Not surprisingly, fewer consumers are buying green products. An extensive survey conducted by Grail Research finds that almost two-thirds (65 percent) of consumers changed their green buying habits due to the “Great Recession.” Continue Reading

Though the package volume handled by UPS last year rose, the company’s latest annual Sustainability Report shows a reduction in the amount of fuel used to deliver each package. From 2009 to 2010, package volume grew 1.8 percent, while fuel consumption per package dropped 3.3 percent. Several factors were cited in this improvement, such as routing technologies, load optimization, monitoring and managing driver behaviors–particularly with Continue Reading

Only a small portion of dairy fleets are participants in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay Program, but a relatively new group aims to change that. E-Smart, a project that unites transportation experts to address challenges specific to dairy transport, wants to get these fleets on board to help cut the industry’s transportation carbon dioxide emissions by 165,000 metric tons annually, potentially saving 16.5 million gallons of Continue Reading