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U.S. Leads In Wind Power Production

U.S. Leads In Wind Power Production
Although the Congress' failure to extend the production tax credit for the renewable energy industry threatens to slowdown further development, U.S. wind ...

Applied Materials Gets 5-Year Contract From Green Energy Technology

Applied Materials Gets 5-Year Contract From Green Energy Technology
Applied Materials announced this week that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology to support the ...

Plant Powered by Chicken Manure

Plant Powered by Chicken Manure
At Beijing Deqingyuan Chicken Farm Waste Utilization plant, three million chickens are doing their part to help their ...

Crystal Rock’s Solar System Up and Running

Crystal Rock’s Solar System Up and Running
Crystal Rock, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vermont Pure Holdings, announced this week that the company's 300kW solar photovoltaic ...

Dell Reaches Carbon Neutral Goal 5 Months Ahead Of Plans

Dell Reaches Carbon Neutral Goal 5 Months Ahead Of Plans
Dell Computer announced this week that it reached its goal of becoming "carbon neutral" five months ahead ...

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DOE Assessments Help 3 Plants Save Over $1.5 Million Combined

DOE Assessments Help 3 Plants Save Over $1.5 Million Combined
The Department of Energy released three new case studies of manufacturing plants participating in its Save Energy Now ...

Johnson Controls Helps Build ‘Green Olympics,’ Wins Big Fed Contracts

Johnson Controls Helps Build ‘Green Olympics,’ Wins Big Fed Contracts
Johnson Controls was awarded many Olympics related contracts in China and since then has been helping the nation realize ...

NewPage Cuts Energy Use with Lighting Retrofit

NewPage Cuts Energy Use with Lighting Retrofit
In late 2006, NewPage Corp. installed a high-efficiency, high intensity fluorescent system to replace the older system in its ...

Sacred Heart Medical Center Designed with Green in Mind

Sacred Heart Medical Center Designed with Green in Mind
The new Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Oregon is touting itself as one of the nation's greenest ...

North Face Plans Solar Energy System

North Face Plans Solar Energy System
The North Face is planning a 1MW solar electricity system at its ...

Kohl’s Earns Energy Star Label at 50 Stores

Kohl’s Earns Energy Star Label at 50 Stores
Kohl's announced it has earned the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star label at seven stores in Colorado, 14 in Illinois, eight ...

IBM Plans to Build Energy Efficient, Adaptive Data Center

IBM Plans to Build Energy Efficient, Adaptive Data Center
IBM announced plans to build a $360 million data center by renovating an existing building at its facility in Research Triangle ...

Pepsi Picks Redemtech to Handle E-waste

Pepsi Picks Redemtech to Handle E-waste
The Pepsi Bottling Group has chosen Redemtech to handle its electronic waste initiatives, which includes developing and ...

Lotus To Raise Wind Turbines At Factory

Lotus To Raise Wind Turbines At Factory
Ecotricity recently received approval to build three wind turbines at Lotus's car factory in Hethel, England. The turbines will ...

BofA To Cut Energy Costs 50% With Energy Management System

BofA To Cut Energy Costs 50% With Energy Management System
Bank of America announced it's investing in Field Diagnostics Services and will deploy the firm's energy management system in 3,300 of ...

iCrete Cementing Its Place in NY High-Rises

iCrete Cementing Its Place in NY High-Rises
A new kind of green concrete is gaining traction in some of Manhattan's high-rises. iCrete touts a 40 ...

Oakland International Purchases CNG-Powered Shuttle Buses

Oakland International Purchases CNG-Powered Shuttle Buses
Oakland International Airport is getting 26 new CNG-powered buses that will be deployed in 2009, replacing older diesel-powered ...

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 ...

Green Bay Packers Launch Environmental Program

Green Bay Packers Launch Environmental Program
The Green Bay Packers recently announced "Packers Green Team," a new program focusing on the use of renewable resources ...

Pickens Set on Turning Texas into Saudi Arabia of Wind

Pickens Set on Turning Texas into Saudi Arabia of Wind
Millionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to turn Texas into the Saudi Arabia of wind, but some question his ...

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Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Green was an obvious color to hang the environmental renaissance on. It was a reclaiming of the old pejorative “greenies” and “treehuggers.” ... continue »

An Eco-Stimulus Package for Our Economy
Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
California’s Leadership in 21st Century Energy Technology
Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Ninety-two percent of respondents to The Global Facility Management Association's recently released Green Practices Study (PDF) say that they are ...

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Consumers Loyal To Brands That Support Good Cause During Recession
‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
California Clean Tech Open Awards
How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

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Marketing

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives

Emissions

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Hi-Tech

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

Efficiency

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

CSR Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

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