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Cement Industry In Demand V. Emissions Battle

Posted by Environmental Leader on 31/05/2008

Cement plants have become more automated, integrated and efficient since Henry Kaiser founded the Kaiser Cement Corporation — now known as Hanson Permanente Cement — in 1939 in the hills above Cupertino, California.But the 11 cement plants in California churn out the stuff in largely ...

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Citi Takes LEED Pre-Certification To The Bank

Posted by Environmental Leader on 31/05/2008

Citi has announced that it is the first company to achieve LEED pre-certification for a retail commercial interior prototype through a pilot USGBC program.Three new CitiFinancial branches in Austin, Texas, Flint, Mich., and Warrington, Penn., are the first Citi branches to be certified in this pi ...

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Some Consumers Green in Action, Others in Theory

Posted by Environmental Leader on 31/05/2008

While 46 percent of U.S. adults say they neither think nor act Green, the two percent of the population who are self-described Green Advocates are among the most tech-savvy consumers, according to Mediamark Research & Intelligence’s Survey of the American Consumer.The six consumer segme ...

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Brazil: Visible and Invisible Indians and Scoops

Posted by Jose Murilo Junior on 31/05/2008

Brazilian Indians were in the spotlight of world media this week. From the images of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon, to the enraged protest caught on camera against the building of dams along the Xingu River in the Amazon basin where an official of Brazils national electric company got slashed b ...

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Plastic bag plan takes effect in China

Posted by Kelly Proctor on 31/05/2008

Starting June 1, the Chinese government's country-wide plan to make shoppers pay small fees for plastic bags, and to forbid the production of ultra-thin bags will take effect. The move should save China 37 million barrels of oil a year. NGOs have been into the act earlier, pushing for relief fro ...

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