Australian ISP Internode has allocated $3 million to build a 'green' data centre as part of the company's conservation efforts. Read more »
State farmers can join carbon credit program (The Capital Times)
Barney Lavin is a fifth-generation farmer in western Racine County who tries to run his 250-acre Angus cow-calf and grain operation in an environmentally friendly way. Lavin, 57, has restored some land to wetlands and last year went a step further -- by enrolling 31 acres in the Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program, in which credits are bought and sold on the Chicago Climate Exchange. Other ... Read more »
The Hindu Business Line : Fluorescent lamps tender: Domestic companies may not bite Rlys bait (The Hindu)
New Delhi, July 14 If this innovative model gets off the ground, Indian Railways could end up gifting its employees 26 lakh compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) over the next four years as well as earn carbon revenues. Read more »
WIDE ANGLE Looks at a Green Entrepreneur’s Carbon Credit Scheme to Fight Global Warming – and Turn a Profit (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Every hour, areas equivalent to 300 soccer fields are cut down and burned in Indonesia's rain forests to clear land for oil palm trees and other crops. New studies show that the devastation of these jungles has helped to make Indonesia the world's third-largest emitter of harmful greenhouse gasses - exceeded only by the U.S. and China. Read more »