Suncor-Green Giant

Suncor
Location: Canada
Year founded: 1917
Revenue: $13.6 Billion
Employees: 5,500

Measures the environmental impact of each project. Finding black gold is a dirty job - particularly when it's buried in tar sands. But Suncor still stands out for how it does the job. Its environmental and social efforts have earned it membership in the Dow Jones sustainability index and the British equivalent, the FTSE4Good. In a survey of 23 global oil companies last year, Jantzi Research, a Canadian consultancy, named Suncor a top performer, noting its environmental and greenhouse-gas management programs. Specifically, it has improved emissions intensity (the amount of oil it extracts per ton of greenhouse gases emitted) 25 percent since 1990. Ditto for energy, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Suncor is part of an initiative to develop carbon-capture techniques. And while Suncor hopes to double its production by 2012, its water management is so advanced that it expects to draw no additional water from Alberta's Athabasca River.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0703/gallery.green_giants.fortune/3.html

Continental-Green Giant

Continental Airlines
Location: Houston
Year founded: 1934
Revenue: $13.1 Billion
Employees: 44,000

Worked with Boeing to engineer more fuel-efficient aircraft. AMID RISING concern about aviation pollution, British Airways introduced a "CO2 emission calculator" on its website, letting passengers pay to offset the carbon dioxide generated by their flights. Lufthansa recently equipped an Airbus A340 with a 1.5-ton mobile laboratory to track gases and compounds. But it is American airline Continental that's gone furthest to green operations. Besides spending more than $16 billion over the past ten years to replace its fleet with more efficient aircraft, it installed fuel-saving winglets that reduce emissions by up to 5% on most of its Boeing 737s and 757s, and reduced the nitrogen oxide output from ground equipment at its Houston hub by over 75% since 2000. Its 13 full-time staff environmentalists work with engine manufacturers, design green terminals, and track carbon emissions and chemical recycling daily. Even all the trash from company headquarters is later sorted for recyclables.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0703/gallery.green_giants.fortune/2.html

Honda-Green Giant

Honda
Location: Japan
Year founded: 1945
Revenue: $84.2 Billion
Employees: 145,000

The most fuel-efficient auto company in the U.S. While other automakers gripe, Honda attacks the issues of fuel economy and emissions with relish. Working independently, it is focusing on two alternative fuel technologies, the natural gas powered "Civic GX" and the hydrogen fuel cell "FCX." Honda has also taken a crack at solving a problem other automakers have left to the oil companies: creating an infrastructure for hydrogen. Honda's solution is for individual refueling stations that provide heat and electricity for the home as well as hydrogen for a fuel-cell-powered car. Long term, Honda wants to be the world's cleanest, most efficient manufacturer. It has promised to reduce CO2 emissions from its factories as well as its vehicles by 5 percent between 2005 and 2010 - on top of the 5 percent it achieved between 2000 and 2005.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0703/gallery.green_giants.fortune/index.html

10 Green Giants

Fortune Magazine recently published an article about 10 green giants. The subsequent posts will detail each green company and why they are considered green. The list of ten includes the following companies:

HONDA
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES

SUNCOR

TESCO

ALCAN
PG&E

S.C. JOHNSON

GOLDMAN SACHS

SWISS RE

HEWLETT-PACKARD

Tell us what you think? Who is missing from this list? Who should be removed from this list? To view the entire article go to http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/goinggreen/2007/index.html

Welcome to A Greener Tomorrow Starts Today!!!

Welcome to A Greener Tomorrow Starts Today! The intent of this blog is twofold. First, we want to recognize those companies that are doing the right thing by becoming more sustainable. We encourage everyone to support the companies that are striving to reduce their impact and hopefully the rest of corporate america will catch on. Second, we want to show everyone how simple it is to make personal changes that help reduce your personal environmental impact. You will find a host a postings that will help you in your efforts to make tomorrow's world greener and cleaner. Soon you find posts and articles about companies who are making progress with improving their impact on the environment. You will find helpful articles about green products. You will also be able find useful links with ideas about reducing your own personal environmental impact. We hope you enjoy the information found on this blog and together we can do something special.