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Blue Sun First Energy Co. Headquartered In LEED Platinum Building

Blue Sun First Energy Co. Headquartered In LEED Platinum Building
Blue Sun Biodiesel is the first energy company headquartered in a LEED Platinum certified office building, of which there are 26 in ...

Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings

Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings
Taco Bell plans to install new "Grill-To-Order" cooking machines in all of their locations to reduce water and energy use and improve ...

Philadelphia Phillies ‘Green Power’ Champs Of National League

Philadelphia Phillies ‘Green Power’ Champs Of National League
The Philadelphia Phillies have purchased 20 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) to serve the ball club's 43,500-seat Citizens Bank Park, ...

Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World

Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World
In a depiction of some of the world's largest energy projects, Forbes.com takes readers to Bahrain, where, a few ...

KKR Partners With EDF On ‘Green Portfolio’ Project

KKR Partners With EDF On ‘Green Portfolio’ Project
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company and Environmental Defense Fund announced a new partnership to help ...

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas
As part of a joint venture, The Linde Group and Houston-based Waste Management have announced they will build the ...

Sony Pictures Chooses 365 Main’s Renewable Energy Program

Sony Pictures Chooses 365 Main’s Renewable Energy Program
Sony Pictures Entertainment has become the first customer of data center operator 365 Main to sign up for ...

Mexico’s First LEED Gold Rating: HSBC Tower

Mexico’s First LEED Gold Rating: HSBC Tower
The HSBC Tower in downtown Mexico City is the first building in Latin America to receive LEED Gold certification from the Mexico ...

AIA Picks Top Sustainable Building Designs

AIA Picks Top Sustainable Building Designs
This year’s top picks for the best green building projects of the year from the American Institute of Architects Committee on ...

Solar Tech Financiers In Race To Keep On Crest Of Solar Wave

Solar Tech Financiers In Race To Keep On Crest Of Solar Wave
A growing number of young companies are spending their brain power on software and financing, rather than photovoltaics, GreenTechBlog ...

American Apparel Makes Big Cleaner Cotton Purchase

American Apparel Makes Big Cleaner Cotton Purchase
American Apparel is one of the latest garment manufacturers to extend its sustainable practices by joining forces with ...

Siemens’ Sacramento Light Rail Manufacturing Facility Going Solar

Siemens’ Sacramento Light Rail Manufacturing Facility Going Solar
Siemens Transportation Systems Inc. has approved the installation of a 1 megawatt solar energy system at its Sacramento light ...

Concrete Recycler Grinds Toward Sustainability With Largest Solar Installation in San Jose

The Star Quality Concrete solar installation in downtown San Jose, Calif., will be the largest commercial solar power system in the area, ...

Safeway Unveils Two New Solar-Powered Stores, Releases CSR Report

Safeway Unveils Two New Solar-Powered Stores, Releases CSR Report
As part of its Earth Day celebration, Safeway Inc., one of the largest retail users of renewable energy, unveiled ...

FedEx Installs Solar Power Systems

FedEx Installs Solar Power Systems
FedEx Freight has installed a solar power system in Whittier, California, and is nearing completion on a similar solar-powered ...

AEP Orders Hybrid Utility Trucks

AEP Orders Hybrid Utility Trucks
American Electric Power has ordered its largest number of hybrid trucks to date - 18 International DuraStar ...

Dole Offsets Transport of Bananas and Pineapples in Costa Rica

Dole Offsets Transport of Bananas and Pineapples in Costa Rica
Dole says that its operating division in Costa Rica will purchase carbon offsets from the Costa Rican Government's program ...

Macy’s Switches To Recycled Paper Bags, Eco-Friendly Packaging

Macy’s Switches To Recycled Paper Bags, Eco-Friendly Packaging
Macy's will begin using recycled paper shopping bags at its Macy's stores, as well as biodegradable packaging for its ...

24 Strategies For Green Buildings

24 Strategies For Green Buildings
The Building Owners and Managers Association International has put together 24 strategies for increasing sustainability and optimizing performance in ...

Lighting Top Purchase For Increasing Energy Efficiency

Lighting Top Purchase For Increasing Energy Efficiency
Twenty-two percent of respondents to a ChangeWave survey say their company is very concerned about reducing its corporate energy usage and ...

Today's News

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible

At Yahoo! headquarters, we recently installed an interactive touch screen next to our corporate cafeteria. The Green Screen, as we fondly ... continue »

Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
Let ‘Lean’ Guide You To ‘Green’
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Seventy-one percent of North Americans want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands they buy - but the majority of ...

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eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

As plastic bags litter China's countryside the government is putting the pressure on the manufacturers, good news for China's cloth bag industry....

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Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Hi-Tech

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies

Efficiency

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Airlines Add Minutes To Flights, Save Millions On Fuel

Manufacturing

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

AEP Corporate Sustainability Report Outlines Challenges, Performance

Major Players

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas

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