The California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) today announced the launch of the Center for Innovation and Sustainability, a new public policy arm created to address critical issues affecting the long-term transformation of the energy industry.
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) announced today that it has completed funding for projects in China and the United States that will reduce or sequester greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Total funding of the projects is approximately $4 million.
Kyocera Solar, Inc. and East Los Angeles College (ELAC) today celebrated the inauguration of a colossal, 1.2 megawatt (MW) solar electric generating system at ELAC's Monterey Park campus.
Promising to transform solar power from a "boutique" option to an affordable, dependable, mainstream energy solution, MIT and the Chesonis Family Foundation today launched a "solar revolution" with the ultimate aim of making solar energy America's primary carbon-free fuel.
JPMorgan Chase announced today additional strategies to reduce its global carbon footprint. By increasing energy efficiencies in its facilities worldwide, purchasing energy from renewable sources, and educating employees on energy conservation, the firm aims to cut its global emissions 20% by 2012 using 2005 baseline. In addition, the firm will offset 100% of all employee air travel.
As part of its ongoing commitment to the preservation of the environment, action sports leader Sole Technology, parent company of etnies, eS, Emerica, ThirtyTwo and Altamont apparel, today announced the results of its first corporate eco-audit to measure the company's overall carbon footprint, and its goal of becoming a carbon neutral company by the year 2020.
Today, Toronto Pearson International Airport joined the global aviation industry in a Declaration on climate change that was signed by industry leaders at the Aviation + Environment Summit in Geneva, Switzerland.
Environmental groups from New York to California are taking a pledge to consider only the "greenest" CFLs when making purchases for office use and during compact fluorescent lamp giveaways. The new "Green Lighting Campaign" intends to promote more sustainable lighting practices such as recycling, rather than throwing lamps containing mercury in the trash.
With food responsible for 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions, food service maverick Bon Appetit Management Company has introduced the Low Carbon Diet Calculator, an easy web-based calculator to help citizens reduce the global warming impact of their food.
The old adage, "We are what we eat," may be the latest recipe for success when it comes to curbing the perils of global climate warming. Despite the recent popular attention to the distance that food travels from farm to plate, aka "food miles," Carnegie Mellon researchers Christopher L. Weber and H. Scott Matthews argue in an upcoming article in the prestigious Environmental Science + Technology journal that it is dietary choice, not food miles, which most determines a household's food-related climate impacts.
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