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Procter & Gamble has pledged to seek LEED certification for all new facilities in the company's latest move to pursue its recently announced sustainability vision. The consumer packaged goods behemoth made the commitment as it broke ground on manufacturing plant in China.
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Tapping into the growing green movement in colleges and the power of social media, Johnson Controls Inc. is holding a contest for videos about how to build a more sustainable future.
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The San Francisco Institute of Architecture is offering a master's of science degree in green building and a master's of business administration degree in sustainability via distance learning.
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Healthcare organizations are more likely to invest in energy efficiency upgrades and efforts at their facilities than other industries in North America, according to research from Johnson Controls Inc. and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering.<br />
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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the U.S. Green Building Council have launched a grant program to support the creation of healthy, green neighborhoods that integrate business districts and commercial buildings with residential areas, retail, services and public transit all within walkable distances.
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Networking powerhouse Cisco announced major product updates this week that extend the reach and scope of solutions offered by the company's Smart Connected Buildings initiative.<br />
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Hasbro, the company behind Mr. Potato Head, G.I. Joe, Transformers and a legion of other popular toys, is rolling out Hara Environmental and Energy Management software to monitor the firm's use of resources and its environmental impact.
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<meta charset='utf-8'>The<a href='http://energy.gov'> U.S. Department of Energy</a> is awarding more than $76 million in Recovery Act funds to 58 projects that will develop advanced energy efficiency technology for buildings and training programs for commercial building operators, technicians and energy auditors. </meta>
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ATM maker Diebold Inc. has enlisted environmental and energy management software firm Hara to help chart progress toward environmental goals of increasing efficiency and reducing emissions.
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President Obama and his administration have an arsenal of more than 30 existing programs worth $72 billion at their finger tips that can be used to increase energy efficiency in commercial buildings and multifamily housing.
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Amid fanfare at Sunnyvale green building firm Serious Materials, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced on the eve of Earth Day that he signed legislation to establish a statewide program for the popular retrofit loan option known as PACE.
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Los Angeles may have the most green buildings in the U.S., but San Francisco has the best market conditions across a range of considerations, according to new research.
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San Francisco's GreenFinanceSF Program, already described as the largest retrofit loan program of its kind in the U.S., got a nearly $3 million boost from Recovery Act funds.
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The city of Wilmington and Honeywell have embarked on a sweeping $14.5 million efficiency project that includes two solar arrays, increased water reservoir capacity, a traffic light retrofit and upgraded lighting and HVAC systems for 11 facilities.
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The U.S. Green Building Council released its Top 10 lists of green building legislation in the House and Senate today and honored Rep. Ben Chandler and Sen. Olympia Snowe for supporting energy efficiency and sustainable design in the buildings.
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With 1,730 stores in the U.S. and western Canada, Safeway Inc. has contracted with environmental and energy management software firm Hara to help reduce energy consumption as well as the retail grocer's greenhouse gas emissions.
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San Francisco has established a $150 million green financing program to allow businesses and homeowners to pay for efficiency, water conservation and renewable energy improvements through future property taxes.
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In just five short years, the global market for building automation systems is expected to exceed $36 billion, according to a new study.
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Proven, existing efficiency technologies -- in everything from lighting to climate control and more -- can unlock the untapped reserves of efficiency gains buried in many real estate holdings, according to a new report.
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With help from property management firm Cushman & Wakefield, the 38-story First Market Tower in San Francisco has earned LEED-Gold certification and become the largest existing building on the U.S. West Coast to receive such a rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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In an effort to address social equity issues in the sustainability movement, the Green Building Foundation has launched with a goal of "bringing the environmental, economic and social advantages of green buildings to those who can least afford them,"<br />
the new organization says.
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Johnson Controls Inc. has honored building science thought-leader Philip Fairey with the firm's Building Efficiency Lifetime Leadership Award for his three decades of wide-ranging research, innovation and standards development involving energy and energy efficiency.
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The manufacturer of recycled-glass surfaces announced during Greenbuild 2009 that it had published an Environmental Product Declaration, allowing customers to verify the reduced impacts of its product line.
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The Green Building Market and Impact Report, released this morning by GreenerBuildings.com, measures the beneficial impacts that LEED-certified buildings have on energy, water, worker productivity and more, and charts the growth of the green marketplace in the coming years.
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Reusable and transformable facilities and materials were the top prize-winners in the 2009 Lifecycle Building Challenge awards handed out by the U.S. EPA and its partners; additional awards went to the greenest building product and the best job-creating product in the country.