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Luxembourg cleantech firm Epuramat has developed a portable wastewater treatment system called Box4Water that the company says can be deployed in sites ranging from communities, fairs and sports venues to remote areas and scenes of disaster.
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The CEO for CKE Restaurants Inc. cut the ribbon on his firm's new eco-friendly Carl's Jr. this week with a goal of making it the flagship for the company's green building efforts.
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In a move to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions, the Disneyland Resort is using compressed natural gas to fuel its 16 guest trams at the vast property and powering the Disneyland Railroad steam trains and Mark Twain riverboat with biodiesel derived from used cooking oil harvested throughout the complex.
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San Francisco is embarking on a pilot project to turn brown waste grease, known as FOG, into biofuel with help from $1.2 million in state and federal grants that will fund a public-private partnership with Philadelphia company BlackGold Biofuels and engineering firm URS Corp.
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Businesses are usually focused on greening one, or just a few, buildings. But architects can help reduce the environmental impacts of clients' entire existing infrastructure. Here's how ...
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The Rosa Parks Elementary School in San Francisco's Western Addition has won a green makeover valued at $250,000 as the grand prize in the Green Schools Initiative competition.
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Sainsbury's, Britain's third-largest supermarket chain, kicks off a major biofuel initiative in Scotland and vows to stop sending all its U.K. food waste to landfill by summer.
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The IST Energy Corporation has launched a mobile green waste-to-energy conversation system and says its new GEM can serve any site that produces at least two tons of trash a day.
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Wal-Mart's international operations have installed the largest photovoltaic solar power system in Latin America and opened Canada's first store to serve as a high-performance prototype for green building.
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Austin seeks to go 'zero waste or darn near' it, according to drafters of the proposal adopted by the city.
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Coke stages a grand opening for the world's largest bottle-to-bottle recycling plant, a $60 million joint venture of Coke and the United Resource Recovery Corp., in South Carolina this week.
by Marc Gunther
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Commercial real estate services giant Cushman & Wakefield has signed on with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the environmental impact of the more than 3,200 offices and buildings the firm manages in the U.S.
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Table scraps, discarded meals that never make it to the dining room and aging leftovers. Garbage to you and many in the food industry, perhaps, but it's a windfall for New England firm Converted Organics.
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Webroot is partnering with Guaranteed Recycling Xperts and Centillion to provide free recycling of legacy security hardware to purchasers of Webroot's new hosted online threat protection solution.
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With holiday party season in full swing, a host of sources offer tips on greening office celebrations from ideas on pared down, eco-friendly festivities in house to the ultraminimalist option of bagging it all together.
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An employee initiative called the Green Team led a drive to slash energy use, water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and waste to achieve the LEED rating.
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At least four companies in the United States are making it easy for hotels to dramatically reduce food waste volume by up to 90 percent.
by Glenn Hasek
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The landmark Willard InterContinental Hotel, which has played host to almost every American president since 1853, has released a report on its efforts to meet environmental, social and economic responsibilities.
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New York renewable energy company Green Energy Resources is working to obtain up to one million tons of hurricane-damaged forest wood from southeastern Texas.
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With rising biofuel production and growing demand for fryer grease, collectors who once charged restaurants to haul away grease are now often paying for it. But the fats, oils and greases, or FOG, that still get into drains are causing eateries and facility managers major headaches. Now that may be changing, too.
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Research projects on the effects of lighting, green building attributes and ventilation on K-12 students will receive the lion’s share of $2 million in grants this year from the Green Building Research Fund of the U.S. Green Building Council.
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USA Gypsum has added a new product to its line of gypsum made from recycled drywall waste.
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A key component of a sweeping mixed-use project to transform 15 acres along the Victoria harborfront has set a record by attaining the highest score to date for a LEED Platinum Certified building, its designers said.
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Starwood will launch in July a green hotel brand called ELEMENT that will only use LEED guidelines. More than 20 hotels could open by the end of next year.
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After spending the last few years restoring the former Federal Reserve building to her former glory, Bently Holdings Inc. unveiled its conference center this week to combine digital technology with green sensibility.