Population, consumption key to climate solutions.
Byline: Bob Doppelt For The Register-Guard In his inaugural address, President Obama said he would deal with the climate crisis. Remarkably, he also mentioned the need to examine our consumption. If population also becomes a focus, we finally may be able to respond to the climate crisis...

A Signal of Economic Woes to Come? Growth in Beverage Alcohol Consumption in Restaurant and Bars Ebbed in 2007.
Shift to Lower-Priced Options Began in September NORWALK, Conn., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A slowdown in spirits, wine and beer consumption in restaurants and bars during 2007 may have been a harbinger of economic woes to come, according to data in the Cheers On-Premise Handbook 2008 published...

Wesabe and WattzOn Unite to Help Consumers Quantify and Reduce Their Personal Energy Consumption.
SAN FRANCISCO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Social personal finance website Wesabe and personal energy tracker WattzOn today announced a partnership to help consumers more easily quantify, understand and reduce their personal energy consumption. WattzOn will use Wesabe's technology to facilitate the automatic upload of consumers' utility...

As global wine consumption rises, U.S. could take lead.
Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports Global wine consumption, on the rise in past years, is forecast to continue to grow in the coming ones, with the United States overtaking Italy as the world's biggest consumer by 2012, according to a report released Tuesday by the...

365 Main San Francisco Customers Reduce Energy Consumption With Help from PG&E Virtualization Incentive Program.
Optimized Environments Also Free Up Capacity in Nation's Top Data Center Market SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Data center developer and operator 365 Main (http://www.365main.com/) announced today that, due in part to customer participation in a PG&E-run incentive program to reduce energy consumption through the use...

Frost & Sullivan: Climate Change and Soaring Fossil-Fuel Consumption Create Opportunities for Energy Service Companies.
LONDON, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite the economic downturn and consequent dip in investments from financial institutions, the politicization of the energy crisis has evoked renewed interest in energy efficiency from institutional investors. Energy management, the immediate scaleable option to counter the crisis, has resulted in an exponential increase...

Desire for Performance Coupled With Natural Ingredients Boosts Botanical Actives Consumption in Personal Care.
-- The move from synthetic ingredients to more "natural" ingredients should be regarded as a driver for cosmetic and toiletry ingredients market. -- LITTLE FALLS, N.J., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Kline & Company's study Specialty Actives and Active Delivery Systems for Personal Care 2008: U.S....

Honeywell Receives Department of Energy Contract to Help Reduce Energy Consumption and Costs.
Worth Up to $5 Billion, New Contract Builds on 30-Year History Delivering Energy Services to the Federal Government MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Honeywell today announced that it has received an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) from the Department of Energy. The...

HotelWorld Network Announces New Marketplace Strategy.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Questex Media Group, Inc. announced today its new strategy to align its hotel media products to the evolving information needs and consumption trends of its target audience. A new component of this strategy is the launch of a comprehensive portal web site (http://www.hotelworldnetwork.com/) which...

Ricoh Demonstrates Embedded Intelligence System for Monitoring Networked Multifunction Products.
New Solution Works Seamlessly with IBM's Tivoli Software to Manage Energy Consumption and Lower Total Cost of Ownership LAS VEGAS, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced the preliminary showing of its new embedded intelligence technology with IBM's...