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A handful of companies are collaborating to figure out how to make climate change a driving force in all business decisions and operations.
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High upfront costs, long payback periods, lack of capital and a perceived risk and uneasiness over measuring energy savings are some of the major barriers to major investments in energy efficiency projects.
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Japan's industrial firms offer cleantech solutions to step up recovery efforts from the earthquake and tsunami last spring, environmental groups slap the EPA with lawsuits over pollution standards, and more make green headlines today.
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If the carbon bubble is allowed to keep growing -- and threatens to burst -- investors and the planet will both lose.
by James Leaton
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Where are all the green jobs? A new new report from the Brookings Institution and Battelle finds that there are 2.7 million in the U.S., and they're all around you.
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The VP of sustainability at the consumer-goods giant talks about the power of collaboration, the difficulty of changing individuals' behavior, and why Americans in the shower is one of the biggest environmental hurdles Unilever faces.
by Adele Peters
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A study recently finished by enterprising Googlers found that investing in clean energy could offer big benefits to GDP, jobs, energy security, reducing carbon emissions and personal savings. But will it be enough to avert global warming?
by Marc Gunther
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Google's multimillion bid to help fund residential solar projects, Proterra's $30 million boost for electric bus development and a nextgen fuel cell that looks like a refrigerator are among the stories in the news that caught our eye today.
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Kicking off the week with news about the BPA debate, IBM's first 100 years, the complexities of bioplastics, and more...
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In the environment, as in business, timing is critical. This is perhaps no more true than in the issue of anthropogenic climate change, and GreenBiz articles this week discuss the alarming news on carbon emissions and their impacts on cities.
by Rob Watson
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Many major cities' climate change initiatives can help businesses' sustainability efforts.
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Global sustainability spending will soar 50 percent to 100 percent between 2011 and 2013, predicted research firm Verdantix.
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The cosmetics company has pledged to buy enough GreenPalm certificates to cover all of its global palm oil use.
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Climate-friendly policies in places like China and Germany helped to push clean energy investment to record levels in 2010, according to Deutsche Bank, whose recent white paper offers a framework to help asset managers understand and manage climate change risks.
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Two different groups have recently developed new ways to make fuels -- biodiesel and natural gas -- from waste materials in the beer-brewing process and from water-treatment algaes.
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The number of resolutions filed for oil, coal and electric power companies soared 50 percent as shareholders focused on an energy sector faced with growing regulatory action.
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The Asset Owners Disclosure Project develops a methodology for the incorporation of climate change risks and opportunities in investment decision-making by asset owners. <br />
by Robert Kropp
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Following various stages of pilot testing, JouleX Energy Manager version 2.5 includes features such as opt-in capability, a smart mobile application that allows workers to turn their electronic devices on or off, and the ability to save energy in the data center with load-adaptive computing, a phrase coined by the company to describe the rerouting of resources to specific functions or processes as needed.
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While green has become the new black and cleantech is now viewed as sexy, affordable housing -- as fundamental to societal well-being as energy security -- maintains a reputation as a dowdy old aunt. But that can change as new views emerge of the social return on investment provided by green, affordable housing.
by Sara Olsen
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New research from the Center for Public Integrity finds that nearly 200,000 stimulus projects were granted complete or conditional waivers from environmental regulations, in the name of funding "shovel-ready" projects.
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Research contracts between universities and the oil sector often fail to provide sufficient academic control and independence, a new report suggests.
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The Network for Business Sustainability, based at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, has as its mission bringing the most pressing questions on sustainability to the research agenda -- and feeding the results back into practice.
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The EPA announced it will redesign its label for new cars to make it easier for consumers to buy the cleanest, most fuel efficient models. But in a recent poll, the two label designs proposed by the EPA confused consumers, who cared more about gas mileage and fuel costs than the new environmental information the EPA now wants to include.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond believes investors should view a dozen dire challenges facing humanity -- including climate change, low-cost energy and soil depletion -- as money-making opportunities they need not apologize for.
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The finance sector appears ready to invest in the global deployment of carbon capture and storage subject to three prerequisites, according to a new report released today by The Climate Group and Ecofin Research Foundation in New York as part of Climate Week.