Akeena Solar Brings Solar Power to Star Quality Concrete, Boosts Sustainable Concrete Recycling Process

LOS GATOS, Calif. - Akeena Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKNS), a leading designer and installer of solar power systems, today announced the Star Quality Concrete project. This installation will be the largest commercial solar power system in San Jose.

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NEW YORK - Today Moishe’s Moving and Storage Systems announced that they are going green. The eco-friendly move makes Moishe’s the first all-green moving company on the East Coast.

The company believes this year’s Earth Day is a fitting kick-off to a year-long transition into total green operations. Over the next year Moishe’s will institute changes that will significantly cut back on waste and conserve massive amounts of energy. The company will environmentally optimize their corporate offices, institute new moving supplies rental programs, and introduce green-incentives for their employees before the end of 2008. The entire fleet of Moishe’s moving trucks will be converted to bio-fuel by the end of 2009.

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160 Earth Day events in 27 countries launch company’s global initiative to green 300 communities and plant one million trees in the next two years

STRATHAM, N.H. - Recognizing the positive social and environmental impact that green spaces have on communities, this Earth Day Timberland announces a global commitment to green 300 communities in the next two years, and to plant one million trees by 2010.

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KWT Offers Pure-Play Leadership in Tracking Global Solar Energy Industry

NEW YORK - New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global marked Earth Day today by launching Market Vectors – Solar Energy ETF (KWT) on the American Stock Exchange®. This new exchange-traded fund (ETF) is among the first solar ETFs listed in the U.S., and is unique in the degree of pure-play exposure it provides to the global solar industry. KWT seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Ardour Solar Energy IndexSM (SOLRX), the pure-play leader in tracking the solar industry. KWT’s total net expense ratio is 0.65%.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eastman Kodak Company today announced that it has made substantial progress towards its “Responsible Growth” goals. These goals were established two years ago after the company surpassed, ahead of schedule, all of its existing manufacturing-focused health, safety and environmental (HSE) improvement goals.

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Global firm aims to cut emissions over the next four years by 20% using 2005 baseline and offset 100% of employee air travel

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–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.

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Ground Transportation Leader Demonstrates Sustainable Business Practices from the Inside Out

BOSTON - The U.S. Green Building Council has recognized BostonCoach, a leading ground transportation and transportation-management company, with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver certification for its new corporate headquarters. After a three-month construction project, BostonCoach associates took occupancy of the 23,652-square-foot space in the Boston Seaport District in December, 2007.

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