AT&T said Wednesday that over the next decade it will replace 15,000 vehicles, or about 20% of its fleet, with cars and trucks powered by compressed natural gas, electricity and other alternative fuels. “AT&T is making the largest-ever commitment by any U.S. company to purchase alternative fuel vehicles,” AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson said Wednesday [...]
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AT&T to put largest green car fleet on road
Posted in alternative energy, corporate green, corporate sustainability, electric cars, green cars, tagged alternative fuel vehicles, AT&T, CNG, electric hybrids on March 11, 2009 | 15 Comments »
The iPhone app that fights global warming
Posted in climate change, corporate sustainability, energy efficiency, environment, global warming, Google, green grid, green startups, green tech, renewable energy, smart grid, Web 2.0, tagged Apple, Google, iPhone, mobile app, Reliant Energy, smart grids, smart meters, Tendril, Tendril Mobile Vantage on March 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Here’s an iPhone app that really could help save the planet while saving stressed consumers’ money: Boulder, Colo.-based startup Tendril this week unveiled a mobile software program that lets people monitor and control their home’s energy use while on the go. Say you’re sitting in the unemployment office listening to some bureaucrat drone on, so [...]
Bill Clinton to speak at Fortune Brainstorm Green
Posted in climate change, corporate green, corporate sustainability, energy, energy efficiency, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, Environmental Defense, global warming, green policy, green startups, IBM, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E, tagged Bill Clinton, Brainstorm Green, Earth Day on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another reason Green Wombat will be spending Earth Day in Southern California this year: Former President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote speech at Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Green conference on April 22. Clinton will be joining a gathering of business and environmental leaders, including Ford (F) executive chairman Bill Ford, PG&E (PCG) chief executive Peter [...]
Green cement
Posted in Acciona, climate change, corporate green, corporate sustainability, energy, environment, global warming, wind power, tagged Acciona, cement, CEMEX, global warming, wind power on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
photo: CEMEX The cement industry’s contribution to global warming is pretty concrete – it’s responsible for 5% of greenhouse gas emissions, fueled by demand from the rapidly industrializing economies of China and India. Now CEMEX, the Mexican building materials giant, has taken steps to green up its operation. Not by changing the way it makes [...]
Report: The dark side of solar
Posted in corporate sustainability, energy, First Solar, solar energy, SunPower, Suntech, tagged recycling, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, solar panels on January 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Solar cells may generate clean green electricity but manufacturing them involves a witches brew of toxic chemicals that could harm the environment if millions of solar panels end up in landfills, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. The California environmental group is calling for solar manufacturers to take back [...]
Greening the petrochemical industry
Posted in climate change, corporate green, corporate sustainability, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, green startups, Uncategorized, tagged 1 4‐butanediol, BDO, Bernhard Palsson, bioengineering, Christophe Schilling, Christopher Gann, Genomatica, green chemicals on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Illustration: Genomatica Outside of ExxonMobil (XOM), petrochemical companies would seem to be the least likely to join the sustainability movement sweeping corporations worldwide. After all, how do you green an industry predicated on petroleum as a key ingredient? The answer, according to San Diego startup Genomatica, is to replace hydrocarbons with carbohydrates. The company is [...]
PG&E chief’s green crusade
Posted in Ausra, BrightSource Energy, climate change, corporate green, corporate sustainability, endangered species, energy, energy efficiency, environment, global warming, green policy, nuclear energy, PG&E, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, Tesla Motors, Think Global, wave power, wind power, tagged electric cars, nuclear energy, Peter Darbee, PG&E, solar energy, solar power plants, Think City, Think Global, vehicle-to-grid, wave energy, wind energy on May 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“Years ago we came to the conclusion that global warming was a problem, it was an urgent problem and the need for action is now. The problem appears to be worse and more imminent today, and the need to take action sooner and take more significant action is greater than ever before” – PG&E Chairman [...]
Greed is green
Posted in carbon credits, carbon neutral, carbon offsets, climate change, corporate sustainability, global warming on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is an article of faith these days that any company worth its public relations budget must proclaim loudly and frequently its good green intentions. So it was rather refreshing to hear one of Richard Branson’s top lieutenants – Will Whitehorn, chief of Virgin Galactic – cast his company’s enviro-friendly initiatives as strictly business. “We’re [...]
HP greens the bottom line
Posted in corporate sustainability on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sun Investors Go Paperless
Posted in corporate sustainability on October 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
