycling, and encourage the buying and manufacturing of products with recycled content. Pitney Bowes began participation in the WasteWise program in 1996.
Google’s Search for Green
by Sam Leppanen
The search engine giant uses technology to move toward sustainability.
Many of us use Google as the tool of choice for searching the Internet. Google has added a new search that will help the company become carbon neutral by the end of 2007 and shore up environmental innovation that could ultimately benefit everyone.
Google plans to purchase carbon offsets by investing in projects such as capturing and burning methane, a greenhouse gas produced from animal waste with 20 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide, at Mexican and Brazilian farms. “Our funding makes it possible for anaerobic digesters to be installed, which capture and flare the biogas produced while simultaneously improving local air quality and reducing land and water contamination,” the company said. Google also has several other environmental programs and initiatives in place.
