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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ...

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012
The rapidly increasing demand for digital processing for everything from online banking to e-Bay auctions, Amazon orders, Google searches, and iTunes and ...

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

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas
Exxon Mobil Corp. said it is building a commercial demonstration plant near LaBarge, Wyo., to test an improved ...

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste
In its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report Motorola, Inc. highlights actions the company has taken on social, accountability and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LA Passes Green Building Rules

LA Passes Green Building Rules
On Earth Day, the City Council of Los Angeles passed an ordinance requiring builders of large commercial and residential ...

First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design

First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design
Interesting tour of the green features of First Federal Savings Bank in Mishawaka, Ind....

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 ...

Architect Norman Foster On Green Design

Architect Norman Foster On Green Design
Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically ...

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 ...

JPMorgan Targets 20% Emissions Cut

JPMorgan Targets 20% Emissions Cut
JPMorgan Chase says that by increasing energy efficiencies in its facilities worldwide, purchasing energy from renewable sources, and educating ...

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls
Fifty-one percent of companies have a green data center strategy, according to a Digital Realty Trust survey of ...

Vestar Launches LEED Retail Development Program

Vestar Launches LEED Retail Development Program
Retail developer Vestar Development has launched GreenStar, a commitment to sustainable shopping center building techniques with the goal ...

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint
The entire lifecycle of every copy of Discover Magazine produced costs 2.1 pounds in Co2 emissions, the magazine ...

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Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis

Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis

Consumers are calling on brands to take responsibility for reducing the impact of climate change as governments fail to make progress, according ...

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Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
HP Exec On Product Takeback

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Renee St. Denis discusses how Hewlett-Packard's corporate processes and design strategies have evolved in dealing with e-waste, or outdated and discarded PCs, ...

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Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

EU Says ICT Will Lead The Way To Carbon Neutrality

Nissan Electric Car Headed To U.S. By 2010

Alcoa, Ford, Arcelor Mittal, Wal-Mart Among Brazil GHG Protocol Members

Hi-Tech

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Efficiency

DOE: Wind Could Supply 20 Percent of U.S. Electricity By 2030

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

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

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

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

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

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