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The new competition kicks of next year to bring collegiate engineers' creativity to the search for high-efficiency and low-emissions vehicles.
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Green collar jobs are high quality, poised for growth and have low barriers for entry, according to a report released last week.
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Working for green businesses is climbing quickly up job-seekers' list of requirements; here are the tricks you can use to make sure you hire employees with both the business skills and sustainability mentality your business needs.
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The manufacturer of consumer products made from recycled materials beat nearly 1,000 small businesses for the $100,000 grand prize.
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The U.S. Green Building Council is compiling the top green building educational programs and is looking for classroom courses to support with grants.
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The U.K.'s National Farming Union released a study detailing how the agriculture, forestry and land management sectors can adopt strategies to reduce GHG emissions, increase energy efficiency and harness renewable energy to achieve a near-carbon-neutral state.
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A partnership between Evergreen Energy and Enterprise Information Management has used IBM technology to develop the GreenCert greenhouse gas meter, which can make monitoring, reporting and trading carbon emissions an affordable, automated and efficient process.
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Green efforts by U.S. financial institutions are increasing at the same time sustainable actions are growing as a market force, according to new research.
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Chambers of Commerce may seem like unlikely partners for environmental work, but they have the potential to create perfect partnerships: they work in every community, serve as the local economic catalyst, community service group, and small business support group -- and with a little creative thinking, they can also be the local eco-champion.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and utility company NSTAR, unveiled a new competition aimed at encouraging innovative new clean energy technologies.
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Ethical investors will continue to back carbon-intensive firms, but only if they see a commitment to limit environmental impacts.
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A majority of United Kingdom businesses think it's important to be environmentally friendly and would like to see the government provide more assistance to businesses going green.
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The winners of Johnson Controls' TEAMS competition were asked to write an open letter to all the candidates in the 2008 presidential race, urging potential leaders to make the environment and energy efficiency top priorities for the election and beyond.
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A team of graduate students from Johns Hopkins beat out more than 100 other teams from around the world to win $20,000 in the Thunderbird School of Global Management's competition to solve real-life problems faced by international corporations.
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Top officials from government, business, nonprofit and academia met here on Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind event to discuss how they can work together to position the region as a national leader on environmental sustainability by developing regional, shared goals.
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In January, it will launch the Virgin Climate Change Leaders Fund, a product that will support companies that either have a light environmental footprint or work toward environmental challenges.
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These schools each earned As in the new College Sustainability Report 2008, an analysis of 200 public and private universities with endowments ranging from $230 million to almost $35 billion.
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In an effort to meet the growing demand for leaders in sustainable business, the Presidio School of Management has expanded its offerings to include an executive education certificate program targeted at senior executives.
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Germany's Technische Universität Darmstadt won the overall top score in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition on the National Mall in Washington, followed by the University of Maryland in second place and Santa Clara University in third.
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At the 2007 World Design Contest, Dell Computer issued a call to design students and others to join its International Green Computing Technology Design Competition and take a shot at the $15,000 prize.
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The state's treasurer announced the creation of a $10 million investment account to finance green building and energy-efficiency projects around the state.
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The company's Bank Asset Management division announced Wednesday it hired a new climate change czar and published a white paper focused on the investment opportunities presented by a changing climate. New investment products are expected.
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Despite the enormous energy and resource consumption in the IT sector, and the resulting greenhouse gases, technology offers myriad opportunites to ease the climate crisis, according to experts gathered at the fourth annual TechNet Innovation Summit, held at the University of California.
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The Energy Efficiency Partnership of Greater Washington will spend millions identifying and retrofitting existing to make them more energy efficient. Partners include Hannon Armstrong and Pepco Energy Services, among others.
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The EU will launch a program dedicating funds to finance support groups, simplify access to environmental management systems, and promote awareness for a sector that often has little idea of its environmental impact.