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Just as with a weight-loss diet, building owners are essentially united in knowing they need to use less energy -- the just don’t know how to go about it. The DOE’s new Better Building Challenge aims to bring the success of Energy Star to the building market.
by Jim Pierobon
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The football club has earned two environmental certifications, recently becoming the first to earn ISO14001 certification; now it's setting its sights on a sustainable events standard.
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The world's largest semiconductor producer says its newest data center will save 2.21 million kilowatt-hours of electricity and eliminate 1,350 tons of carbon emissions a year.
by Derek Top
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San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid, a unique silhouette on the city skyline for almost 40 years, celebrates a green building milestone.
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The forerunner of many of today's environmental standards, the ISO 14001 environmental management certification suffers from a widespread perception that it simply provides cover for polluters. What does certifcation really mean today?
by Paul Leavoy
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During a webcast organized by GreenBiz.com this week, representatives from the US Department of Energy and Underwriters Laboratories walked through the details of the just-released energy management standard, and how companies can get on board, quickly.
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The largest bank in the U.S. issues its first CSR report today providing a comprehensive, deeply detailed view of billions of dollars in environmental lending, investments, company projects, and more.
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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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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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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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The U.S. General Services Administration has upped the ante again on green building and now requires all new federal buildings and major renovation projects to achieve at least LEED-Gold certification.
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Honeywell, Southern California Edison, Pacfic Gas & Electric and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are among the companies and organizations that have formed an alliance to spur development, adoption and compliance of the smart grid standard called Open Automated Demand Response.<br />
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Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, the first carrier to broadly offer green insurance in the U.S. commercial marketplace, is extending its Green-Gard coverage to schools -- public and private facilities, colleges and universities, and trade and vocational institutions.<br />
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A Northern California College, snack-manufacturer Shearer's Foods Inc. and Procter & Gamble with a study on green cleaning are highlighted this week for their efforts to raise the bar for greener buildings.<br />
by Rob Watson
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The new green certification standard for restaurants from Green Seal is a valuable tool for improving efficiency and reducing waste, but some of its requirements will keep mom and pop businesses from doing anything more than the bare minimum.
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Yogi Berra warned that "It's tough to make predictions, particularly about the future," but this week Leanne Tobias offers her top 10 predictions for the green market in 2010. Myself, I'm particularly fond of predictions ...
by Rob Watson
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Launched last June, the Level sustainability standards program of the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer’s Association has certified more than 200 products.
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Fifteen Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in 10 states have received Green Globes green building ratings under the assessment system administered by the Green Building Initiative.
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The concept of a triple bottom line, where social and environmental factors are considered along with economic ones, is also getting a lot of attention. Is this another business fad? I don't think so.
by Mitch Tyson
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With a new-found awareness of the potential of energy efficiency, 2010 promises to be a year of action to green buildings. There are three key factors that get people to act: incentives, funding and solutions that are proven to work.
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B Lab, the nonprofit that created the sustainable business certification, launched its building industry addenda at the <a href='http://www.greenerbuildings.com/view-term/all/Greenbuild%202009'>Greenbuild </a>conference Thursday, the product of 18 months of development by more than two dozen industry leaders.
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The first 24 hours of Greenbuild 2009 brought a flurry of announcements, including the latest version of the Living Building Challenge standards, the largest city-sponsored residential solar financing program in the country, and a big push from Electric lighting control firm Lutron to revamp its technologies to take advantage of potential energy savings and smart grid development.
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Commercial real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle will continue to provide facility and property management for 25 regional U.S. offices of McDonald's Corp. and 831,000 square feet of the restaurant company's office space in the Chicago area.