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Office Depot, one of the world’s largest resellers of office products, is coloring the New Year green with the launch of The Green Book, the industry’s first catalog consisting solely of environmentally preferable products.
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With the recent delivery of a container of furniture parts to SitWell, a company that manufactures sofas for IKEA, Pueblo Nuevo of Durango became the first community in Mexico to sell its sustainably produced lumber to a major international furniture company.
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Colorado’s Aspen Skiing Company, which hosts 1.3 million skiers annually on 5,000 acres of skiable terrain, is integrating concepts of energy efficiency, feedback, life-cycle costing, nutrient cycling, renewable energy, ecosystem diversity, local sourcing, and human capital into operations at four ski areas and two hotels. ASC director of environmental affairs Auden Schendler offers an inside look.
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Japan's Toppan Printing Co. announced that it has developed a new ink for offset printing presses that uses solvents extracted from vegetable sources rather than from petroleum, the world's first ink of its kind.
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U.S. foodservice company Bon Appétit has announced a new purchasing policy designed to help protect human health by reducing the use of antibiotics in food animal production.
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A new report finds that the Metropolitan Police are the U.K. capital's greenest purchasers, with over £1 million spent on recycled-content products last year.
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Fujitsu Ltd. will set up bases in Taiwan and China to support and promote its green procurement policy, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported in its Monday morning edition.
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Boulder Community Foothills Hospital has become the first hospital in the U.S. to earn LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.
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Baxter Healthcare, Herman Miller, and Pfizer are just a few of the major manufacturers signing on to the recently launched Green Suppliers Network, a government-industry partnership that works to improve both environmental and economic performance at all levels of the manufacturing supply chain.
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The company's plant near Portland is the nation's first mixed-use industrial facility to earn gold-level certification through the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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The European paper industry has declared its intention to boost its use of biomass in heat and power production, the industry federation CEPI announced.
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The report offers tips and resources for how hospitals can manage pests while also protecting the health of people and the environment.
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In a move aimed to please employees and patients alike, Greenwich Hospital has switched to cleaning products that are supposed to be as friendly to the environment and one's sense of smell as they are effective in killing germs and cleaning.
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Tama Zoological Park in the western Tokyo suburb of Hino recently adopted a plan to recycle the dung in the form of biomass energy to cut disposal costs and save on the use of fossil fuels.
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More than a dozen manufacturers, retailers, and shipping companies have announced the Clean Cargo Environmental Performance Survey for shippers to gauge their carriers’ environmental management performance and address the environmental impacts of their ocean-going transportation.
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The climate change agreement between the government and the pulp and paper industry includes a commitment by the industry to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions intensity by an average of 15% by 2012.
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Nearly 5,000 developers, builders, contractors, urban planners, and product manufacturers from around the world gathered in Pittsburgh Nov. 12-14 for the U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild International Conference and Expo.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the winners of the Federal Energy and Water Management Awards, which honor federal employees for creating efficiency improvements and saving energy at federal facilities.
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Departmental ministers throughout the U.K. government have signed a range of measures to encourage the purchase of a wide variety of sustainable products ranging from detergents and potting compost to lighting systems and recycled paper.
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Seiyu, a major Japanese supermarket operator, has announced it will analyze the energy consumption in all of its stores and implement effective measures to curtail electricity consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.
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At what point are the benefits of recycling offset by the environmental costs of long-distance transport? By Kumar Venkat
by Kumar Venkat
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Investments in green buildings pay for themselves 10 times over, according to a new study for 40 California government agencies.
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The U.S. Green Building Council is accepting pilot applications for the newly developed LEED Core and Shell Rating System.
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The retailer has installed a solar electric system at its West Hills store in Los Angeles. It is one of the largest commercial solar rooftop electric systems in the nation and the largest at any U.S. retail store.
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The company has announced a new initiative to increase the auditing and third-party verification of the company's suppliers and their paper products.