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Footwear company's greenENERGY Fund invests in a portfolio of efficiency projects that target a strict 20 percent annual return on capital.
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The company talks more about why it's setting a zero emissions goal for its offices and factories by 2040, and how its sustainable sourcing goals could have a big impact on the way cocoa is grown.
by Marc Gunther
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As of this month, the more than 3,750 properties that are part of Hilton Worldwide are participating in the company's LightStay sustainability management program. Christopher Corpuel, Hitlon's green guru, tells GreenBiz how they made it happen.<br />
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The first class of 14 companies have signed up for the new WindMade label, making a big bet that shoppers will seek out products made in factories powered by wind energy.
by Adam Aston
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Putting energy management systems in place in its manufacturing facilities was one of several steps that have helped the beverage maker earn the highest score ever recorded by The Carbon Trust.
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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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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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The industry association that represents roughly 34,000 pubs and brewers in the U.K. has laid out 10 sustainability commitments that cover emissions, water use, renewable energy and others, including some goals that double the U.K. government's own targets.
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General Electric Company plans to invest $432 million in the next four years to establish four design and manufacturing centers for energy efficient refrigerators in the U.S. and create 500 jobs in the process.
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The combination of retrofit, accelerated tax depreciation and carbon tax risk analyses needs to become an integrated part of portfolio assessments. Whether a portfolio includes millions of square feet, or a series of small facilities, it invariably has untapped values in these areas. As Richard Locke said of sustainability, "You pull a thread and everything comes together."
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To hunt for energy savings at a 37-acre Pringles plant, an EDF Climate Corps fellow explores the vast facility from the production floor to the roof and crunches numbers and more to capture energy efficiency opportunities.
by Julia Li
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General Electric and four venture capital partners are offering $200 million to back the best ideas for technology that will speed transformation of the electricity grid into a digital energy network that is smarter, cleaner and more efficient.
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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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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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The new Bloom Energy Server was touted far and wide last week as a game-changing fuel-cell device. We talked to some of the first owners of 'Bloom Boxes' to find out why they made the $700,000 purchase -- and whether it's right for your firm.
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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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General Electric Company, the PG&E Corporation and Tnt Nv, an international express and mail delivery service based in the Netherlands, rank first, second and third place respectively on Corporate Knights magazine's sixth annual Global 100 list of most sustainable firms.
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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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As 2009 sputters to an end, it's perhaps unsurprising that we're in the midst of a torrent of studies and findings that all offer some roadmap of where to go from here.
by Joel Makower
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One year after setting a goal to cut corporate emissions by 8 percent before 2013, Diversey CEO today announced the company had already surpassed that target, and upped the goal to a 25 percent reduction in the same time frame.
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Two sets of rankings released in the last week aim to gauge the greening of the nation's colleges and universities. But it's in the gap between the rankings that the most interesting results are found.
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Facing an unprecedented global economic downturn, environmental issues of similar scale and a loss of trust, Business for Social Responsibility lays out its progress and goals for the future in its second annual report.