Telluride Buys Green Tag Renewable Energy
As of January 1, 2007, 100 percent of the Telluride Mountain Village gondola and the Town of Mountain Village’s electrical usage, including not only the gondola, but the Town Hall...
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UK McDonald’s Sell Rainforest Alliance Certified Coffee
Starting Wednesday, January 10, all 1,200 McDonald’s restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland will sell exclusively Kenco coffee, a Kraft Foods high-quality Arabica coffee containing 100 percent Rainforest Alliance Certified beans...
$20 Million Straw-Bale Transit Facility Open in Santa Clarita
The new City of Santa Clarita Transit Maintenance Facility, designed by HOK, is one of the first LEED-certified straw-bale buildings in the world...
World’s Largest Green Building Releases Green Practices Report
Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the world's largest certified green building, has released highlights of the facility's 2006 measurable green practices...
‘Very Few’ Building Service Contractors Asked to Clean Green
As green cleaning's popularity continues to grow, a new poll questions if using environmentally preferable cleaning products is of greater interest to manufacturers and distributors than to the customers of building service contractors.
Wyoming School Meets LEED Standards
A new elementary school in Greybull, Wyoming, will be the only one in the state built according to LEED standards, the Casper Star Tribune reports.
Boston to Require LEED Standards
Boston plans to amend its building code to require that all new private construction of at least 50,000 square feet must meet the minimum criteria of the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards, The New York Times reports. Other cities and states have taken ... Read more »
GHG Certification Standard Out for Stakeholder Comment
The new Green-e Greenhouse Gas Product Certification Standard is now out for stakeholder comment. The Center for Resource Solutions is developing the new standard with the Green-e GHG Advisory Group, composed of environmental organizations, government agencies, businesses, and advocacy organizations. CRS believes the creation of this draft standard is the ... Read more »
300 Computer Products Meet EPEAT Standard
Nine manufacturers are participating in EPEAT, the EPA-funded green computer standard released in July. More than 300 computers are now registered. The manufacturers are (links lead to EPEAT profiles): Apple, CTL, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, NEC Display Solutions, Northern Micro, Panasonic, and Sony. Many of these manufacturers also made Greenpeace’s report ... Read more »
Aspen Sells Tags to Offset Guests’ Travel Emissions
Aspen Skiing Company is partnering with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to sell Green-e certified SkiGreen Tags to resort guests who wish to offset their travel-related emissions to and from the resort with wind energy. SkiGreen Tags can be added to a season pass for $20, or guests can purchase a ... Read more »
Boeing Facility Receives ISO 14001 Certification
Boeing’s airplane manufacturing facility in Everett, Washington has received ISO 14001 certification, confirming that the facility has a certified system in place to monitor, manage, and improve its environmental management system. Boeing’s Everett facility sits on more than 1,000 acres and is surrounded by 16 wetlands that drain to fish-bearing streams. According to ... Read more »
TerraPass VP of Marketing: Link Offset Program to Customer Behavior
Although it hasn’t been measured directly yet, Adam Stein, VP of Marketing for TerraPass, says that based on focus groups that TerraPass has done and emails he has received, he believes that Expedia has increased customer loyalty by offering flight terrapasses to its customers. As Stein points out in the interview with Marketing Green’s David Wigder, carbon ... Read more »