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Some Hybrid Vehicles Now Make Financial Sense According to Study

Car buyers who want to save money at the gas pump are increasingly looking to more fuel-efficient vehicles such as hybrids to meet their needs. But hybrids command a price premium that often outweighs any potential fuel savings.

7 May 2008

Making the Best Economic and Environmental Choice Starts by Figuring Out the Facts

It's sunshine, it's free, it's simple enough-right? With all the dizzying things to consider, from interpreting your power bill and reviewing solar proposals to comparing paying cash with lower-cost offerings, the process of switching to solar can leave a homeowner buried in paperwork.

30 Apr 2008

In America, Even the Smallest Footprints are Large

Whether you live in a cardboard box or a luxurious mansion, whether you subsist on homegrown vegetables or wolf down imported steaks, whether you're a jet-setter or a sedentary retiree, anyone who lives in the U.S. contributes more than twice as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as those living in the rest of the world.

28 Apr 2008

Industry Leader Adds Another 75 Clean-Technology Vans in the United States and Europe

FedEx Corp. today announced a major milestone for its existing hybrid-electric truck fleet: more than two million miles of revenue service.

28 Apr 2008

Low-Carbon Electricity to Power Plug-In Hybrids

Carnegie Mellon University's Constantine Samaras and Kyle Meisterling report that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming, but the benefits are highly dependent on how the electricity system changes in the coming decades.

25 Apr 2008

The First U.S. Gaming Corporation to Receive an Environmental Quality Award

Green is not just the color of money at Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. It's also the way the company operates.

25 Apr 2008

Largest Diesel Hybrid Truck Fleet of Any American Utility Company

American Electric Power, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, is expanding its green efforts to include more hybrid trucks. On Earth Day, at Navistar, Inc.'s Springfield, Ohio, Assembly Plant, AEP is announcing that it has ordered its largest number of hybrid trucks to date - 18 International® DuraStar(TM) Hybrid diesel hybrid trucks.

23 Apr 2008

Vestar Development Co.'s Commitment to the Environment Labeled GreenStar

In what marks one of the largest and most aggressive environmental commitments from any of the United States' major retail developers, Vestar Development Co. has launched GreenStar, a vow to certified sustainable development for millions of square feet of retail space on tap in the Southwest.

22 Apr 2008