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The use of renewable energy, also called green energy or green power, can be a key strategy for businesses looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While fossil fuels, which come from coal, oil, and natural gases, contribute to global warming and cause significant damage to our air, soil, and water, green energy provides clean alternatives that cause little or no pollution at all.
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- An MIT survey of corporate executives suggests that sustainability is increasingly part of the management agenda, while WWF finds that global consumption patterns are still unsustainable.
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GRID Alternatives has found a way to bring solar roofs to low-income people using subsidies, donations and volunteers. It plans to install 1,000 solar roofs in California this year and has signed...
ACORE president Dennis McGinn talks about how green energy and rechargeable batteries have saved lives, why we're unlikely to see better federal renewable energy policies in the near future,...
The U.S. solar industry saw record installations in 2011, more than doubling the newly installed capacity from the previous year, according to a new report. Who's buying? U.S. businesses and......
Despite plenty of struggles in 2011, clean energy markets jumped 31 percent last year, according to research group Clean Edge. It expects those markets will keep growing -- albeit more slowly --...
With cows emitting all that methane, the milk-production industry contends with a carbon footprint as large as the airline industry's. But many dairies are doing something about it --...
A new report finds that Walmart is falling woefully short of its sustainability goals. But a Walmart spokeswoman the retail giant has projects in the works to eliminate 16 million metric tons of...
The authors of a new study find that even a rapid transition to clean energy will not produce climate benefits until the second half of this century, while converting coal to natural gas will have......
The rise of zero energy buildings in the United States, and why they can exist in any climate....
Two big trends in energy generation -- shifting to renewables, and evolving to smaller, decentralized systems -- will have a profound impact on utilities and almost every energy-using company....
Ian Bowles, who's been working on renewables policy at the state and federal level since the 1990s, talks about the state of play for green power, life at his new clean energy startup and the...
The health care giant that's pledged to green its facilities, energy and supply chain now sets a goal to reduce its carbon footprint.
Lego's parent company joins a growing group of corporations -- including Google, BT and Ikea -- to invest directly in large renewable-energy projects.
While American consumers continue to view solar power, wind energy and greener cars favorably, overall support for clean energy concepts is slipping, Pike Research finds....
John Hellweg, recently retired from General Mills, shares the effort it took to complete a nearly 25-year-long process to turn a waste stream into a fuel source.
Rooftop solar power will supply about 85 percent of the energy used by a distribution facility in New Jersey that serves metro New York....
Nike, Starbucks and Campbell Soup are among the consumer brands that are urging representatives to continue to support a tax credit for wind power production, currently in the final hours of...
The furniture retailer expands its solar agenda in the U.S. yet again and adds more EV charging stations to its stores, while Hertz test drives wireless charging for electric cars....
The consultancy has announced it will not publish the full findings of a report that suggested big financial savings if the UK focused on nuclear and gas instead of renewable energy, after a...
The co-op that brought sustainable farming to the dairy industry has adopted the latest twist in solar technology: windows embedded with solar cells that generate electricity and save energy by......
A relatlively large number of business leaders are shifting their firms to be ready for the new energy economy, but important questions remain, including how to measure success and how to convince...
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