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Your environmental management questions answered by two veterans of life in the trenches.
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Audubon International has named WCI Communities as the first homebuilder to have a residential community certified as an “Gold Signature Sustainable Development.” The designation is Audubon's highest rating for environmental design, construction, and operation of new developments.
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Councilman Paul Correa says he will put a proposed solar power law on a future City Council agenda within the next several weeks, if it passes the muster of a more thorough review he wants to conduct.
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Munich Re, the world's biggest re-insurance company, has attributed a sharp increase in weather-related disasters around the world to global warming.
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New motors, installed in the main drive of the Propulsion Wind Tunnel facility at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center will provide increased performance efficiency and savings for future military and commercial test customers.
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In a precedent-setting move, Ontario's new Minister of the Environment has approved a controversial plan that will require packaged goods makers to ante up for 50% the local government bill for curbside recycling, which will trigger weight-based packaging fees by spring of 2004.
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As 2003 comes to a close, the fate of the Kyoto Protocol, the global treaty on climate change, hangs in the balance. Renewable sources of energy show gains in the market place. And, the debate continues over energy policy in the United States.
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The sixth session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) Saturday approved a proposal submitted by the NPC's Environment and Resources Protection Committee on amending the solid waste pollution prevention law.
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Bank of America has signed an agreement with The Durst Organization to develop the first major midtown Manhattan office project of the new century, which it promises to be a green development.
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What do you do with about 5 billion tons of wood too small to be used for lumber, but by some accounts, too dangerous to leave in drought-addled forests?
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Office Depot, one of the world’s largest resellers of office products, is coloring the New Year green with the launch of The Green Book, the industry’s first catalog consisting solely of environmentally preferable products.
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With the recent delivery of a container of furniture parts to SitWell, a company that manufactures sofas for IKEA, Pueblo Nuevo of Durango became the first community in Mexico to sell its sustainably produced lumber to a major international furniture company.
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On climate change, other nations get cracking while the U.S. is slacking. By Amanda Griscom
by Emily Rabin
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On climate change, other nations get cracking while the U.S. is slacking. By Amanda Griscom
by Emily Rabin
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Home Depot has teamed up with one of the largest softwood lumber producers in Canada to offer customers larger amounts of FSC-certified Spruce Pine Fir lumber.
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Shell has widened its lead on arch-rival BP in the renewables sector with a £1 billion scheme to build a massive wind farm bringing sustainable energy to London.
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Why would a multinational cement company take the bizarre step of becoming a cashew nut farmer in Tanzania? Perhaps it’s because the company can save money and improve its environmental performance while creating hundreds of jobs, addressing local poverty, and boosting relations with local and national government. By Cameron Rennie
by Emily Rabin
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A newly formed division of the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council will promote and advocate the use of cullet (refuse glass) in alternative products.
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Green Business Network, producer of GreenBiz.com, has produced a Spanish-language edition of its popular environmental resource guide for smaller businesses.
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For years, general foremen who ordered paint at Northrop Grumman Newport News had a simple method: They just eyeballed the section of the ship and estimated how many gallons they needed
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Three-quarters of respondents in a new survey say they reach for locally grown foods first. The study, conducted by researchers at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, polled consumers in 10 U.S. states.
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Two odd bedfellows, environmental groups and some of Canada's biggest greenhouse-gas polluters, have joined forces to say the country could produce enough renewable energy to match the electricity now coming from fossil fuels and nuclear power.
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Colorado’s Aspen Skiing Company, which hosts 1.3 million skiers annually on 5,000 acres of skiable terrain, is integrating concepts of energy efficiency, feedback, life-cycle costing, nutrient cycling, renewable energy, ecosystem diversity, local sourcing, and human capital into operations at four ski areas and two hotels. ASC director of environmental affairs Auden Schendler offers an inside look.
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With the Kyoto Protocol faltering, global trade may hold the key to a comprehensive climate change agreement. By Kumar Venkat
by Kumar Venkat
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs has announced it will create a nature reserve in Tierra del Fuego in southern Chile in a stretch of rare forest acquired from a U.S. forestry company which had planned to harvest the timber.