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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Politics/Money_and_politics_task_force

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Environment/Environmental_Record_Task_Force

FedEx Environmental Section
"In 2003, FedEx partnered with the Department of Homeland Security and Northrop Grumman to develop and flight test an anti-missile system, the Northrop Grumman Guardian that could be deployed on commercial airliners, to protect them from terrorist attacks such as occurred in the 2003 Baghdad DHL shootdown incident. FedEx supplied an MD-11 and a leased 747 for the flight test phase. They then became the first air carrier to deploy the Guardian on a commercial flight in September, 2006, when it equipped one of its MD-10 freighters with the pod,[9] and subsequently equipped eight more aircraft for evaluation purposes."[10]

[edit] Political donations From 1997 to 2002, FedEx was the title sponsor of Champ Car World Series when it was known as CART. The series was known as the CART FedEx Championship Series, which led to the official "Champ Car" designation in reference to the fact they were the FedEx Championship. FedEx became the sponsor of the #11 NASCAR Nextel Cup Chevy owned by Joe Gibbs Racing in 2005. FedEx uses four (predominantly black) paint schemes to showcase its different products (Express, Freight, Ground, and FedEx Kinko's), and in 2005 also ran a special scheme to promote a charity event at the FedEx St. Jude Classic golf tournament. FedEx sponsors the Formula 1 Team McLaren. The two cars on the team are driven by Lewis Hamilton of Britain and Heikki Kovalainen of Finland. Prior to that FedEx has sponsored Ferrari, Benetton (now Renault) and Williams F1.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14763

"Hailed as an environmental pioneer, FedEx (FDX ) says on its Web site that it is "committed to the use of innovations and technologies to minimize greenhouse gases." With 70,000 ground vehicles and 670 planes burning fuel, the world's largest shipper is a huge producer of heat-trapping gases. Back in 2003, FedEx announced that it would soon begin deploying clean-burning hybrid trucks at a rate of 3,000 a year, eventually sparing the atmosphere 250,000 tons of greenhouse gases annually from diesel-engine vehicles. "This program has the potential to replace the company's 30,000 medium-duty trucks over the next 10 years," FedEx announced at the time. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the effort a Clean Air Excellence prize in 2004.

Four years later, FedEx has purchased fewer than 100 hybrid trucks, or less than one-third of one percent of its fleet."

1) 70,000 ground vehicles and 670 planes burning fuel

2) the world's largest shipper

3) 2003, 3,000 hybrid trucks per year

4) 2007, 100 hybrid trucks, overall; less than one-third of one percent

Acterra http://www.acterra.com

Acterra: Action for a sustainable earth, is a Green team program of collective neighbors in a community, of the Bay area, working towards a local solution for a healthy environment. Acterra provides opportunities for people to impact their environment where they live, work, and play. Acterra offers a calender of events so as to promote invovment from the community, for the community, that all is encouraged to take part in.