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Major survey reveals businesses are enjoying tangible and wide-ranging benefits as a result of sustainability strategies.
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One-hundred-eleven companies received Energy Star honors from the U.S. EPA in the annual awards program that recognizes the most the energy efficient businesses in a national program that now has more than 20,000 members.
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There's a reason why LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Rob Watson explains.
by Rob Watson
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The U.S. Green Building Council's LEED standard for healthcare has become official, providing a comprehensive framework for environmentally responsible building, renovation and operation of hospitals and other medical facilities.
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The chief executive of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative responds to the latest developments in the controversy over rival certification standards for the sourcing of wood and paper products.
by Kathy Abusow
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Green airports are in the news this week as the Indira Gandhi International Airport attains a LEED-Gold rating from the Indian Green Building Council and San Franciso International Airport opens a revamped terminal as a showcase for sustainable air travel.
by Rob Watson
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The vast Terminal 3 at Indira Gandhi International Airport has been awarded a LEED-Gold rating for new construction from the Indian Green Building Council.
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Bonnie Nixon, who most recently served as HP's director of environmental sustainability, will join The Sustainability Consortium as executive director.
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It seems to be a rite of spring for advocates of the Forest Stewardship Council and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative to go after each other about the relative credibility of each other’s forestry standards. This year the skirmishing has led eight companies to back away from the SFI label.
by Rob Watson
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With this week's news of seven major companies dropping their support for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, a war of words has heated up between SFI and the Forest Stewardship Council, the other wood products certification on the market.
by Marc Gunther
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The controversy over wood certifications standards fired up again today with an announcement from the advocacy group ForestEthics that Office Depot, Symantec, wholesale business products distributor United Stationers and four other companies are backing away from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative -- a report that left SFI unfazed.
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LEED Accredited Professionals can bump up their green building bona fides by adding a designated speciality to their credential for free under a limited-time offer from the U.S. Green Building Council's Green Building Certification Institute.
by Erin Emery
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Digital media software giant Adobe has added another LEED-Platinum green building rating to its tally of top certifications from the U.S. Green Building Council.<br />
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For a second consecutive year, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco took the No. 1, 2, and 3 spots at the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of 25 cities with the most Energy Star rated buildings in the country.
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The number of companies to become certified B Corporations grew 75 percent in 2010 compared to the year before as momentum builds for the new corporate form.
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New resources from the Institute for Market Transformation, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy offer a range of tools and information about policy on energy performance and rating of buildings, enabling users to dig deeply into the subject.
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The company revealed it would stop selling a dozen at-risk species in its wholesale club stores, while also committing to buying canned tuna and farmed species that meet emerging sustainability standards.
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The new wave of smart meters is going to bring openness and transparency to our resource consumption, and we're not going to like what we see.
by Rob Watson
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Why do some green buildings perform as designed or better, while others might barely make the grade, even if certified? It turns out that even the most sustainably designed, intelligent building is only as smart and green as the people who occupy and operate it.
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The USGBC released its first ranking of top states for LEED-certified commercial and institutional building square footage per capita this week as well as a new free online tool that helps homeowners get acquainted with residential green building certfication.
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BASF's SELECT Eco-Label Manager provides a one-stop place to compare eco-labels and ratings systems.
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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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More than 500 projects have attained green building certification through a program to streamline the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design assessment and ratings process for large portfolios of property.
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The laptop earned the Sustainable Product Certification from Underwriters Labs for its energy efficiency, reduction in toxic chemicals, and use of recycled materials in its design.
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For a company with more than 115 years of history under its belt, Underwriters Laboratories is making big plans for the future, and its environmental wing has set its sites on meeting the market for reliable sustainability certifications.