Leslie Guevarra

In a move affecting more than $1 billion in goods each year, Kaiser Permanente is now requiring its suppliers to provide environmental data on all medical equipment and products purchased by the largest managed care organization in the U.S. Read More

Companies that meet United Parcel Service's new green standards for responsible packaging can ship their goods with a label attesting to that fact under an assessment program the carrier introduces today. Read More

Green building materials manufacturer Serious Materials will retrofit all 6,514 windows in the Empire State Building to quadruple their energy efficiency -- but without discarding the 26,000 panes of existing glass.   Read More

Coca-Cola's glittering billboard, a fixture in downtown San Francisco for more than 70 years, has been replaced with a state-of-the-art LED display that's 80 percent more energy efficient while retaining the classic look of the world-renown logo.   Read More

Office Depot, whose annual Green Guide is a compendium of the nearly 2,200 greenest products the retailer provides, has added a new dimension to its campaign to be the working world's top supplier of eco-friendly office products. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

The aspiring stylists at Paul Mitchell Schools want your hair during Earth Week -- and not just to practice their art. They'll be giving any shorn locks to a novel environmental organization that recycles hair into highly absorbent mats for use during oil spill cleanups. Read More

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. Read More

Semiconductor manufacturing giant Texas Instruments' flagship facility in the Philippines has attained a LEED Silver rating for a new building housing assembly and product testing -- the first structure in the country to be certified under the standards maintained by the U.S. Green Building Council. Read More