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For a decade, EDF has worked with the retail colossus. Here's the take on the latest targets from the NGO's director of corporate partnerships.
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Amazon's sustainability group now counts more than 50 people. Is the secretive company stepping up?
by RP Siegel
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The deal is Ikea's largest renewable energy investment to date.<br />
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Who else is making progress on renewable energy? Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, the city of Houston and more.
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The gourmet grocer’s new outpost in Brooklyn is a model for how businesses can incorporate energy efficiency and lower their carbon footprint. <o p=''></o>
by Kit Kennedy
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This Austin store takes an innovative approach to selling solar power by speaking the customers' language.
by Jim Marston
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Shoppers will be able to buy solar panels at all stores in the UK by the end of next year.
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What will it take to get solar onto the rooftops of every store on the block?
by Adam Siegel
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A third of the retailer's products are now sustainable in some way, bringing the company's 2015 targets into reach.
by Will Nichols
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How does the world's biggest retailer source solar, wind and other renewables? Here are the rules of engagement.
by Rahul Raj
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A top Nike official says the signals for greater sustainability are getting "louder and louder" across the company's supply chain and the industry as a whole.
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The British retailer yesterday unveiled 20 green targets to be achieved by the end of the decade; the company has set an absolute emissions reductions goal of 30 percent by 2020, or 65 percent relative to revenues.
by Will Nichols
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The Navy, DOE and Ag department launch a three-year $510-million-plus project to boost use of advanced biofuels in ships, planes and vehicles, a top clothing retailer in Japan brings its recycling program to the U.S. and Jelly Belly Candy Company taps into high-tech water saving.
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The home-improvement retailer has become the latest company to take steps to speed adoption of renewables and grow the market for clean energy, in homes as well as businesses.
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In an effort to lighten the load on the National Grid and pare down its own environmental footprint, Sainsbury's is testing a system that will activate its biofuel generator when demand for electricity on the grid peaks.
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The furniture giant's planned development would create 70 gigawatt-hours of electricity by next year, and will power 17 IKEA stores throughout Sweden.
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A Walgreens store in this Chicago suburb has installed a geothermal energy system, becoming the first retail location in any U.S. drugstore chain to tap that source of renewable energy.
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IKEA plans to install solar power systems totaling 4.5 megawatts of generating capacity at seven stores and a distribution center in California, bringing arrays to 90 percent of the chain's portfolio in the Golden State. Clif Bar and Santa Sweets tomato growers also are taking a plunge into solar power.
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Pharmaceutical firm Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson Company, launches the largest solar energy system in New Jersey today, and the Kohl's Department Stores chain has made good on its promise to host at least 100 solar installations.
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The retailer has announced a goal of reducing energy use per square foot of real estate by 20 percent in the next five years through building controls, lighting retrofits, and efficient HVAC systems.
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Last week, we released the sustainability rankings of the world's largest oil and gas companies. Despite the skepticism of whether the industry can ever be green, there are plenty of reasons to rank their sustainability efforts.
by Todd Cort
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What concrete actions are firms taking to tackle climate change in 2009? The CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project offers the first in a series of sneak peeks at the forthcoming annual report.
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ShipGreen uses a mathematical model to calcluate the emissions of individual product shipment using the weight of each item, distance and means of travel, such as road, rail or air.
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The furnishings retailer said it will give all of its 9,600 employees in the U.K. a six-pack of compact fluorescent light bulbs as part of its goal to green its workforce.