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The latest weekly roundup of green news tracks efforts to build green into the budget, the benefits to green communications, and much more.
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New this week: clean energy trends, the next "greenest Olympics," and a military contractor's sustainability project.
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Nike, Starbucks and Campbell Soup are among the consumer brands that are urging representatives to continue to support a tax credit for wind power production, currently in the final hours of negotation.
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The Princeton Review, Sierra Magazine, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education have teamed up to promote a new tool that makes it free and relatively easy for any education institution to report its environmental impacts.
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Walmart in particular marks a big leap forward, coming up from 15th place three months ago to land in third place. Generating green power on-site -- where Walmart is the second-biggest green power creator -- is what helped move the retailer up.
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At the GreenBiz Forum this morning in Minneapolis, Tari Emerson, Kohl's director of energy and capital projects, walked through how the retailer has become the nation's largest corporate solar panel owner, and how other companies can get started.
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The second annual awards recognizing leaders in real-world greenhouse gas emissions reductions today announced the 18 firms that are in the running for this year's awards, to be announced at COP17 in South Africa on December 3.
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A new report from Two Tomorrows tries to pierce the veil of greenwash claims and identify which companies are best adding value and stability to their brands with their sustainability efforts -- and which are likely to disappoint in the long term.
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The third annual tally of the greenest corporations in the United States and the world brings an overhauled methodology to the list and finds a new U.S. leader, with IBM replacing Dell in the top spot, and HP holding its second place rank.
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Google's Energy Czar, Bill Wiehl, walks us through the company's new level of transparency around energy and the environment.
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The State Department makes a trans-continental oil pipeline closer to reality, genetically modified crops lose their effects on bugs, and old car batteries get put to use in smart grids in today's mostly-bad-news roundup.
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UPS's ninth annual sustainability report continues to dig in deep to the data on its environmental impacts, while at the same time raising the curtain on how its on green progress affects its customers.
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Walmart finds financial, environmental and reputational benefits from sourcing food locally, China sees Carbon Capture as necessary to hitting climate targets, and more in today's news roundup.
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Lifecycle analyses highlight the carbon impacts of different meats, greener cargo ship guidelines, and other news from early morning radar.
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Where are all the green jobs? A new new report from the Brookings Institution and Battelle finds that there are 2.7 million in the U.S., and they're all around you.
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During the third and final session of VERGE 11, more than four dozen top executives from organizations that are leading the push for a clean economy gathered to share insights into the future of buildings, energy, IT and vehicles.
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Kicking off the week with news about the BPA debate, IBM's first 100 years, the complexities of bioplastics, and more...
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Although electric vehicles are flooding the marketing -- and shoppers are finally climbing on board -- but new research suggests that deploying Leafs in large numbers may swell your fleet's carbon footprint.
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The President gave a much-touted speech on energy security at Georgetown University yesterday, one that emphasized only the most pragmatic steps to move toward a low-carbon economy.
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The fight against the fight against climate change continues with the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Human Achievement Hour 2011.
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Two different groups have recently developed new ways to make fuels -- biodiesel and natural gas -- from waste materials in the beer-brewing process and from water-treatment algaes.
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When it comes to environmental legislation at the local, state or federal level, a pro-green business can have its voice and impact greatly multiplied. A panel discussion at today's State of Green Business Forum surveyed the landscape.
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New research from the Center for Public Integrity finds that nearly 200,000 stimulus projects were granted complete or conditional waivers from environmental regulations, in the name of funding "shovel-ready" projects.
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The Network for Business Sustainability, based at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, has as its mission bringing the most pressing questions on sustainability to the research agenda -- and feeding the results back into practice.
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In the newest campaign against the social network's new data center in Oregon, Greenpeace has created a short animation mocking the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.