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Mariani Packing Company Taps Sun For Electricity

Mariani Packing Company Taps Sun For Electricity
The Mariani Packing Company, which produces dried fruit, recently completed a 1.1 megawatt solar power system at its Vacaville, Calif., headquarters. Located ...

Spanish City Installs Solar Panels In Cemetery

Spanish City Installs Solar Panels In Cemetery
In Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a working-class town outside Barcelona, a sea of solar panels sits atop mausoleums at ...

Harris Opens Green Branch, Installs Geothermal Technology

Harris Opens Green Branch, Installs Geothermal Technology
Harris opened its first “green” bank branch on the South Side of Chicago. The City of Chicago supported ...

North Face Installs Solar Power System

North Face Installs Solar Power System
Tomorrow, The North Face’s 800,000-square-foot Visalia Distribution Center is dedicating a ground-mounted solar energy system that will power 25-30 ...

NY Times Building Cuts Lighting Energy Needs 70%

NY Times Building Cuts Lighting Energy Needs 70%
The New York Times Building is seeing a 70 percent energy savings in lighting with the installation of a ...

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REI Completes Five Solar Arrays In California

REI Completes Five Solar Arrays In California
REI announced it has completed five solar arrays at locations in Arcadia, Santa Rosa, San Carlos and San ...

Nexamp Says Corporate Office Is ‘Beyond Zero Net-Energy’

Nexamp Says Corporate Office Is ‘Beyond Zero Net-Energy’
Nexamp Inc. recently completed green energy upgrades at its corporate office in the East Mill building, in Massachusetts. ...

Tesco Signs Lighting Retrofit Deal with Nualight

Tesco Signs Lighting Retrofit Deal with Nualight
Tesco announced that it has signed a deal with Nualight to implement energy saving LED lighting products in ...

Pineland Farms’ LED Retrofit Saves $30,000 Per Year

Pineland Farms’ LED Retrofit Saves $30,000 Per Year
Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Maine recently retrofitted over 200 street lighting fixtures with Osram Sylvania LEDs, the installation ...

Cub Foods Opens Its First ‘Green’ Store, Seeks LEED Gold Certification

Cub Foods Opens Its First ‘Green’ Store, Seeks LEED Gold Certification
Cub Foods opened its first “green” grocery store in Minnesota. The 62,900 square-foot store is currently seeking LEED ...

Bolthouse Farms Completes Solar Installation

Bolthouse Farms Completes Solar Installation
Wm. Bolthouse Farms Inc. announced the completion of a 1.9 megawatt solar power system installed at the company’s ...

Harrah’s Retrofit Cuts 2 M kWh Per Year

Harrah’s Retrofit Cuts 2 M kWh Per Year
Harrah's Rincon Resort and Casino announced that it has completed an energy efficiency retrofit project. The project, headed up ...

Starwood Says Philips EcoTVs Could Save Hotel $12 Million

Starwood Says Philips EcoTVs Could Save Hotel $12 Million
Starwood Hotels and Resorts signed an exclusive three year agreement with Philips Electronics to use Philips' SmartPower2 energy ...

Wind Industry Installs 1,400 MW In Q3

Wind Industry Installs 1,400 MW In Q3
The U.S. wind energy industry installed 1,389 megawatts in the third quarter, bringing to 4,204 MW the total of wind power projects ...

Shippers: Offshore Wind Farms May Cause Hazards, Increase Emissions

Shippers: Offshore Wind Farms May Cause Hazards, Increase Emissions
The British government has set a target of having wind generate at least one-third of all its electricity within ...

Cisco, ING, Kohl’s Among Corporate Green Power Award Winners

Cisco, ING, Kohl’s Among Corporate Green Power Award Winners
The EPA's Green Power Partnership announced the winners for its three leadership award categories: Green Power Partner of ...

Houston Cutting Energy Use in City Buildings

Houston Cutting Energy Use in City Buildings
Siemens is poised to retrofit some 5.5 million square feet of facilities in Houston as part of the ...

HP To Double Renewable Power, Dell Says ‘Good First Step’

HP To Double Renewable Power, Dell Says ‘Good First Step’
HP recently pledged to double its purchase of renewable power from under 4 percent in 2008 to 8 ...

FedEx Breaks Ground On 1.4 Megawatt Solar Facility In Germany

FedEx Breaks Ground On 1.4 Megawatt Solar Facility In Germany
FedEx Express recently broke ground on what the company is touting as its largest solar facility and its ...

Dunkin’ Donuts Opens Its First LEED Restaurant

Dunkin’ Donuts Opens Its First LEED Restaurant
Dunkin' Donuts unveiled its first LEED certified restaurant in Florida. The St. Petersburg LEED certified store broke ground ...

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Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

In a recent EL column, John Rooks, president of The Soap Group, a company that focuses on sustainability communications, wrote that ... continue »

Sustainability - An Economic Imperative in the Current Economy
12 Steps To A ‘Greener’ Supply Chain
Server MPG – It’s Time for Action
Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.
Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

Eighty percent of corporate sustainability executives surveyed from across North America plan to maintain or increase levels of sustainability-related spending in 2009, ...

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Dell, Apple, Microsoft, HP Perceived as U.S. Green Tech Leaders
Future Consumer Involvement in Environmental Protection
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable
UN Climate Change Conference Day 4 Press Briefing

UN Climate Change Conference Day 4 Press Briefing

Yvo de Boer gave an update on a number of areas under discussion, including how to increase funding for Adaptation, particularly for ...

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UN Climate Change Conference Day 3 Press Briefing
United Nations Climate Change Conference Press Briefing
BMW, Vattenfall Begin Real-World Electric Car Test Next Month

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Marketing

Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

Wal-Mart Creates Green Jobs Council

AIG Offers Green Building Coverage Against ‘Adverse Publicity’

Emissions

MBA Students Help Companies Identify Cost Savings, Cut Pollution

U.S. GHG Emissions Up 1.4% In 2007

Big Three Automakers Make Green Promises In Return For Bailout

Hi-Tech

U-M Hopes Green Computing Will Cut Costs, Emissions

Dell, Apple, Microsoft, HP Perceived as U.S. Green Tech Leaders

Tips On Dealing With IT Equipment After Layoffs

Efficiency

U.K. Introduces Legally-Binding Framework to Cut GHG Emissions

Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

GE Suspends Development Of High-Efficiency Incandescent Bulbs

Manufacturing

Ash Grove Cement Sues North Texas Cities Over ‘Green’ Resolutions

12 Steps To A ‘Greener’ Supply Chain

Plastic Waste Turned Into Armored Panels, Fleece Jackets

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Clif Family Winery Adds $0.25 Per Bottle To Offset CO2 Emissions

Farmers Against Proposed ‘Cow Tax’

Consumer Goods Industry Needs Green Sourcing To Avoid Potential 47% Earnings Hit

CSR Reports

Cisco Saves $3M By Cutting Emissions, Waste From Supply Chain

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

Major Players

Banks Launch The Climate Principles

U.N. Suspends One Of Its Largest Auditors of Clean Energy Projects

Sustainability - An Economic Imperative in the Current Economy

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