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Anheuser-Busch To Pour 5 Billion Green Beers In 2009

Anheuser-Busch To Pour 5 Billion Green Beers In 2009
Anheuser-Busch announced it will brew about one in seven beers, or over 5 billion 12.oz servings, with alternative energy ...

Data Centers and Carbon Pricing

Data Centers and Carbon Pricing
Here in the U.S. the likelihood of an official "price of carbon" continues to grow. Both Sen. McCain and Sen. ...

Coke Cuts Water Use Ratio 3% In 2007

Coke Cuts Water Use Ratio 3% In 2007
Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's largest marketer, distributor, and producer of Coca-Cola products, has published its third Corporate Responsibility and ...

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 ...

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Tesco Powers Distribution Center On Straw

Tesco Powers Distribution Center On Straw
Tesco will meet the electricity and heating needs of its Goole Distribution Center with a straw-powered Combined Heat and Power plant, which ...

Healthcare Execs Stress Energy Efficiency

Healthcare Execs Stress Energy Efficiency
The American Society for Healthcare Engineering and Johnson Controls, recently released the 2008 Healthcare Energy Efficiency Indicator study, which shows that ...

ABC Radio Buys Renewable Energy From TXU

ABC Radio Buys Renewable Energy From TXU
ABC Radio Networks will power its Dallas headquarters with 100 percent renewable energy, cutting over 5,000 metric tons ...

Facility Managers’ Guide to Energy Management

Facility Managers’ Guide to Energy Management
Energy management used to be a part-time job for many facility managers, but at a time of soaring energy ...

California Issues Tougher Green Standards for Buildings

California Issues Tougher Green Standards for Buildings
California has issued new statewide building standards, seeking to reduce energy consumption of buildings by 15 percent and reduce ...

Green GM Dealership In Detroit Cuts Energy More Than 50%

Green GM Dealership In Detroit Cuts Energy More Than 50%
General Motors unveiled a $15 million green dealership outside of Detroit today, AdAge reports. The 64,000-square-foot dealership, owned by ...

Nordstrom Doubles Square Footage, Cuts Energy Consumption

Nordstrom Doubles Square Footage, Cuts Energy Consumption
Nordstrom recently doubled the size of its Cedar Rapids fulfillment and contact center, but the retailer expects to ...

Celestial Seasonings, Others Partner With Boulder On Biomass Study

Celestial Seasonings, Others Partner With Boulder On Biomass Study
Celestial Seasonings, ConocoPhillips, Alexander Dawson School, Cal-Wood Education Center, and Saint Malo Catholic Retreat Center are teaming up with ...

Frog’s Leap Winery Embraces Green Strategies

Frog’s Leap Winery Embraces Green Strategies
Green strategies at Frog's Leap Winery include a solar installation, a LEED-certified hospitality center and geothermal technologies that power heating and cooling ...

FTC Examines Green Building, New Green Guides ‘Definitely’ In 2009

FTC Examines Green Building, New Green Guides ‘Definitely’ In 2009
The Federal Trade Commission peppered green building executives with hard questions about marketing claims at the third, and ...

Alcoa Inks Hydropower Contract

Alcoa Inks Hydropower Contract
Alcoa reached an agreement with Chelan PUD on Monday, on a new hydropower contract to supply its Wenatchee, Washington ...

Bombardier Slashes CO2 Emissions

Bombardier Slashes CO2 Emissions
Bombardier Aerospace has slashed CO2 emissions in Northern Ireland by 69 percent since 2001, the Belfast Telegraph reports. In ...

Johnson Controls Pushes Solar Kits

Johnson Controls Pushes Solar Kits
Johnson Controls is now selling solar kits designed to make it easy for customers to make their buildings more energy efficient, the ...

Leading Tech Companies Discuss Green Data Center Trends

Leading Tech Companies Discuss Green Data Center Trends
At the recent Business Goes Green conference, Elaine Lennox, IBM's vice president of marketing management; Rob Smoot, VMware's data center product marketing ...

Green Architecture’s New Goal: Affordable But Stylish Sustainability

Green Architecture’s New Goal: Affordable But Stylish Sustainability
The number of sustainable buildings has soared in the past years and along with it, the market in green-building ...

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Portugal Points The Way For Renewable Energy Adoption

Portugal Points The Way For Renewable Energy Adoption

As the world reels at the high price of fossil fuels, business and governments are increasingly casting about for renewable energy models.  ... continue »

Raw Sourcing: Glass, Plastic or Aluminum?
Environmental Supply Chain Planning – Expanding Accountability
Green Communications: 3 Strategies For Getting Past The Crunch
Beyond Tele-Conferencing: How the IT Sector Can Become a Legitimate Climate Solutions Provider
Green Govt Initiatives Grow, Implementation Lags

Green Govt Initiatives Grow, Implementation Lags

Green government is viewed as an important federal initiative by managers, ranking ahead of efforts related to performance improvement and IT security ...

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Automakers Fall Behind On EU CO2 Targets
Shippers Make Changes To Counter Higher Fuel Prices
California Businesses Campaign Against AB32
Workings Of China’s Solar Wall Discussed

Workings Of China’s Solar Wall Discussed

One of Beijing's new additions is the GreenPix Zero Energy media wall, the largest solar powered LED display in the world, ScribeMedia ...

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Organic to Go CEO Discusses Green Economy
Pitney Bowes On Design Of Eco-Friendly Products
“Virtual Water” Content Of Products Measured
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Workings Of China’s Solar Wall Discussed

Burnes’ Aims to Cut Waste 25% in 3 Years

Smart Companies Stay Ahead Of Green Trends

Emissions

Xcel to Disclose Climate Risks

World Bank: CDM Slow and Expensive

12 States Sue EPA Over Refinery Emissions

Hi-Tech

Uptime CEO: Low PUE Numbers ‘Scientifically Meaningless’

Environmental Supply Chain Planning – Expanding Accountability

Fairchild Semiconductor Expands ‘Green’ Effort with Global Team

Efficiency

USDA Awards $35M for Renewables and Energy Efficiency

Cray Unveils Energy Efficient Cooling Tech

Wal-Mart Canada Stores to Cut Energy Use 30%

Manufacturing

ExxonMobil Says New Tire Material Increases Fuel Efficiency

Borealis and Uponor Study Water Footprint Of Plastics Industry

“Virtual Water” Content Of Products Measured

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Tacoma Power Buys $15M in RECs

Constellation NewEnergy Supplies US Open With RECs

ConAgra Buys RECs, Joins Climate Leaders

CSR Reports

Coke Rolled Out ‘Green’ Coolers At Olympics

IBM Launches Eco Data Center in Second Life

Most Companies Skip Getting CSR Reports Assured

Major Players

Microsoft Recycling Program Halves Redmond HQ’s Waste

Vestas Launches $100 Million Consumer Ad Campaign

Samsung Criticized for Lack of Recycling Programs

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