C02 emissions trading can help lower the environmental cost of doing business – if you know how to navigate the booming $60 billion market. How It Works Emissions limits and trading rules vary country by country, so...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Vancouver, British Columbia's award-winning Wedgewood Hotel and Spa has entered into an agreement with Planktos Inc. to purchase sufficient carbon credits to make the Wedgewood 'Carbon Neutral' and zero out all its CO2 emissions. Each Planktos carbon credit represents one tonne of CO2 that has been...
SAN FRANCISCO -- California based ocean and forest restoration firm Planktos, Inc. today announced the formation of a joint venture with Klimafa, Inc., a carbon forestry firm, that is in the process of working with Hungary's government to turn large tracts of degraded land and retired pasturage into protected mixed...
Byline: Liz Skinner WASHINGTON - The profile of "green'' investors has changed. They aren't just mature demonstrators of the 1960s with extra cash in their accounts. Today's environment friendly investors...
LONDON AFP — Credit crunch, carbon footprint and electrosmog squeezed into Chambers dictionary Thursday, reflecting the world's belt-tightening and ecologically-worried times, its editor said. More prosaically, "wardrobe malfunction," "comfort food" and "nail bars" were also among a raft of new words and and expressions included in the latest...
BRUSSELS AFP — The European Commission on Wednesday said the EU will link its carbon trading market to the United Nations' scheme by December at the latest. The joined-up schemes should give Europe's biggest polluters -- such as the steel, construction and energy firms -- more leeway to...
MIAMI -- Greenberg Traurig LLP announces attorney Michael Wallander will speak at a symposium led by visionaries in the fields of environmental law, community planning, natural capitalism, and low carbon business practices. The event, scheduled in Miami on August 28th, is presented by Climate Culture, Inc., a sustainability consulting boutique...
NEW YORK, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaye Scholer LLP announced that Madeleine M. L. Tan has joined the firm's Corporate & Finance Department as a Partner in its New York office, effective August 1, 2008. Ms. Tan has extensive experience advising equity investors, lenders, project developers, alternative...
Green Energy Resources Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GRGR) plans three (3) new ports. Two of the ports are located in NewJersey, one in the Philadelphia vicinity, and the 3rd on Long Island, NY.The two New Jersey ports are expected to be operational within 90 days andthe Long Island, NY port, before...
First, the price of the EU's credit allowances crashed. Now shares in companies that trade in them are falling too. But getting polluters to change their ways will be a process of trial and error, says Mike Scott Is the carbon market a success or not?...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- During a summer where gas prices continue to hinder travelers, Joie de Vivre Hospitality introduces Keep the Green or Give the Green -- a clever twist to a consistent promotion offered this summer season. The re-vamped promo successfully embraces the "green" movement,...
Despite the slow economy, venture-capital funding of clean-tech start-ups in the USA and abroad is on pace for a record year, according to a report released Tuesday. In the second quarter, venture funding for nearly 100 biofuel, solar, wind and clean-water start-ups hit a quarterly record...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- With a goal of investing $6 billion in renewable energy by 2010, GE Energy Financial Services surpassed the $4 billion mark today by investing in New York State's three newest wind farms. The unit of GE (NYSE: GE) will invest a total of $100...
GreenLife[TM] provides tool for businesses to take responsibility for their environmental impact NEW YORK -- The GreenLife Organization, LLC (www.greenlife.com), a leading provider of carbon offsets and carbon management services announces the launch of its new business calculator providing businesses a simple and effective way...
TOYAKO, Japan AFP — Leaders of the world's top industrial powers ended a summit Wednesday with pledges to act on soaring oil and food prices, but failed to bridge deep differences with poor nations on fighting climate change. US President George W. Bush hailed his last...
Company's Highly Secure Central Project Repository Supports the World's Most Widely Adopted Carbon Standard SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- APX, Inc., the leading infrastructure provider for environmental and energy markets, today announced that the company has been selected as the exclusive solution provider by the Voluntary...
eCommerce Specialist Installs Energy-Efficient Servers and Offsets All Remaining Server-Related Electricity Emissions MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- Guidance (http://www.Guidance.com), which helps online retailers achieve market domination by creating captivating and engaging online shopping experiences, today announced that it is now providing its clients with hosting...
Paul Roszel Chairman of RecycleNet Corporation (OTCBB: GARM) is pleased to announce a potential new revenue stream for anyone who is recycling materials. Using RecycleNet Corporation's innovative Recycling Offset Credits ROCs program, participants can buy and sell ROCs pronounced rocks. RecycleNet Corporation has introduced the Recycling Offset Credits...
STRASBOURG AFP — EU lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to force airlines to rein in their fast-growing greenhouse gas emissions from 2012, infuriating a sector struggling to cope with soaring fuel prices. Under a draft law, all airlines operating in the 27-nation European Union, including foreign...
- Last Date To Earn 2007 Credits - WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- August 15 is the deadline for farm operators with no-till or strip-till cropping practices or new grass plantings to sign up to sell carbon credits and still take advantage of a bonus...
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