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IBM and Schneider Electric are joining forces to provide new smarter buildings solutions that combine robust data collection and powerful analytics, enabling owners to better manage energy use at their facilities and obtain greater savings. The partnership was one several announcements about new offerings, software, services and tools from IBM in its Smarter Planet campaign.<br />
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Ernst & Yound cut its carbon footprint in North, Central and South America by 15 percent in fiscal year 2009, the result of its efforts to use less energy and make its supply chain more environmentally friendly.
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EDF's Climate Corps will send 51 fellows to 47 companies this summer to further the drive for energy efficiency in business. The fellowship program has grown more than seven-fold since its start three years ago.
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Why should companies worry about carbon management given the lack of a definitive outcome from climate talks in Copenhagen? Panelists from UPS and Motorola shared their firms’ motivations at the State of Green Business Forum in Chicago.
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By not having a national carbon cap-and-trade policy, the United States is losing out on its chance to become a green and clean technology leader, says Chicago Climate Exchange founder Richard Sandor.<br />
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While individual car buyers stayed out of showrooms with disastrous results, corporate and institutional buyers proved a bright green spot for the industry with increased purchases of hybrid-electric, diesel, biodiesel, electric and other so-called alternative-fueled vehicles.
by Joel Makower
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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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China can be a great place for international companies interested in green business. It's a matter of getting to know the right people, adapting to the culture and "getting over your fear of China," says Peggy Liu, the chair of JUCCCE.<br />
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Humans have been altering the planet for more than hundreds of years, so it's only our responsibility to actively use geoengineering to avoid catastrophe, said Jamais Cascio in his State of Green Business Forum presentation, “Hacking the Earth (Without Voiding the Warranty).”<br />
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In a lightning-paced presentation, serial innovator Saul Griffith laid out the human and global scope of the climate crisis, as well as where solutions will -- and won't -- come from.
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What happens when green business meets cleantech? When those companies are like Best Buy, Autodesk and Serious Materials, you get firms that align their products and services with efforts to foster sustainability -- and in some cases guide the marketplace toward broader and deeper adoption of environmentally responsible practices.
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The opening of the first of two day-long events digging in deep to the findings of the State of Green Business report took stock of just how far we've come in reducing corporate impacts.