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Cement Industry In Demand V. Emissions Battle

Cement plants have become more automated, integrated and efficient since Henry Kaiser founded the Kaiser Cement Corporation -- now ...

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Citi Takes LEED Pre-Certification To The Bank

Citi has announced that it is the first company to achieve LEED pre-certification for a retail commercial interior ...

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Pike Place Market Serves Up Environmental Initiatives

AccuWeather takes a look at the green initiatives at Seattle's Pike Place Market....

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Yahoo Wants First LEED-Gold Data Center In California

Yahoo is leasing a corporate data center in a Digital Realty Trust data center which the companies hope will ...

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Kraft Distribution Center Tagged As LEED-CI Gold Facility

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has recognized an 800,000-square-foot Kraft Foods distribution center near Chicago for its ...

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Pittsburgh Convention Center Helps Green Up City’s Image

Pittsburgh is trying to shed its image of a gritty, grimy steel town one building at a time. Its convention center is ...

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Long-Term Sustainability Depends On The Green

Companies realize that environmental initiatives can create great PR, but they're also realizing that those initiatives must be profitable ...

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Fort Knox Gets Energy Efficiency Overhaul

Here's a short video highlighting the energy improvement initiatives at Fort Knox Military Reservation. Installations were done by Nolin Electric Cooperative....

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Burt’s Bees Aims For Efficiency At New Distribution Center

Burt's Bees' has installed a sensor-activated motorized drive roller conveyor at its distribution center in North Carolina which has ...

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Rackspace Uses Biomass To Run Data Center

IT hosting company Rackspace has announced it has completed the conversion of a former warehouse into its new ...

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Office Depot First Retailer To Pre-Certify Store Prototypes With USGBC

Office Depot is the first company to achieve volume pre-certification under the pilot LEED Portfolio Program for its store ...

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AIA Evaluates Green Building Rating Systems

The American Institute of Architects has released a study of three of the most widely used green building ...

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Point Carbon Launches Database Of North American Carbon Projects

Point Carbon introduced Carbon Project Manager North America (CPMNA) -- which it describes as the first web-based, analytical ...

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Toyota Prototype Maps The Way For Green Dealerships

By 2011, Toyota Motor Corp. expects to have 100 environmentally friendly dealerships -- or just under 10 percent of ...

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Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Members of Waco-based Mars Snackfood and representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unwrapped the candy company's first ...

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REI Tries Solar Power On For Size

Retailer REI plans to retrofit more than 10 percent of its stores with solar power in 2008. The installations ...

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Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

When the construction of Hamilton, Ohio-based SMART Papers' $30 million high-efficiency co-generation power plant is complete in the spring ...

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Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Performance Track Members Reduce GHG Emissions Nearly 310,000 Tons

EPA released its Sixth Annual Progress Report for the National Environmental Performance Track program, which encourages facilities ...

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

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

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