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While the push is on to green buildings, the RSC Equipment Rental firm has devised a new service to help reduce the environmental impact of a key component of construction: It tracks the emissions of every diesel unit that rolls out of its lots around the country.<br />
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In the latest move to expand its sustainability efforts, Marriott International Inc. says its green hotel portfolio will grow tenfold in the next five years with the introduction of a design prototype for new green properties.<br />
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Increasingly, voluntary sustainability reporting is becoming a mainstream practice. Yet with the global economy still roiling, trust in business remains low and the question of mandatory reporting is being raised with greater persistence.
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The Rocky Mountain Institute has created a new tool to help people understand how their buildings use carbon and what they can do to reduce emissions from building projects.
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Representatives from more than 150 major U.S. firms spanning consumer goods, utility and technology sectors and more went to Capitol Hill this week in the hopes of spurring the Senate to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation.
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The U.S. Green Building Council's new headquarters in Washington, D.C., Citi's new data center in Frankfurt, Germany, and now the new data center for the education services company ACT offer striking images of what it takes to achieve the highest LEED rating for a green building.
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Coca-Coca Enterprises, AT&T, Frito-Lay, Staples, Pacific Gas & Electric and Kansas City Power & Light each took delivery of an all-electric truck from Smith Electric Vehicles at the Capitol Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.
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General Electric says it's uniquely positioned to handle smart grid opportunities and challenges. On Tuesday, the company took the wraps off a series of developments to showcase smart grid -- and GE's -- capabilities. The projects include work with utilities and businesses in Maui, Canada and New Zealand and networked appliances and technology for "net zero energy" homes.
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General Electric, the world's largest industrial company, will work with the Department of Defense in a $2 million project to transform the Twentynine Palms facility, the world's largest Marine Corps base, into a model smart microgrid system.
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Berkeley firm Scientific Conservation Inc. broadly goes to market today with its SCIwatch software-as-a-service solution -- a first in Automated Continuous Commissioning that its creators say enables building owners and operators to cut as much as 25 percent of annual energy spending by tackling a condition called energy drift.
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Grant competitions opened today for $500 million in Recovery Act funds for training programs that will help retool the U.S. workforce for a clean energy economy.
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The key to Steelcase Inc.'s business sustainability practices -- and its design strategy -- lies in its approach, says Angela Nahikian, the company's director of Global Environmental Sustainability. That approach may come as a surprise to some people who have tracked this industry leader and its nearly 100-year history of innovation. Nahikian tells GreenBiz Radio about her company's outlook and the concept of "radical evolution."
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The key to Steelcase Inc.'s business sustainability practices and its design strategy lies in its approach, says Angela Nahikian, the company's director of Global Environmental Sustainability. That approach may come as a surprise to some people who have tracked this industry leader and its nearly 100-year history of innovation. Nahikian talks to GreenBiz Radio about her company and the concept of 'radical evolution.'
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<a href='http://www.greenerbuildings.com/search/apachesolr_search/Oak%20Ridge%20National%20Laboratory'>www.greenerbuildings.com/search/apachesolr_search/Oak%20Ridge%20National%20Laboratory</a>Results of an annual survey of North American business leaders reflect the constraints that the troubled economy has imposed on operations and investments in buildings: While the interest and importance accorded to energy efficiency remain strong, actions and investments to improve buildings have declined for a second year, research by Johnson Controls Inc. and the International Facility Management Association shows.
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Johnson Controls Inc. and the International Facility Management Association present results today of their annual survey of North American business leaders on the subject of energy efficiency.
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Filmmakers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis bring their acclaimed documentary on greening building to union halls across the U.S. in celebration of Earth Week -- and the men and women who build green buildings.
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Efforts to green the Mineta San Jose International Airport, where a $1 billion-plus expansion project is under way, are already paying off: A high performance upgrade to the HVAC system has yielded more than $35,000 in savings from utility costs and reduced the carbon footprint for the facility by almost 300,000 pounds of CO2 in the first five months of operation.
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Pro sports is going for green in a big way this spring: The Atlanta Braves and Coca-Cola Enterprises are making a strong pitch for recycling. The American Airlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat, and the Philips Arena, the lair of the Atlanta Hawks, Thrashers and the Dream, have won LEED certification. And NBA players are planting trees and chatting with kids about the virtues of environmental responsibility.
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The Empire State Building Company, efficiency solutions giant Johnson Controls Inc., commercial real estate services leader Jones Lang LaSalle and titans in the battle against global warming, the Clinton Climate Initiative and the Rocky Mountain Institute, are teaming up to transform the New York City icon into a model of energy efficiency.
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Eighty-nine companies, schools and other institutions were honored in a ceremony tonight by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program for their efforts to cut energy use and increase the efficiency of their facilities.
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In a small town in Pennsylvania, a growing green building materials company based in California is working to turn the tide that shuttered a more than 30-year-old window factory last October and left 150 people jobless with only a day's notice.
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States will soon receive the first installment -- some $780 million -- of nearly $8 billion in weatherization funding and energy efficiency grants available from the Department of Energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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The word sustainability is a lot like a Rorschach inkblot, says Clay Nesler, the vice president for Global Energy and Sustainability for Johnson Controls' Building Efficiency business. Everybody sees something different and it's often tough to say exactly what that is. The important thing, Nesler says, is not to struggle with a definition but to start a conversation.
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Buckingham Palace, the main residence of British sovereigns for almost 175 years, leaks so much energy it could be a sieve. That's the upshot of news reports from London detailing results of an energy survey of 170 buildings.
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A Massachusetts firm says its new device called the Vegawatt can help restaurants save money by converting used vegetable oil from fryers into fuel to produce electricity and hot water.