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In two years, Canon saved enough energy in five major business offices to power its corporate headquarters in New York for four months.
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Congress this week will take up a bill that would reverse new federal lighting efficiency standards -- even though it's already led to the creation of new technologies and are saving households billions of dollars a year.
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Much-needed upgrades to the century-old internal combustion engine, the predecessors to today's EVs, and the first-ever trans-Atlantic biofuel jet flight, on this week's episode of EnergyNOW.
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S.C. Johnson exceeded its most recent greenhouse gas reduction goal by more than three times thanks to renewable energy and a system at its largest manufacturing plant that uses landfill byproducts in place of coal.
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A high-efficiency system installed in partnership with Panasonic has brought nearly 1,700 solar panels to the raceway, which is also home to 3,000 sheep that tend its grasslands.
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The shipping company move to add more than 4,000 fuel-efficient vehicles to its fleet, the launch of development of the G4 sustainability guidelines, and other stories landed on our radar this morning.
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Sharon Nunes, the head of IBM's Smarter Cities initiative, personifies the kinds of evolution that IBM has undergone over the past 100 years.
by Ann Goodman
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During the third and final session of VERGE 11, more than four dozen top executives from organizations that are leading the push for a clean economy gathered to share insights into the future of buildings, energy, IT and vehicles.
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No company approaches sustainability more comprehensively — or more creatively — than the British retailer Marks & Spencer.
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by Marc Gunther
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IBM's pairing with The Cloisters Museum shows how cutting-edge technology can be put to use in making even ancient buildings smarter and more efficient.
by Adam Aston
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This episode of the web video series Energy Now looks at what's new at the Lightfair trade show, gets inside the technologies that light up our lives, and takes an inside look at the debate around forthcoming government phase-out of incandescent lights.
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Greenhouse gas reduction slips from the top three drivers for increased building efficiency, Johnson Controls finds in its latest and largest global survey on energy efficiency.
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Google's multimillion bid to help fund residential solar projects, Proterra's $30 million boost for electric bus development and a nextgen fuel cell that looks like a refrigerator are among the stories in the news that caught our eye today.
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Widespread adoption of solar power faces a number of tall hurdles, but the biggest of which may not be technological at all; instead, it's dealing with the complexity of 25,000 different local governments and utilities setting policies.
by Sam Newman
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The resort-casino in Reno, Nev., has invested nearly $10 million in switching over to geothermal heating for its 2 million-square-foot complex -- and the ROI means they're looking to dig even deeper into renewable energy.
by Adam Aston
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In Paris neighborhoods, the streets are lined with fresh vegetables stands, fruit stores, butchers, cheese stores. What's striking about these little shops is how local they are -- and it seems to me that we need a lot less urban in the environment and a lot more environment in the urban.
by Rob Watson
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Although electric vehicles are flooding the marketing -- and shoppers are finally climbing on board -- but new research suggests that deploying Leafs in large numbers may swell your fleet's carbon footprint.
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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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TD Bank is building the first bank branch in the U.S. that wil produce more energy than it uses.
by Marc Gunther
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TIAA-CREF, Jones Lang LaSalle and Prudential are among the large-scale real estate managers that are saving tens of millions of dollars in energy costs every year through improved efficiency and green upgrades.
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In the first audit of its years-long shift to electronic health records, Kaiser Permanente found that the project has eliminated 1,000 tons of paper waste, 68 tons of x-ray film (and the chemicals to process it) and saves patients millions of gallons of gasoline.
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Thirty-four manufacturing sites operated by 14 firms have met or exceeded the EPA's Challenge for Industry to improve energy efficiency by at least 10 percent within five years.
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Since its debut two years ago, the WorldFirst Formula 3 race car has garnered accolades, spawned research projects and proved it could drive wheel-to-wheel with its conventional Formula 3 counterparts.
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The importance of the handoff of a new building to its operators is often undervalued, misunderstood and overlooked. A poor transition can mean that building operations get off to a bad start and never fully recover.
by Jim Sinopoli
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Green IT initiatives have tended to be middle-range priorities for companies, but that's changing, especially with IT's growing role in helping businesses manage energy use in their buildings and facilities, according to a recent survey of executives in the U.S., U.K. and Germany.