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BMW, Toyota, Ford Tout Eco-cars

Posted by Environmental Leader on 06/11/2009

More and more automakers are playing up their hybrid cars, and other environmental progress.In a short trailer about its environmental efforts, BMW touts a zero-emissions car, its water recycling initiatives and factories powered by renewable energy.Here’s how Toyota is promoting its hybrid ...

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Disney Buys $7M in Reforestation Offsets, a Corporate Record

Posted by Environmental Leader on 05/11/2009

Walt Disney Corp., by donating about $7 million to various conservation programs, aims to offset a portion of its emissions. Some are calling the move by Disney the biggest single corporate investment in forest carbon offsets to date.The move is part of Disney’s effort to use “high qu ...

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Partisan Bickering Puts Climate Bill in Jeopardy

Posted by Environmental Leader on 03/11/2009

A key U.S. Senate panel, controlled by Democrats, will begin debating a climate change bill this week despite a planned boycott by minority Republicans who demand more study of the issue, including economic costs on utilities, factories and oil refineries, reports Reuters.Senator Barbara Boxer, t ...

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Chesapeake Energy Changes Natural Gas Drilling Over Water Concerns

Posted by Environmental Leader on 03/11/2009

Due to environmental concerns over safe drinking water, Chesapeake Energy Corp. has agreed not to drill for natural gas within the New York City watershed, a small area within the Marcellus Shale natural gas reserve, which includes some of the Appalachian regions of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, ...

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EcoGods: Indonesian granny leads war against trash in Jakarta

Posted by DeshRaj on 02/11/2009

I suppose you are familiar with the green maxim: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Now it is time to make another addition, i.e. Replant, to the aphorism. Coming from an Indonesian granny, Harini Bambang Wahono, now 78, the cliche has been successfully...

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