The Alliance to Save Energy, in partnership with Philips Lighting and energy-efficiency advocates, has announced a goal of transforming the U.S. lighting marketplace to 100 percent energy-efficient lighting by 2016.
The Sustainability Purchasing Network's downloadable guide to sustainable purchasing shows organizations how to improve their purchasing decisions and at the same boost their financial bottom line.
As part of a new program announced at the retail giant, Wal-Mart will begin scoring its electronics suppliers' sustainability practices to help the company offer its customers products that better sustain natural resources and minimize their impact on the environment.
The bonds are the first of their kind, federally sanctioned and tax-exempt, and this purchase will be used to build the world's largest green building, the Destiny USA project in upstate New York.
The program at New Resource Bank will discount loans for green projects, saving thousands of dollars and encouraging innovative and sustainable building.
The UK-based retail chain Tesco announced plans to build a $13 million solar installation on five-building, 820,400-square-foot distribution center in Riverside.