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Peter Williams, the Chief Technology Officer for IBM's Big Green Innovations project, explains how the company's idea for a new, nonprofit water organization can make managing our most precious resource even more efficient.
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In this landmark report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com answer the question: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be more environmentally responsible? It introduces the GreenBiz Index, 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Cleantech stands to make the Pacific Northwest a leader in a low-carbon economy and deliver thousands of local green collar jobs by 2025, according to a new study. -
DENVER, Colo. -- Chipotle Mexican Grill is adding two restaurants created according to green designs to its chain of 775 outlets. -
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Event management and consulting firm Meeting Strategies Worldwide has launched two online tools to help planners select meeting sites based on the eco-friendliness of prospective locations and the estimated carbon emissions resulting from air travel. -
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Google unveiled an aggressive $4 trillion energy plan to significantly wean the U.S. off fossil fuel use by 2030. Meanwhile, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce affiliate released its own plan that take an all-of-the-above strategy. -
MIAMI, Fla. -- A study prepared for the U.S. Conference of Mayors says the number of green jobs in the country could grow fivefold to 4.2 million by 2038 if aggressive steps are taken to rely more on renewable energy resources, use alternative fuels and conserve energy. -
OAKLAND, Calif. -- In the first of our new series of reports, Peter Williams of IBM's Big Green Innovations explains the potential for high-tech water management strategies, and offers a call for a new public-private organization to manage U.S. water use efficiently. -
PURCHASE, N.Y. -- PepsiCo, the corporate parent of Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Quaker foods, Tropicana and the soda that is its namesake, said it's making strong progress toward its environmental goals. In September, PepsiCo was named anew to the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North American indexes. -
MADISON, Wis. -- More than 50 companies and interested parties are represented on the panel working to set a nationwide standard of sustainable agriculture. -
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- USPS is applying a variety of strategies, such as energy efficiency requirements for equipment, green building practices, lighting retrofits in processing plants, renewable energy systems and alternative fuel vehicles. -
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- The ice cream company has received EPA permission to install freezers cooled with propane, technology used widely in Europe but banned in the U.S. -
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- A new book available only in digital form from Vault.com Inc. profiles the eco-friendly practices and programs of nearly 70 North American companies. -
ASHLAND, Wis. -- Xcel Energy will invest as much as $70 million on a biomass power plant project in Wisconsin that will be the Midwest's largest. -
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- Coca-Cola trimmed the weight of its drink cans 5 percent, saving mountains of aluminum waste in the European Union. -
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Enterprise expanded its business-to-business car sharing service nationwide in a move it says will accommodate the recent surge in public transportation ridership, the company said Tuesday. -
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The 1,500 largest firms in San Francisco can each get a free solar assessment and an energy audit, if they enlist in Mayor Gavin Newsom's drive to install enough solar power arrays to generate 5 megawatts of electricity — double the city's current capacity for sun power.
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