- Cheryl Martin, deputy director of the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy talks energy innovation at the 2013 VERGE conference in Boston.
- The CEO of The Nature Consevancy talks about his new book and the future of business and natural capital.
- An excerpt from "Nature's Fortune," a new book by Mark Tercek and Jonathan Adams.
- Technology and proposals developed by GreenTouch consortium members promise to cut energy use in communication networks by 90 percent.
- Large commercial and residential buildings must report annual energy and water use, but aren't required to act on the results.
- Top brands showcase the five ways to effectively craft branding messages about transparency.
- In this week's sustainability news roundup, we find big progress on climate policy, big commitments from a UK retailer and competition in the big home-energy market.
- New guidance from the GHG Protocol on value chain emissions marks an important milestone for companies looking to track the business benefits of emissions reductions.
- Sustainability is steadily becoming strategically integrated into all departments at hospitals and health care systems.
- Just about every corporate sustainability pro is tweeting these days. We've done some analysis of who's actually getting their message across.
- The $20 million dollar fund will focus on companies that share its environmental values with a focus on clothing, food, water, energy, and waste.
- Gamification can turn mundane tasks into adventures, give people motivation to get involved and show the possibility for success, all key elements for putting sustainability into action.
- Implementing a measurement and verification plan is essential to meet facility sustainability goals.
- Want proof that the smart-grid ecosystem is alive and well? Nest Labs' news that it has signed partnerships with some of the US's biggest utilities should suffice. But more innovation is...
- The company worked with Florida Power and Light to complete a groundbreaking smart grid project sparked, in part, by an Obama stimulus grant.
- Can Greenpeace activists make it in the private sector? Two of the group's leaders are trying.
- What the software giant learned about building efficiency at its headquarters is the basis for a new business opportunity.
- Smart, connected buildings currently promise more than they can deliver, at least if we don't pass the baton properly from design teams to operations teams.
- Chinese cities are experimenting with ways to maximize EV development and deployment, green building and a locally tailored carbon market.
- The federal government estimates we can save $40 billion annually by reducing energy use in commercial buildings 20 percent by 2020.
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