09/Jul 2008 | .As CCDI, Lagos govt partner in climate change | An ideal urban setting. Photo: Dachi MaduakoCommunity Conservation and Development Initiative (CCDI), a Non Government Organisation (NGO) went into partnership with the Lagos State government last wee... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G-8 leaders ink climate change deal | Wednesday, but failed to convince big emerging economies that rich countries were doing enough. Climate deal fails to convince emerging nations Toyako, Japan: Group of Eight (G8) leaders patched toge... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | "Lotus Eco Elise Unveiled...Lotus Goes Green " | BMW Builds 500 Electric-Powered MINI Coopers for California. MINI is Not Going to Increase Production Despite Record Sales . Lotus Eco Elise Unveiled the Eco Elise before its official unveiling at the... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Plovers back on a crowded Revere Beach | By Beth Daley, Globe Staff It used to be that piping plovers and people didn't mix. After the tiny shorebird was listed as threatened in 1986 under the Federal Endangered Species Act, beaches along th... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Flights to Europe to cost more as airlines face carbon tax | European Parliament yesterday adopted a compromise agreement with the European Council on including aviation in . EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS MEPs on Tuesday (8 July) approved a plan to include airlines i... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bills Without Governor's Signature That Have Become Law | Governor Linda Lingle has allowed the following bills to become law without her signature. The Governor's statements of concern on these measures can be viewed on the Governor's Web site at: www. A co... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc., Provider of WeatherTRAK, Joins | Office Depot Foundation Supports Recovery From Midwest Floods For. ING Foundation Contributes $1 Million to Iowa Disaster-Relief. HydroPoint Data Systems HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc., Provider of Wea... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Carlson Supports Climate Change Recommendations Considered by Global Leaders | Marilyn Carlson Nelson and Hubert Joly of Carlson, a global hotel, marketing, restaurant and travel company, are among 100 influential, top executives who have endorsed a comprehensive climate change ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | USF forms climate steering committee | 11:00PM. Wednesday Tags: USF , sustainable , solar power , light rail , LEED In April, The University of South Florida joined the American College & University Presidents Climate Committee, or ACUPCC,... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Jaeger, DiCaprio Unveil Time to Care | 7/9/2008 12:38:00 PMLuxury Swiss watch company Jaeger-LeCoultre in partnership with actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio has created its "Time to Care" program, to benefit the Leonardo DiCaprio Fund ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Denver Green Festival Regional Director | Co-op America is a leading national green economy organization, based in Washington, DC. Global Exchange is a leading international human rights organization, based in San Francisco. With Green Festiv... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Local Government Responsible for 1% of Statewide GHG | California Land Use, Environmental & Real Estate Lawyer & Attorney : Abbott & Kindermann Law Firm : Sacramento, CA . Home > Climate Change > Local Government Responsible for 1% of Statewide GHG Emiss... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | SPG Solar Announces Largest Customer-Owned Solar Energy System in Arizona | SPG Solar, Inc., The Gatorade Company, a division of PepsiCo (PEP), and Salt River Project (SRP) Earthwise Solar announce the largest solar energy initiative in Arizona at the Gatorade manufacturing a... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Green . . . The Color of Today's Competitive Edge in Business | It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that something important is going on with all these marketing blitzes stressing the "Green Creds" of businesses from local to national. "Have we reache... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | EMSI Consults on First LEED(R) Gold-Certified Commercial Building in China | Environmental Market Solutions, Inc. (EMSI), an environmental and green building consulting company, provided consulting services for Century Prosper Center, the first speculative commercial office bu... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bush lauds G-8 leaders for climate work, trade issues | From left to right, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula sa Silva, South African President Thabo Mvuyelwa Mlbeki, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao s... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Carlson Supports Climate Change Recommendations To Be Considered By Global Leaders At Annual Summit | July 09, 2008 // Franchising.com // Minneapolis - Marilyn Carlson Nelson and Hubert Joly of Carlson, a global hotel, marketing, restaurant and travel company, are among 100 influential, top executives... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 Summit: Conference Chair Summary | We met at Hokkaido Toyako to address key challenges we face today. We adopted the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Leaders Declaration and three independent statements on Global Food Security, Counter-Terror... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 Leaders Statement on Global Food Security | 1. We are deeply concerned that the steep rise in global food prices coupled with availability problems in a number of developing countries is threatening global food security. The negative impacts of... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Internal audit and the environment: how green is your audit? | Companies are all too keen to shout about their green credentials but without measurement, control and independent verification they are meaningless Written by Dene Burke . Formerly the preserve of a ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The 'G' in G-8 Stands for Greedy | This week's G-8 leaders' meeting at Lake Toya may have set a record as the most expensive and futile conference in human history. The get-together in one of the most beautiful parts of northern Japan ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | ECONOMY: Jobs are out there | By RICHARD VALENTY Colorado Daily Staff Writer Originally published 12:00 a. He still can't be considered a purveyor of economic doom, but CU economist Rich Wobbekind has revised his 2008 state job gr... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Official Reports & News on Australian Crisis | This is simply unbelievable. Unless radical action is taken quickly, this means " the eventual destruction of sites including the Great Barrier Reef --- and the nation's food bowl ---" . A plague of... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Lotus continues down the green path with the Eco Elise | While it could be argued that Lotus already builds the greenest sportscars on the planet, the British automaker seems keenly aware that the world's gas-burning ways are quickly being swept under the c... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Job vacancy: CDM Coordinator, UNFCCC | UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change .Coordinator (D1) Sustainable Development Mechanism [PDF] The UNFCCC secretariat in Bonn is inviting applications for the position of Coo... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | VIEWPOINT: G8 failing to help poor on climate | U. Bush (R) meets with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the G8 summit in Toyako, July 9, 2008. India told the major economies at the meeting that they had not done enough on climate change. Sv... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News - Director WWF G8 | EMSI Consults on First LEED(R) Gold-Certified Commercial Building. The Feol-Hinricher Companies Take an Environmental Leadership by. The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News - Director WWF Glob... Read » |
