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By building its new data center for energy efficiency, eBay hopes to ready<span style='text-align: left; '> itself for larger data loads while reducing its future power bills.
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The second phase of GE's Ecomagination Challenge -- a call to generate ideas for managing home energy use -- highlights one of three ways companies are scouting out sustainability innovations.
by Eric Lowitt
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Philips, Osram Sylvania, and GlacialTech Inc. are among the firms recently introducing products for an LED market that's expected soar in the next decade. New research forecasts that LEDs will account for almost half of a $4.4 billion market for lamps in the commercial, industrial and outdoor stationary sectors by 2020 -- and the rivalry is heating up among lighting companies trying capture the lion's share of the business.
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Kohl's Department Stores and hip upcycler TerraCycle are among the winners of the inaugural Edison Green Award Winners, the latest category to be added to the 23-year-old award competition that honors innovative new products and the companies that make them.
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What happens when green business meets cleantech? When those companies are like Best Buy, Autodesk and Serious Materials, you get firms that align their products and services with efforts to foster sustainability -- and in some cases guide the marketplace toward broader and deeper adoption of environmentally responsible practices.
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We have upon us the next Industrial Revolution, where companies who make products that embody energy efficiency now have a worldwide advantage. We can’t let other countries lead the world in this next Industrial Revolution, because this is our calling.
by Kevin Surace
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A recent report suggests that energy efficient buildings commanded higher occupancy and rental rates while sales process were as much as 30 percent higher per square foot. To boot, operating expenses were lower.
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As part of its green initiatives, The Weather Channel's new high definition studio is expected to earn LEED certification. The move is part of a larger trend of TV networks adopting green practices.
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The building industry greatly overestimates the cost of building green, according to a study by the WBCSD. As a result, perception poses the biggest barrier to green buildings. <br>
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The Department of Energy (DOE) added Trane to the roster of companies it is assembling to help the agency trim energy intensity across its nationwide complex.
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More than 200 developments will join a USGBC pilot program to test the practicality of its LEED Neighborhood Development certification program.
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The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers and the Department of Energy want to improve energy efficiency in buildings by 30 percent over 2004 levels by 2010.
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Xerox Corp. introduced Monday new environmentally friendly digital printing paper that can be produced using fewer trees, chemicals and energy.
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Although IT leaders are starting to take an interest in green computing, there's a serious gap in adoption, according to a Canadian research firm.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) this week announced renewed 2007 goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its manufacturing and corporate operations throughout the world.
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Wells Fargo has financed $1 billion to construct LEED certified buildings, the company announced Thursday.
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A Quaker lobbying group celebrated the imminent LEED certification of its headquarters, which it bills as the first green building on Capitol Hill.
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Plantronics' new manufacturing and design center in Suzhou, China, has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification for environmental sustainability. Plantronics Suzhou is the only manufacturing facility in all of China to achieve LEED certification.
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Wal-Mart has opened a new, more resource-efficient store in Texas that the company hopes will serve as a environmental benchmark for future retail outlets.
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Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water Co. has been awarded the Silver Rating from the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) program, the first food manufacturing facility in the U.S. to earn LEED certification.
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The IKEA store in Vaughn, Toronto, practices environmental responsibility by utilizing a rehabilitated brownfield site near a public transit stop. By Paul Nutcher
by Emily Rabin
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To reduce the air pollution caused by commercial building energy use, U.S. EPA is expanding the Energy Star program to include new commercial buildings by encouraging the design of energy efficient buildings.
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Three building projects have received top honors in the 2004 Savings By Design Energy Efficiency Integration Awards Competition.