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Ball Corp. Receives Sustainable Packaging Leadership Awards for PET Wine Bottles

Ball Corporation has received two Sustainable Packaging Leadership Awards for its 750mL PET wine bottles for Painted Turtle wines from Artisan Wine Company of British Columbia.

8 May 2008

Minimizing the Carbon Footprint of the Trucking Industry

Schneider National, Inc., a premier provider of transportation, intermodal and logistics services and the nation's largest truckload carrier, announced today its plans to operate the most energy-efficient fleet in the industry.

8 May 2008

Programs Named as 2008 Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards Winners

Five area environmental programs have been named as the winners of the 2008 Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards, announced today by Dominion and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council.

7 May 2008

Global Sustainability Initiative will Reduce Corporation’s Carbon Footprint

Millipore Corporation, a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced a global Sustainability Initiative - an ambitious effort aimed at reducing the company's environmental impacts and carbon footprint by 20 percent over five years.

7 May 2008

America's First Platinum LEED CS High Rise Office Buildings

Westfield Development Company has begun construction of the Denver central business district's first major high-rise office building in more than two decades.

7 May 2008

Water Conservation and Management are Massive Global Concerns

On May 13, 2008, the 5th World Water Forum, the largest water-related event in the world, will be presented during the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16) in New York, with a special emphasis on its political dimension.

7 May 2008

Vehicle Fuel Use Expected to Rise to 765 Billion Liters Per Year by 2035

It is possible to slash fuel use by all vehicles on U.S. roads to pre-2000 levels within a few decades, but doing so would require immediate action on several challenging fronts, according to a new analysis by MIT researchers.

7 May 2008

Ford Doubling Number of Vehicles Equipped with Fuel-Efficient Automatic Transmissions

The big shift is on at Ford Motor Company, as the automaker plans to more than double the number -- to 1.4 million -- of fuel-efficient, 6-speed automatic transmissions in its North American cars and trucks by the end of 2009.

7 May 2008

Calvert Ranks Top Builders on Environmental and Sustainable Practices

Despite some encouraging environmental and energy-efficiency developments in recent years, none of America's 13 largest publicly traded homebuilders has "fully embraced the emerging market of sustainable building design and construction," according to a major new study by Calvert

6 May 2008

Experts Join GBL as Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer

Green Biologics Ltd (GBL), the Oxfordshire industrial biotechnology company developing renewable chemicals, today announced the appointments of Sean Sutcliffe as Chief Executive and Kristan Wadrop as Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. Mr Sutcliffe succeeds founder and former CEO, Dr Edward Green, who becomes Chief Technical Officer.

6 May 2008