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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. Here's what firms can do to prepare.
by Lena Hansen
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The health care giant that's pledged to green its facilities, energy and supply chain now sets a goal to reduce its carbon footprint.
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But BP warns world is still on track to see carbon emissions rise by about 28 percent by 2030.
by James Murray
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The Swedish furniture retailer now plans to bring solar power to 33 of its 44 stores, distribution centers and office buildings in the U.S.
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A new report released at COP17 finds that four US Banks -- JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley -- are the top funders of coal-fired power plant projects around the globe.
by Robert Kropp
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The still-unproven carbon capture and storage technology is one of the most controversial topics among the business community at COP17. Will the ability to sequester emissions from fossil fuels save us, or doom us to rapid climate change?
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The first class of 14 companies have signed up for the new WindMade label, making a big bet that shoppers will seek out products made in factories powered by wind energy.
by Adam Aston
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A new organization formed out of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change aims to address climate change -- like so many others before them, with so little success. But their launch event raised one solid idea: It's time to tax carbon.
by Marc Gunther
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The new report brings a new methodology and different contenders for the world's greenest tech firm.
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Former director of global strategic planning at Ford, Richard Canny, joins Boston-based XL Hybrids, makers of electric conversion technology for fleets.
by Derek Top
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Has the social network caved in to Greenpeace's demands in announcing its plans to build a massive, renewably powered data center near the Arctic Circle?
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The group's executive director, Mike Brune, explains how the nonprofit is putting Michael Bloomberg's $50 million gift to work, and how Occupy Wall Street and the Keystone XL protests tie in to the shift to clean energy.
by Marc Gunther
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The first prize from a challenged issued by the Environmental Defense Fund and InnoCentive proposes a simple solution to the problem of pollution from nitrogen-rich farm runoff. It's just one of many little challenges that could add up to big solutions.
by Marc Gunther
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The success of the Green-e renewable energy certification points the path to a solution that can bring the country's relatively cleaner natural gas supplies to market without polluting the environment around fracking operations.
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A system put in place in 2007 at Alcoa's Jamaican mining operations has saved the company more than $1.5 million in energy costs and cutting fuel use -- reducing emissions and saving energy at the same time.
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The company's latest CSR report downplays its green power purchases and highlights Dell's growing e-waste hauls and improved energy efficiency and performance-per-watt metrics.
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Solyndra's collapse, the London Olympics' pull-back on a broad carbon offset plan, an IBM shopping spree, and more are in the headlines today.
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NASCAR is a 63-year-old, family-run, privately held company that governs America's No.1 spectator sport -- a showcase for fast cars zooming around racetracks. How is it making green work?
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Singapore teams with Panasonic to create Asia's first test bed in public housing for technology that's designed to provide total energy solutions.
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Sony's progress toward environmental goals, the struggle to reduce use of plastic shopping bags, the Army's work to recycle more than 3,000 tons of contaminated steel made green headlines today.
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In a bold and potentially politically risky move, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy organization has pledged $50 million to the Sierra Club to fight coal-fired power plants.
by Marc Gunther
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Although electric vehicles are flooding the marketing -- and shoppers are finally climbing on board -- but new research suggests that deploying Leafs in large numbers may swell your fleet's carbon footprint.
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The prototype plane Solar Impulse HB-SIA has completed its maiden international flight by traveling from Switzerland to Belgium powered only by solar energy.
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Air emissions have been on the decline for the electric power company since 1990, a time period during which its generation fleet has grown 249 percent.
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The environmental group has released its latest video in a campaign to get Facebook to embrace clean energy, targeting the company's data centers in Oregon and North Carolina as pollution sources while suggesting how the social network can change course.