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New this week: clean energy trends, the next "greenest Olympics," and a military contractor's sustainability project.
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The Princeton Review, Sierra Magazine, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education have teamed up to promote a new tool that makes it free and relatively easy for any education institution to report its environmental impacts.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the newest campaign against the social network's new data center in Oregon, Greenpeace has created a short animation mocking the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
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A study from the U.S. Commerce Department lays the foundation for measuring the growth of the green economy, with green jobs representing 2 percent or less of the private sector in 2007.
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The new Bloom Energy Server was touted far and wide last week as a game-changing fuel-cell device. We talked to some of the first owners of 'Bloom Boxes' to find out why they made the $700,000 purchase -- and whether it's right for your firm.
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One year ago today, Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Investment Act. Today, he and top administration officials are making the rounds to highlight the plan's success in recasting the economy in a greener light.
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At the National Automobile Dealers Association convention this weekend, Ford unveiled a pilot project aimed at helping its 3,500 dealers nationwide save energy and reduce emissions and other environmental impacts.
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A management consulting firm released a new report outlining the steps any company can take to get on the path toward environmental sustainability. How many of these has your firm already accomplished?
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Gills Onions, a large-scale onion processor in Oxnard, Calif., is unveiling a first-of-its-kind method of turning waste from business operations into electricity and major cost savings.
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As both a response to and a driver for the greening of the hospitality industry, the travel group's 2010 TourBooks will point out which lodging options for its 51 million members are certified green.
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Two new reports on the impacts of moving to a low-carbon economy show putting money toward energy efficiency, building retrofits and renewable energy projects can create 1.7 million new jobs, significantly more than the same investment in fossil fuel industries.
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From a host of innovative food companies, farmers and thought leaders, the Natural Resources Defense Council chose three winners last night for its first-annual 'Growing Green Awards.'
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Companies large and small are taking Earth Day to heart, organizing events, outreach and education session for employees. We talked to more than a dozen companies across industries to find out what internal Earth Day activities they had lined up.
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After days of online speculation, Van Jones has officially become the special adviser for 'green jobs, enterprise and innovation' at the White House.