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By turning white in warmer weather and thus reflecting light, a new breed of roof tiles could save companies energy. In the winter, conversely, ...
Stop Cooling the Data Center
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Greener Dawn Building Goes Carbon Neutral
After relocating to a building that takes advantage of natural ventilation to reduce heating and cooling bills, and purchasing carbon credits to ...
Signage Businesses Adopt Eco-Friendly Inks, Materials
Businesses that provide signage solutions and other promotional materials are now starting to use environmentally-friendly inks, along with recyclable materials, thanks in part to HP's latest ...
Sony Electronics HQ Boasts Solar, LEED Construction
The new Sony Electronics headquarters building in San Diego uses solar-equipped parking structures to defray some of the facility's electric needs. Built to LEED standards - but not yet certified - the 455,000 square foot building ...
Study Quantifies Carbon Mitigation of Green Roofs
Extensive adoption of green roofs in a million-person city could capture 55,000 tons of CO2 annually, according to a two-year study from Michigan State University. Prior to ...
New Produce Carton Uses 21% Less Fiber
A new breed of fresh produce carton from Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. uses 21 percent less fiber and has as good or better stacking ...
Reno’s Peppermill Resort Pumps $8.1M into Geothermal
Tapping into clean renewable geothermal energy, the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino in Reno, Nev., has a solution to cover 100 percent of the facility's hot ...
Elevator, Escalator ‘Cruise Control’ Can Save 34% in Power
Installing efficiency controllers to the electric motors of elevators and escalators can help reduce the waste associated with such people movers that more often ...
Minnesota’s Target Center Completes Green Roof
At 2.5 acres, the green roof atop the Target Center in the Twin Cities is the nation's fifth-largest and the first installed on a North American ...
What’s so ‘Free’ About Free Cooling?
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American Life Green Roof to Cut Cooling Costs 20-30%
A vegetative roof atop the headquarters of American Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Kentucky will reduce heating and cooling needs by 20-30 percent. The green roof, ...
From the White House to the Green House
President Obama plans to upgrade the White House, with the goal of obtaining LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The Federal Energy Management ...
USGBC Wants an Environmental Label for Every Building
Every building in the U.S. should have a label as to its environmental impact, said the U.S. Green Building Council's president at the Healthy Buildings meeting. ...
Green Buildings Combine Healthy Living with Energy Savings
Whether it's a commercial or residential green building project that is designed from the ground up to be eco-friendly or an energy-efficient retrofit, developers are realizing ...
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Calling sustainability the new luxury, the president of Audi America said that Audi hopes to be the top luxury carmaker in the world by 2015, based ...
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Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
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