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Toyota Announces Utah’s First LEED-certified Dealership

Toyota announced that Mark Miller Toyota is expected to be the first dealership in Utah to receive LEED ...

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Top 10 Low Power Desktop PCs

SmartPlanet recently released a list of the Top 10 Low Power Desktop PCs for consumers. They are ranked ...

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Green Mountain Coffee Helps Vermont Cut Energy Use

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is giving $30,000 to the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network (VECAN) to help residents ...

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Coffee Bean Opens LEED-Certified Facility in Portland

Coffee Bean International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Farmer Bros Co., announced its new 125,000-foot coffee roasting and office facility in ...

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Applied Materials Unveils 2 Megawatt Solar System

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently dedicated a 2 megawatt solar power system at Applied Materials' campus in Sunnyvale, ...

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Pepsi Bottling Group Cuts 16,000 Tons of Plastic in 2007

Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) recently released its first CSR report (PDF). The company reported that it saved ...

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The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

Unless you have been incommunicado for the last few years, you realize that the focus on green manufacturing has swept across Europe, ...

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Ericsson Unveils Wind-Powered Tower Tube

Ericsson unveiled its latest radio base station site concept; a wind-powered Tower Tube. The company worked with Vertical ...

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EPA Announces First WaterSense Partners of the Year

The EPA announced the first WaterSense Partners of the Year - the WaterSense program is the equivalent to ...

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Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Sun Microsystems announced it has reduced its GHG emissions from U.S. operations by 23 percent, surpassing its original ...

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World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

The World Steel Association recently released its 2008 sustainability report (PDF). The report is based on a ...

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Wal-Mart’s Packaging Scorecard Drives Sustainability, Cuts GHG Emissions

Wal-Mart Packaging Scorecard was launched eight months ago. As of August, more than 8,000 unique vendors has accessed ...

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Dairy Farmers Get Lighting Retrofit Rebate

Focus on Energy is offering a $90-per-fixture rebate to agricultural, commercial or industrial facilities that upgrade their 400-watt lighting ...

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Vodafone Powers Base Stations with Wind Turbines

Vodafone announced it has successfully begun generating electricity for its mobile communications network. The wind micro-generating system allows the ...

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Large Ships Account for 3% of Global CO2 Emissions

The Environmental Defense Fund released a report, "Floating Smokestacks: A Call for Action to Clean Up Shipping Pollution" ...

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Supermarkets Shifting to Greener Buildings

Both Shaw's Supermarkets and Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. are making their stores greener, revealing a green commercial architecture ...

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Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Google-designed data centers are the most efficient in the world, according to a post on the company's blog by Urs Hölzle, ...

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Critics Say Energy Star Standards Too Lax

Consumer and environmental groups says it is often too easy for companies to qualify for the Energy Star logo. ...

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Porsche, GM/Chevrolet Win Le Mans Series’ Green Challenge

Porsche and GM/Chevrolet won at the American Le Mans Series' Green Challenge. Porsche won for prototypes and GM/Chevrolet ...

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Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact

Goodrich Corp. announced its Tullahoma facility has made improvements to reduce the facility's environmental impact. Some of the improvements ...

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