JPMorgan Chase announced today additional strategies to reduce its global carbon footprint. By increasing energy efficiencies in its facilities worldwide, purchasing energy from renewable sources, and educating employees on energy conservation, the firm aims to cut its global emissions 20% by 2012 using 2005 baseline. In addition, the firm will offset 100% of all employee air travel.
FedEx Corp. today announced that its operating company FedEx Freight has completed the installation of a solar-electric system in Whittier, Calif., and is nearing completion on a similar solar-powered facility in Fontana, Calif. Both systems will provide a substantial portion of the facilities' peak energy needs.
SunChips, Frito-Lay's popular line of multigrain snacks, is living up to its name by using solar energy to help make some of the snacks at its Modesto, Calif. manufacturing facility. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurated the new solar field today on Earth Day.
As part of its ongoing commitment to the preservation of the environment, action sports leader Sole Technology, parent company of etnies, eS, Emerica, ThirtyTwo and Altamont apparel, today announced the results of its first corporate eco-audit to measure the company's overall carbon footprint, and its goal of becoming a carbon neutral company by the year 2020.
SolarCity, California's leading provider of solar power systems, on Earth Day announced a new solar power option that can make clean, renewable energy less expensive for homeowners than electricity from their utility company. The company is extending its unprecedented $0-down solar financing option to the majority of its California service area beginning today and extending until July 31, 2008.
BBI International, a leader in renewable energy and sustainable development, has chosen Olive Software, a global leader in electronic publishing and digital archiving technologies, to provide digital editions of its Ethanol Producer Magazine, Biomass Magazine, and Biodiesel Magazine.
Chicago's Sopraffina Marketcaffe today is celebrating Earth Day with the unveiling of a new, first-of-its-kind, 100 percent solar-electric powered catering vehicle.
J.I.C. Technology Company Ltd to be renamed as Hong Kong Energy Holdings Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HKC (Holdings) Limited, has initiated to invest in three alternative energy projects at the Lunaobao Wind Farm in Hebei, the Siziwang Qi Wind Farm in Inner Mongolia, and a pilot cellulosic ethanol project.
Hydro is investing NOK 50 million in Convexa, a Norwegian venture fund specializing in technology companies working within the field of solar energy.
For the first time, Siemens has received orders for the supply of wind turbines for sites in Poland. RWE Innogy, the new renewable energy unit established by the German utility RWE, has ordered 33 units from Siemens, each with a capacity of 2.3 megawatts (MW).
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