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Fireman's Fund, the first company to write insurance policies for horseless carriages and planes, led the industry in widely providing green insurance in the U.S. commercial market. CEO Mike LaRocco talks about the firm's sustainability commitment at the State of Green Business Forum in San Francisco.
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California now leads the nation in clean energy with the approval of the first economywide carbon market of its kind. But questions are surfacing about how exactly the program will work and with them come a raft of misconceptions.
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There’s a lot to be said for viewing the year just passed through the rear-view window, from runaway oil wells to crashing hybrids to political stalemate over climate change. Still, there’s much to be hopeful about. Here are 10 stories we published that represent significant, promising developments.<o p=''></o>
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by Joel Makower
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The Volvo Group, whose brands include Mack Trucks, Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks and UD Trucks, has become the world's first vehicle manufacturer to join the WWF Climate Leaders program. Volvo truck companies have vowed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions produced over the lifetime of the trucks they manufacture through 2014 by 13 million tons.
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Investors and U.S. policymakers face a historic choice: Invest in energy infrastructure now or wait for economic recovery. Certainly, the world faces serious challenges to both capital markets and the global economy as the effects of the financial crisis unfold, but this is not an “either/or” issue. Investing in clean energy infrastructure is a business and environmental necessity that we cannot afford to postpone.
by Jigar Shah
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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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Office Depot has opened its first store registered as a green building project under LEED standards for commercial interiors -- the latest move in the company's program to make its sites more environmentally friendly.
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As the healthcare industry strives to reduce its environmental footprint, the makers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices are working to curb their use of energy and water and run their facilities more responsibly. Thera Kalmijn examines their efforts in Part 2 of her series on green initiatives in the healthcare industry.
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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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Office Depot's LEED-Gold certified store yielded a 16 percent savings in annual electricity costs and a carbon footprint that's 23 percent smaller per square foot.
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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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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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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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As businesses become increasingly strategic about sustainability, using metrics to measure and manage social, environmental and economic impacts has become standard practice. But how companies use that data to guide their activities varies significantly.
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Companies that rescue and restore forests to earn money by capturing carbon in trees likely expanded their operations in 2009, despite the global recession and regulatory uncertainty, capping three years of accelerating growth, according to the first-ever global survey of emerging markets in forest carbon.
by Steve Zwick
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We have upon us the next Industrial Revolution, where companies who make products that embody energy efficiency now have a worldwide advantage. We can’t let other countries lead the world in this next Industrial Revolution, because this is our calling.
by Kevin Surace
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With the two weeks of talks just beginning, most countries opened with their traditional hard line positions in preparation for the real negotiations to occur in the second week.
by Clay Nesler
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Days after releasing environmental performance data in its latest Sustainability Report, Coca-Cola unveiled new targets for reducing water use and greenhouse gas emissions as part of an extended partnership with WWF.