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Storage Center Cuts Emissions 11.5% Via Renewables, Efficiency

A UK self-storage center has adopted energy efficient lighting and renewable energy to cut its emissions 11.5 percent in 2008. Big Yellow Self Storage saved $165,000 as a result of the changes, reports...

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Intel Uses Facebook App to Help Power Climate Research

Facebook users who acquiesce to an Intel application that operates on idle computer power are helping researchers conduct models on climate change and other global problems. The Progress Through...

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EPEAT Registry Goes Global

A registry that rates computer desktops, laptops and monitors by their energy efficiency and other environmental measures now has been synchronized with the equipment that is actually available for...

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Study Finds Consumers Ready to Pay for Electrical Grid Upgrades

Fifty-seven percent of Americans agree that the nation’s electrical grid infrastructure should be upgraded to support new generation and further deployment of alternative energy technologies, according...

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Global Emissions Up 2%

Despite worldwide efforts to cut CO2 emissions, nations spewed 1.94 percent more CO2 emissions in 2008 than in 2007, according to new analysis by German-based renewable energy industry institute IWR,...

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Nestle Loses Plastic in 100% Recyclable Christmas Boxes

It may be more than four months until Christmas, but Nestle already is finding ways to reduce the expected piles of holiday gift waste. The candy maker has eliminated a plastic tray from its holiday...

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Deloitte Opens Center for Sustainability Performance

Consulting firm Deloitte sees great enough promise in the sustainability sector that it has opened a new business unit dedicated to the sector. The Center for Sustainability Performance will provide...

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Kraft Saves 3B Gallons of Water in Three Years

Over the past three years, Kraft Foods has reduced its water consumption in manufacturing processes globally by 21 percent, or by more than 3 billion gallons. This exceeds the company’s goal two years...

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UK Food Label Would Show Items’ Environmental Impact

The UK may implement a food labeling scheme that details elements such as the number of miles from the source to the UK – a.k.a. food miles -  as well as the amount and type of chemicals used on the...

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Hilton, Kimpton Hotel Chains Go for the Green

Thanks to energy-efficient features, recycling programs and water conservation, among other sustainable features, the Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group and Hilton Hotels Corp. have announced the...

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How Fair Trade Relates to Sustainability

Teresa Fabian, Director of Sustainability and Climate Change for PricewaterhouseCoopers, speaks at the Fairtrade Foundation Commercial Conference.

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$500B Plan for U.S. Green Building Retrofits Touted

The United States can build a low-carbon economy by retrofitting existing homes and businesses for energy efficiency, which would reduce waste and pollution, jumpstart an economic recovery, create good...

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Aside from U.S., Rich Nations to Cut CO2 Emissions 15-21%

Industrialized nations excluding the United States will cut greenhouse gas emissions between 15 and 21 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 under a new U.N. climate pact, reports Reuters. This means...

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U.S. CO2 Emissions From Fuels to Fall 5% in 2009

As a direct result of the recession, U.S. emissions from fuels, including coal plants, are predicted to fall 5 percent in 2009, according to the Energy Information Administration. The progress on...

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FTC Charges Clothing Firms With ‘Bamboo-zling’ The Public

Four companies selling clothing marketed as made from bamboo have been charged by the Federal Trade Commission with deceptive advertising and marketing claims. The companies sold rayon clothing and...

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Country Club, Sports Arena Cut Energy Bills by 10-18%

Businesses that are serious about cutting their energy use should evaluate the variety of energy-saving technologies that are available to them. In many cases, the savings can add up to thousands of...

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Judge Terminates Boston’s Green Taxi Mandate

A federal judge recently ruled that a year-old mandate that requires cab owners in Boston, Massachusetts, to buy new hybrid cars by 2015 violated an act of Congress, reports The Boston Globe. Despite...

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China to Start Cutting CO2 Emissions in 2050

China’s top climate change policy maker says carbon emissions will start falling in 2050, which is the first time the world’s largest emitter has provided a target date for carbon reductions, reports...

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Australian Government Negotiates on Climate Change Bill

The Australian government has split its climate change bill into two parts so the renewable energy target will not be dependent on the carbon emissions scheme in an effort to break a deadlock in the...

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Frito-Lay Among Adopters of Cogen Plants

Adding an on-site electricity generating system that also benefits a manufacturing or business process is becoming increasingly more attractive for major companies and other organizations. Frito Lay,...

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