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Ad Campaign About Energy Efficient Houses and ENERGY STAR Qualified Homes

Owning an energy efficient home is just one way of living Green. Georgia Power is launching a four-month advertising campaign to raise public awareness about energy efficient houses and educate new home buyers about the value of ENERGY STAR qualified homes.

23 Apr 2008

Increasing Energy Efficiency and Significantly Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Goodyear Tire + Rubber Company, the nation's leading commercial tire manufacturer, announced today it has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport Partnership, which previously approved using the company's Fuel Max linehaul tires on SmartWay tractors and trailers.

22 Apr 2008

SunChips Living Up to Its Name by Using Solar Energy

SunChips, Frito-Lay's popular line of multigrain snacks, is living up to its name by using solar energy to help make some of the snacks at its Modesto, Calif. manufacturing facility. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurated the new solar field today on Earth Day.

22 Apr 2008

Lighting Campaign Intends to Promote More Sustainable Lighting Practices

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.

22 Apr 2008

New Campaign Encourages Drivers to Properly Maintain Their Vehicles

The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), the Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR), elected leaders, government officials and local consumers gathered today at the state Capitol to launch the DriveHealthy.com campaign.

22 Apr 2008

Carlson Hotels Worldwide Celebrates Earth Day with Carbon Neutral Matching Program

In celebration of Earth Day, Carlson Hotels Worldwide today announced it will match the contribution of every goldpoints plus(SM) member donating points to Carbon Neutral from now through April 30, 2008, on a global basis.

22 Apr 2008

Pepco Energy to Supply Wind Energy to the U.S. Headquarters of WWF

Pepco Energy Services, a subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc. and a leader in supplying renewable electricity, announced today that it has been awarded a contract to supply wind energy to the U.S. headquarters of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Washington, D.C. Working in over 100 countries around the world, WWF has led international conservation efforts for more than 45 years.

22 Apr 2008

Battelle Top Ten List Forecasts Emerging Green Technologies

In 1970, Kermit the Frog (voiced by Jim Henson) crooned, "It's not that easy being green, having to spend each day the color of the leaves."

21 Apr 2008

Fort Wayne Community School District Recognized for Reducing Harmful Emissions

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Acting Air and Radiation Division Director Cheryl Newton this morning recognized the Fort Wayne Community School District, Fort Wayne, Ind., for its work using a $50,000 EPA Clean School Bus grant to reduce harmful diesel emissions from its school bus fleet.

21 Apr 2008