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REI, Founding Farmers, North Face Win A.R.E. Sustainability Awards

REI, Founding Farmers, North Face Win A.R.E. Sustainability Awards
REI, Founding Farmers and The North Face are the inaugural winners of the Association for Retail Environments' (A.R.E) Sustainability Awards launched at GlobalShop 2009 to encourage excellence in sustainable retail design. Judges awarded the highest ...

McDonald’s to Tout Green Initiatives On In-Store Touchscreens

McDonald’s to Tout Green Initiatives On In-Store Touchscreens
A new McDonald's scheduled to open next month in North Carolina will include a touch screen display that will tout the environmental benefits of the building. The ...

JCPenney Earns Energy Star Award for Sustained Energy Management

JCPenney Earns Energy Star Award for Sustained Energy Management
JCPenney is the first retailer to earn the ENERGY STAR Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the ...

Wells Gets LEED Pre-Certification For Banks

Wells Gets LEED Pre-Certification For Banks
Wells Fargo says its new banking stores have been pre-certified LEEDSilver by the U.S. Green Building Council. The stores will use about 20 percent less energy and 40 percent less water than conventional ...

Office Depot Opens LEED Pre-Certified Store

Office Depot Opens LEED Pre-Certified Store
Office Depot has opened its first "Green" store in Austin, TX. The store, pre-certified to LEED standards by the USGBC, will use less energy and water in its daily operations, increase recycling ...

Citi Takes LEED Pre-Certification To The Bank

Citi Takes LEED Pre-Certification To The Bank
Citi has announced that it is the first company to achieve LEED pre-certification for a retail commercial interior prototype through a pilot USGBC program. Three new CitiFinancial branches in Austin, Texas, Flint, ...

Office Depot First Retailer To Pre-Certify Store Prototypes With USGBC

Office Depot First Retailer To Pre-Certify Store Prototypes With USGBC
Office Depot is the first company to achieve volume pre-certification under the pilot LEED Portfolio Program for its store prototype design - Office Depot was part of the first group of participants ...

Vestar Launches LEED Retail Development Program

Vestar Launches LEED Retail Development Program
Retail developer Vestar Development has launched GreenStar, a commitment to sustainable shopping center building techniques with the goal of achieving LEED certification for new development projects. The US Green Building Council currently ...

Target Targets Eco-Friendly Prototypes

Target Targets Eco-Friendly Prototypes
Target will build two prototype green certified stores this year and plans to have them at more than 100 locations next year. The Minneapolis-based retailer is building the initial prototypes ...

Stop & Shop, Giant Participate In LEED Portfolio Pilot

Stop & Shop, Giant Participate In LEED Portfolio Pilot
The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company of Quincy, MA, and its sister company, Giant Food of Landover, MD, are participating in the US Green Building Council Portfolio Program pilot for LEED volume certification for existing ...

Best Buy To Build Only Eco-Friendly Stores

Best Buy To Build Only Eco-Friendly Stores
Beginning in early to mid-2008, Best Buy intends to build only eco-friendly stores, certified by the USGBC through LEED Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal reports. Best Buy announced the plan in its recently ...

Starbucks Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Starbucks Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Starbucks Coffee has released its 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility Annual Report (PDF). The company is releasing two versions of it. The abridged version is available now on the company's CSR page and focuses ...

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