IGPN - International Green Purchasing Network

Newsletter [No. 7]

Newsletter [No. 7]
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IGPN NEWSLETTER [Issue 7]
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HEADLINES
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-Bottled Water Boom Appears Tapped Out
-How Green Is Rail Travel?
-Al Gore "Green Purchasing" .eco domain?
-Are Green Banks a Good Idea?
-Yahoo, but not Google, Stops Buying Green Anymore
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Bottled Water Boom Appears Tapped Out
Sales of bottled water have fallen for the first time in at least five years.

How Green Is Rail Travel?
Eurostar is Europe’s high-speed train service. Britain’s government plans the investment of billions of pounds in a new high-speed rail network. The Obama administration has budgeted billions of dollars to build similar networks. But do all forms of train travel really offer such dramatic gains?http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/

Al Gore "Green Purchasing" .eco domain?
Al Gore is at loggerheads with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Russian ex-president, over the rights to control a new “green” internet domain – .eco – that could be worth billions.

Are Green Banks a Good Idea?
This isn't exactly green purchasing. It's more like 'green lending.'

Yahoo, but not Google, Stops Buying Green Anymore
"While Google plans to stick with offsets, Yahoo will top buying them and instead will focus on energy efficiency," according to Josie Garthwaite of GigaOM.

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