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Meet the chief of staff who helped make San Francisco International Airport a leader in sustainability.
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Intel soundly beat its greenhouse-gas emissions goals, but missed several other targets: It consumes more water and creates more chemical waste than previously, instead of less. Are its new goals more realistic?
by Eric Louie
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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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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 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 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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New York City updates and expands its ambitious green agenda, PlaNYC, as the city's long-term master plan for sustainability celebrates its fourth anniversary. PlaNYC was launched on Earth Day 2007.
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<span class='mceItemHidden' spellcheck='false'>This week, I took a tour of <span class='hiddenSpellError'>Masdar City -- the audacious, carbon-neutral, zero-waste $15 to $20-billion planned development rising out of the Arabian desert. Here's the view from the ground.
by Marc Gunther
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U.K. food giant outlines plans to deliver deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, landfill waste and water use.<br />
by James Murray
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Mindful of the far-reaching security implications from a warming planet and energy dependence, the Department of Defense is leading the way in exploring green power, testing alternative fuels, and reducing its energy and water use, according to the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate.
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PepsiCo will scale back its purchases of renewable energy certificates in favor of on-site green power projects, the company announced Friday, the latest company to leave the voluntary carbon market in favor of direct action.
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The world's largest retailer has set a new goal for shrinking its environmental footprint and is turning to suppliers to help achieve a 20-million-tonne cut in greenhouse gas emissions from the lifecycle and supply chain of Walmart products by 2015.
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The city of Wilmington and Honeywell have embarked on a sweeping $14.5 million efficiency project that includes two solar arrays, increased water reservoir capacity, a traffic light retrofit and upgraded lighting and HVAC systems for 11 facilities.
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Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very much. And when they do it, they don’t do it very well. Friend and colleague Joel Makower likes to tell that joke, and it’s as good a way as any to introduce Greenbiz.com’s third annual State of Green Business report.
by Marc Gunther
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I promised a post on the State of the Union, and I’ve realized the issue to address is the degree to which the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government delay or derail real regulatory action on climate change and green building.
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Energy efficiency giant Johnson Controls has joined The Climate Group, the international nonprofit focused on finding smart policies and technologies to cut global emissions and advance development of a low-carbon economy.
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Two sets of rankings released in the last week aim to gauge the greening of the nation's colleges and universities. But it's in the gap between the rankings that the most interesting results are found.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom criticizes political rival Meg Whitman for saying in a newspaper op-ed that she'd suspend California's landmark greenhouse gas reduction legislation AB32 if elected as governor next year.
by Gavin Newsom
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Corporate America's embrace of sustainability has more than doubled in strength in the past three years with 76 percent of the largest U.S. firms reporting efforts and commitments that exceed those required by law, according to a new study.
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Houses of worship in the United States now have an array of online tools for managing energy use and reducing their carbon footprint with help from the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program.
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The U.K.'s Low Carbon Transition Plan released Wednesday secures wide-ranging praise as the government outlines how it plans to deliver deep emission cuts of 34 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
by James Murray
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A new Climate Group report predicts that scaling up energy efficiency, renewable energy and deforestation prevention can deliver 70 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions cuts needed by 2020.
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The global economy may be in the tank but that isn't stopping countries around the world from proposing billions in stimulus dollars aimed at green and climate change-related initiatives, according to Deutsche Bank.