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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013

Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
The value of green building construction starts was up from $10 billion in 2005 to $36-$49 billion in 2008, and could triple ...
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Green Grid Supports EU’s Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency

Green Grid Supports EU’s Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency
The Green Grid announced support for the recently-released European Commission's Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency. The ...
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Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports
Spada released its Environmental Reporting: Trends in FTSE 100 Sustainability Reports (PDF) and said longer corporate responsibility reports ...
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Anheuser-Busch Cuts Landfill-bound Materials By 2,400 Tons

Anheuser-Busch Cuts Landfill-bound Materials By 2,400 Tons
Anheuser-Busch has reduced the weight of material it contributes to landfills from its  U.S. breweries by nearly 22 percent, ...
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U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards
The U.S. Army released a 2007 Sustainability Report (PDF) and reported that in FY 2007, 301 of new ...
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OpenEco.org 2.0 Launched By Sun

OpenEco.org 2.0 Launched By Sun
Sun Microsystems has updated OpenEco.org, an online community that provides tools to help companies calculate, compare and reduce their greenhouse gas ...
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Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession

Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
In these uncertain economic times, companies often gravitate towards budget cuts and to scale back sustainability or “green” programs because of the ...
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HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
The CSR Asia Business Barometer 2008 (PDF) - which compares the corporate social responsibility  disclosure of the 20 ...
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Alternative Energy Use For Manufacturers Promising, Cost Still A Hurdle

Alternative Energy Use For Manufacturers Promising, Cost Still A Hurdle
James Lee, an associate professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, recently spoke with IndustryWeek about the pros ...
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Downturn In Market Equals Downturn In Recyclables

Downturn In Market Equals Downturn In Recyclables
As the global economy slows down, demand for recyclables is also dragging. This has caused scrap dealers from Sacramento ...
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FedEx Cuts Aircraft Emissions, Increases Vehicle Fuel Efficiency

FedEx Cuts Aircraft Emissions, Increases Vehicle Fuel Efficiency
FedEx released its 2008 Global Citizenship Report (PDF) and announced that it plans to reduce aircraft emissions and ...
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Environmentalists Say IUCN Risking Reputation For Corporate Donations

Environmentalists Say IUCN Risking Reputation For Corporate Donations
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature is increasingly turning to corporate donors for more of their funding. ...
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IBM Reports 4% Energy Savings, Net CO2 Emissions Up 5%

IBM Reports 4% Energy Savings, Net CO2 Emissions Up 5%
IBM released its 2007-2008 Corporate Responsibility Report (PDF) and reported that it exceeded its corporate goal of ...
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Wells Fargo Surpasses $2 Billion In LEED Building Financing

Wells Fargo Surpasses $2 Billion In LEED Building Financing
Wells Fargo has surpassed $2 billion in lending for LEED-certified buildings. Of the buildings the company finances, 28 ...
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Xerox Cut GHG Emissions 21% Since 2002

Xerox Cut GHG Emissions 21% Since 2002
Xerox Corp. released its 2008 Report on Global Citizenship, and announced that it has achieved a 21 percent ...
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Corporate Responsibility Budgets Decreasing

Corporate Responsibility Budgets Decreasing
While 43 percent of respondents to the BSR/Cone 2008 Corporate Responsibility survey say their corporate responsibility budget will stay the same ...
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BP Drops Out Of UK Renewables Plan, Focuses On U.S.

BP Drops Out Of UK Renewables Plan, Focuses On U.S.
BP announced it will drop out of the UK government's competition to build a prototype power station that will ...
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RBC Forges Ahead in Canada’s Fledgling Carbon Market

RBC Forges Ahead in Canada’s Fledgling Carbon Market
RBC Capital Markets is moving ahead into Canada's fledgling carbon market despite the absence of formal government legislation, Reuters ...
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Will Organic Products Take A Dive Along With Economy?

Will Organic Products Take A Dive Along With Economy?
According to Nielsen, sales volume of organic and natural products were recently growing at 20 percent a year. But ...
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MillerCoors Receives Energy Saver Awards

MillerCoors Receives Energy Saver Awards
MillerCoors' breweries in Golden, Colorado and Shenandoah, Virginia, received Energy Saver Awards from the Department of Energy for ...
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Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans
Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013

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Green Grid Supports EU’s Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013

Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013

The value of green building construction starts was up from $10 billion in 2005 to $36-$49 billion in 2008, and could triple ...

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ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

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Emissions

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

Hi-Tech

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

Efficiency

Green Grid Supports EU’s Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency

‘Heat Wheel’ Cools Data Centers, Cuts Energy Bills

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Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits With Phone Purchases

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

Atlanta Establishes First ‘Carbon Neutral Zone’ in the U.S.

CSR Reports

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

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

FedEx Cuts Aircraft Emissions, Increases Vehicle Fuel Efficiency

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

Dell Partners With Staples On In-Store Recycling Program

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