Going Green Blog

The man suspected
of murdering an Austin priest confessed to the crime,
but insisted the two were lovers, Mexican authorities say.

My brolly got mangled in the wind recently, so I popped into Marks & Spencer for a replacement. I was delighted to find I could get one made out of recycled yarn. It didn’t cost any more than the others, in fact less than some equivalents, so it begs the obvious question - why aren’t they all made of recycled material?

Carbon-intensive mutual funds will become big losers in a carbon-constrained economy because a price on emissions will increase the cost of doing business for the companies in their portfolios, according to Trucost, which ranked the country’s largest funds based on their carbon footprints.

The number of companies joining a U.N. corporate responsibility initiative last year grew 30 percent, but they lag in extending their commitments to their supply chains and subsidiaries.

FedEx Express and commercial truck-maker Iveco say their road test of 10 hybrid vans in Italy has shown a 26.5 percent drop in fuel consumption and a reduction of 7.5 tons in CO2 emissions in six months of testing.

How many times have you conducted a survey to test consumer likelihood to buy a product or product, and seen encouraging propensity numbers, only to have actual purchase/participation not bear out like the survey predicted? It happens all the time, particularly in the green arena — and it doesn’t have to be that way, says Suzanne Shelton.

The world’s biggest oil companies are not only not investing heavily in alternative energy sources yet, but some are actively scaling back their green programs, according to a new report in the New York Times.

One of the easiest but most-overlooked ways to green any office comes down to managing your paper use. Whether you’re trying to switch to duplex printing or moving toward a low-paper ECM system, here are some simple steps you can take.

One hundred eleven teams fielding 136 vehicles get the green flag to compete for a $10 million purse in the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE contest to build a production-ready vehicle that can travel more than 100 miles on a gallon of fuel.

Pro sports is going for green in a big way this spring: The Atlanta Braves and Coca-Cola Enterprises are making a strong pitch for recycling. The American Airlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat, and the Philips Arena, the lair of the Atlanta Hawks, Thrashers and the Dream, have won LEED certification. And NBA players are planting trees and chatting with kids about the virtues of environmental responsibility.