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Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings

Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings
Taco Bell plans to install new "Grill-To-Order" cooking machines in all of their locations to reduce water and energy use and improve ...

E-Waste Piles Up At Goodwill

E-Waste Piles Up At Goodwill
Because Goodwill Industries is increasingly becoming a place to "donate" old computers and other used electronics, the organization is ...

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas
As part of a joint venture, The Linde Group and Houston-based Waste Management have announced they will build the ...

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 ...

Lighting Top Purchase For Increasing Energy Efficiency

Lighting Top Purchase For Increasing Energy Efficiency
Twenty-two percent of respondents to a ChangeWave survey say their company is very concerned about reducing its corporate energy usage and ...

MTA Sustainability Initiatives Include Solar, Green Roofs

MTA Sustainability Initiatives Include Solar, Green Roofs
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning a series of sustainability initiatives. The initiatives are part of the ...

MMA Inks Deal For Macy’s Solar Power

MMA Inks Deal For Macy’s Solar Power
MMA Renewable Ventures has signed Power Purchase Agreements for 14 new solar electric systems at Macy's stores in ...

JPMorgan Greens HQ

JPMorgan Greens HQ
JPMorgan Chase is making its 50-story headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Manhattan more environmentally-friendly, Reuters reports, ...

Honeywell Expands Energy-Efficiency Program for Motels

Honeywell Expands Energy-Efficiency Program for Motels
Honeywell has been awarded a $4.5 million contract extension for its energy-efficiency program Cool Control Plus, currently ...

Austin Joins LED Cities and Saves Money With Green Lighting

Austin Joins LED Cities and Saves Money With Green Lighting
Cree Inc. announced that the City of Austin joined the LED City program to deploy and promote ...

Adobe, CB Richard Ellis and Others Retrofitting Major Office Space

Adobe, CB Richard Ellis and Others Retrofitting Major Office Space
According to government estimates, commercial buildings account for more than 60 percent of the country's electricity consumption and generate ...

Marriott, Hilton,Other Hotels Going Green

Marriott, Hilton,Other Hotels Going Green
A 2007 survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives and KDS revealed that only one-third of corporate ...

OVG CEO Says Green Pays Off

OVG CEO Says Green Pays Off
Conrad van Oostrom is the Dutch CEO and founder of OVG, a 10-year old real estate development company ...

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has released a short-term action plan (PDF) to begin reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas ...

Hobie Cat Cuts Energy Costs 20% With Lighting Retrofit

Hobie Cat Cuts Energy Costs 20% With Lighting Retrofit
Hobie Cat has completed a lighting retrofit that will save about $24,000 in annual energy costs. The Oceanside, Calif. company ...

U.S. Steel Proposes $1 Billion Environmental Upgrade

U.S. Steel Proposes $1 Billion Environmental Upgrade
United States Steel Corporation is considering a $1 billion capital investment program at its Clairton plant coke making operation near ...

Rockefeller Center Launches Major Green Initiatives

Rockefeller Center Launches Major Green Initiatives
Rockefeller Center is getting a green makeover this holiday season that includes solar panels, LED Christmas tree lights, a green roof, ...

Frito-Lay Plans Net-Zero Plant

Frito-Lay Plans Net-Zero Plant
Frito-Lay wants its Casa Grande plant to become a net zero facility, The New York Times reports. The plan has the ...

AAMCO Launches Program To Green Its Service Centers

AAMCO Launches Program To Green Its Service Centers
AAMCO Transmissions, which runs the world's largest chain of transmission service centers, has introduced Eco-Green Auto Service Certification. U.S. AAMCO centers ...

Digital Reality Trust Datacenter First To Earn LEED Gold Certification

Digital Reality Trust Datacenter First To Earn LEED Gold Certification
Digital Realty Trust has received the datacenter industry's first LEED Gold Certification for a Build-to-Suit datacenter for a Fortune Global 500 ...

Today's News

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
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

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

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

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

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

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

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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