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 ...
ASHRAE Launches Prototype Building Energy Label
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has released its prototype building energy labeling program at its 2009 Annual Conference in Louisville, ...
Steel Producers Launch Green Campaign
Underscoring the steel industry's effort to reduce its CO2 emissions, the World Steel Association (worldsteel) has launched its Climate Action recognition program that recognizes steel producers ...
Nortel, SunChips Win Effies for Eco Campaigns
Nortel Networks has earned a Gold Effie Award in the "David vs. Goliath" category with its energy-efficiency marketing campaign, while Frito-Lay's SunChips brand won the bronze ...
Global Environment Fund, E+Co Top Sustainable Investor List
U.S.-based Global Environment Fund and E+Co were named the top two sustainable investment groups by the Financial Times, which recently unveiled its list of top ...
Full Sail, New Belgium Breweries Push Sustainability
Two of the top national microbreweries are making visible pushes into sustainability. Full Sail Brewing has been named one of the top 100 green companies in Oregon ...
ConAgra, P&G Among Honorees for Sustainable Packaging
The winners of the 21st DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation for consumer goods include some of the biggest brands in the industry such as Estee Lauder, Whole ...
Dell, HP, Better Place, Tririga Earn Sustainability Awards
Proctor & Gamble, Dell, HP, Better Place, Tririga, Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance and Harris Corp. are the winners of the 2009 AMR Research Leadership Awards. The ...
IBM, Sun Top Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge
The first results of the Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge reveal that IBM and Sun Microsystems are the top ranking companies, with scores of 29 out of 100. ...
Forster Tops UK’s 60 Best Green Companies Ranking
Times Online releases its second annual list of the best green companies in the UK. This year, the Green List has been expanded from 50 to ...
EPA Launches Energy Star Ratings for Servers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has introduced its Energy Star for Servers program to make it easier for buyers to identify energy-efficient systems, reports ...
Energy Star Building Designs Jump 60%
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), together with American Institute of Architects (AIA), has recognized 75 new commercial building design projects for their energy efficiency under ...
Global Sustainable Product Standards Sought
The Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments and the Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS) have formed an educational partnership to advance global sustainable product standards. The ...
Five Green Business Leaders to Watch
Reuters News and Venture Capital Journal have selected five decision makers who will lead green business in technology, energy usage and climate change in the months ...
Hilton Hotels Go Green
Hilton Hotels Corp. is making strides in meeting its sustainability goals set in 2008. Most recently, the hotel chain earned green lodging certification for one hotel ...
110 More Kohl’s Stores Earn Energy Star Rating
Kohl's Department Stores has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR label for 110 additional stores, and became the first specialty department store to ...
Citi Achieves First LEED Platinum Data Center
Citi's newly completed 230,000-square foot data center in Frankfurt, Germany, is the first to earn the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum rating from the ...
Intel Leads Ranking of Top 50 Green Power Purchasers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its updated quarterly ranking of the Top 50 Green Power Purchasers in the United States. Intel comes in ...
DOE Announces $3.3B in Grants for Smart-Grid Initiatives
Amidst a backdrop of increasing renewable electricity demand from consumers and questions about the ability of electrical grids to handle the extra power sources, the U.S. Department ...
Sprint Receives $7.3 M DOE Grant for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Deployment
Sprint has been awarded a $7.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding earmarked ...
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Tom Stacy on National Grid Again Rejects High Costs of Offshore Wind
"Each time government entices big money investment away from riskier, but clearly..."
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Trade Association on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
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Gary Markowitz on Supermarkets Tackle Emissions Reductions, Fuel Efficiency
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Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"The survey respondents (the PDF report mentions 4,000 respondents in 38..."