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[Pet Lover Blog] Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to ...: Esty and Winston guide leaders through a complex new world of resource shortfalls, regulatory restrictions, and growing pressure from customers and other stakeholders to strive for sustainability. With a sharp focus on execution, Esty and Winston offer a thoughtful, pragmatic, and inspiring road map that companies can use to cope with environmental pressures and responsibilities while sparking innovation that will drive long-term growth.
[Untitled] Planes, trains and hydrogen-fuelled buses: “The hydrogen production process does produce some emissions, but even when this is taken into account, we still expect to make significant cuts in overall CO2 emissions. We expect hydrogen fuel-cell buses to produce 50 per cent less CO2 than their diesel counterparts, with that figure improving as even greener sources of hydrogen are developed.”
[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: By Patrick Barry, Science News, August 13, 2008. “Power plant emissions”¦ may actually be made worse by capturing the CO2 and pumping it deep underground, a new study reported .
[1853 Chairman] Toyota posts 39% drop in Q1 profit: The company also suffered from increasing defaults in its U.S. auto loan business due to the subprime loan problem, although Toyota started tightening its lending and screening since last autumn, while boosting provisions for writedowns at its leased vehicles segment by 9 billion yen ($82.2 billion).
[Toyota Car Forum (Lexus Corolla Sabaru Camry)] Toyota Motor Corp has opted to push the technology with its new ...: While it remains to be seen whether Toyota will avoid similar bans and potentially crippling conditions with a device specifically engineered for use in busy public places, the auto company claims the official Winglet design will deliver a top motion speed of just 6kph (3.7mph), which is the equivalent of pedestrian walking speed.
[Global Investment Watch] Company Report: Toyota Motor Corp.: executive knocked a video camera out of the hands of an environmental activist posing as another industry official Wednesday at the media preview for the Los Angeles Auto Show, the latest such public effort to pressure major automakers to alter their environmental policies The incident occurred at the end of Toyota’s press conference, where Bob Carter, vice president and general manager of the Toyota division, was asked by the man why Toyota was suing California over carbon-dioxide emissions regulations. Carter knocked the video camera from the man’s hands, and security guards separated the two.
[New America Blogs - New Voices, Innovative Ideas, Post-Partisan Policy] Climate News Roundup: August 1 - August 7, 2008: CO2 PIPELINE: CO2 Pipeline Proposals Start To Gain Interest 8/1/2008 - Carbon dioxide pipelines aren't common outside of the oil patch now, but the notion of a network of pipes crisscrossing the U.S. as part of a system to reduce the nation's emissions of greenhouse gases is gaining ground. Early interest is forming in a web of pipes, comparable to the network in place for natural gas, to move emissions captured from power plants to underground storage sites. Some state and provincial governments are starting to mull transportation options as they study the prospects for carbon sequestration.
[Car Hire Tips UK] Car Hire and the environment. How eco-friendly is it to hire a car?: Hertz have introduced a “green collection” which allows you to choose from a range of cars that offer a weighted CO2 output level of less than 140g/km and achieve 40 - 65 MPG, depending upon vehicle size. This weighted CO2 level is already below the 2008 voluntary levels set by the EU for the European Automobile Manufacturers Association.
[TIM BLAIR BLOG: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON US http://timblair.spaces.live.com . us army vietnam veteran-retired broadcaster blog..] tacoma: Greenhouse gases like CO2 trap and radiate sunlight and heat, so as more of them enter the atmosphere, the global mean temperature rises. To discover, chart, and study the problem -- and then talk to each other about it -- scientists everywhere need to measure atmospheric gases in the same way.
[drivingenthusiast.net] Ford losses 8.7 Billion - and accelerates transformation plans: “We are transforming Ford’s North American manufacturing operations into a lean, flexible system that is fully competitive with the best in the business,” said Mark Fields, Ford president of The Americas. “We remain committed to matching our capacity with real consumer demand, and we are equipping nearly all of our assembly plants with flexible body shops, ensuring we can respond quickly to changing consumer tastes.
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[The icsracing Blog] Ford Reports $8.7 Billion Net Loss For Second Quarter 2008 ...: Ford’s just released two press releases detailing an OMFG $8.7 billion net loss for the second quarter of 2008 (which includes a pre-tax special charge of $8 billion, $5.3 billion of which is for Ford North America). But more importantly to the enthusiast is news they’ll be bringing to North America six European small vehicles built off the global B-car and C-car platforms and converting three large truck and SUV plants to building small cars.
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