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09/Jul 2008 | Leaders still vague on emissions targets | World leaders met this week in Toyako on the Japanese island of Hokkaido to discuss climate change among other global problems. But progress on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions seems increasingly u... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | RIT and Monroe County Announce New Sustainability Partnership | Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, together with the Rochester Institute of Technology s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, today announced a partnership that will result in the creation of a ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NYC Green Rooftops to Reap Tax Credits | July 9, 2008 Building owners in New York City who install green rooftops will now receive a significant tax credit under a bill that passed the state legislature on June 25. Owners who install green r... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Green Building Alliance Announces $140K in Grants | Second Round Brings Total Disbursements to $558,000 PITTSBURGH, PA - Green Building Alliance (GBA) announced a total of $140,000 in Product Innovation Grants for three projects that seek to develop a... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Climate change help should not go via World Bank, says aid agency | Money given by wealthy nations to help the developing world combat climate change should not be administered by the World Bank, says the UK-based international development agency Christian Aid. The NG... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | A Worthless Gust of Hot Air | At the G8 summit in Tokyo, President George W. Bush, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plant a tree. Despite grandiose claims... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Missoula considers hiring energy-conscious official | Reservoir releases at record low on Missouri River. Reservoir releases at record low on Missouri River. Reservoir releases at record low on Missouri River. Reservoir releases at record low on Missouri... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bush praises G8 climate 'progress' | George Bush, the US president, has welcomed what he said was "significant progress" on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, despite criticsm that a three-day G8 summit in Japan has failed to s... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Summit's climate-change pledge 'fails to set targets' | 09/07/2008 - 08:42:09 The world s top producers of greenhouse gases pledged to battle climate change today, but failed to agree on targets for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Hu Calls on Major Economies to Combat Climate Change | Attends Meeting on Energy Security, Climate Change President Hu Elaborates on China's Stance on Climate Change G8 Summit Ends with Talks on Climate Change President Hu Leaves for Home after G8 Outre... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Afghan bombing sends stark message to India: With power comes risks | The shootout outside the U. consulate in Istanbul which left six people dead was an 'obvious act of terrorism,' the U.Police and emergency officials at the scene of the attack outside the U. Iran tes... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Statement by major economies on climate change | Group of Eight rich nations and major emerging economies including China and India said on Wednesday they supported a "shared vision" for action on climate change, including a long-term goal for cutti... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Declaration of Leaders Meeting of Major Economies on Energy Security and Climate Change | We, the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | IREM and USGBC to collaborate on | IREM and USGBC to collaborate on efficiency and sustainability July 9, 2008 The Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and the US Green Building Council (USGBC) recently signed a Memorandum of Int... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Autodesk buys Ecotect and Green Building Studio to | Autodesk buys Ecotect and Green Building Studio to enhance sustainable design July 9, 2008 As part of its ongoing commitment to support the practice of sustainable design and green building in the arc... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Alberta Launches 2 New Funds To Cut Greenhouse G | CALGARY - Royal Dutch Shell PLC has embarked on a major carbon-capture project to clean up its oil sands output on the same day the Alberta government created a. EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | 2ND LD: 16 major CO2 emitters vow to ensure 'deep cuts' in emissions | LEAD: Sarkozy to attend Beijing Olympics opening ceremony+ Court denies bail for ex-Khmer Rouge minister+ Dollar trades at mid-107 yen level in Tokyo morning deals+ Fukuda, Lee reaffirm close ties ami... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | World Environment Center Establishes New Shanghai Office to Deliver Sustainable Business Value-Announces Strategic Partnership With JPI Group | World Environment Center Establishes New Shanghai Office to Deliver Sustainable Business Value-Announces Strategic Partnership With JPI Group. and SHANGHAI,CHINA, - July 8, 2008 - The World Environmen... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News - Director WWF Global Climate Initiative: G8 "Pathetic" On Climate Solutions | At the G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan, leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations agreed to halve global carbon emissions by 2050. While German Chancellor Angela Merkel hailed it as a significa... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Alberta spending $4B to reduce emissions with public transit, CO2 storage | Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach says his government's measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are equal to taking one million cars off the road each year. CALGARY - Alberta will spend $4 billion over... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Oil industry wakes up to its battered image | Jamie Lynn Spears poses with baby for mag cover LEAD: Negotiators discuss verification steps ahead of N. Korea meeting+ Interpreters 'pushed to limit' in mock trial for foreign defendant+ Baseball: Ma... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8: World Must Act on Greenhouse Gas Emissions | G8 leaders plant trees July 8 to commemorate their 2008 summit in Toyako on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Staff Writer Washington -- The Group of Eight (G8) major economies agree that the ... Read » |