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In a bid to cut air pollution, the City of London began spraying a "dust suppressant" today that acts as an adhesive to paste particulate matter to the streets instead of re-circulating in the air. Read More

The newest Walmart Canada fresh and frozen food distribution center will be 60 percent more energy efficient that Walmart's other centers and will be topped by wind turbines and solar panels. Read More

One area that is all too often overlooked in corporate sustainability plans is green procurement -- a move that, if done right, can raise the environmental performance of an entire industry. Read More

Most people would not consider January an ideal time to plant crops, especially January in Montreal. But for Mohamed Hage, Kurt D. Lynn and Howard Resh, timing is one of the proof points of their project -- a commercial-scale rooftop greenhouse that's designed to yield produce year-round for an urban community. Read More

PricewaterhouseCoopers publishes the fourth in a series of surveys of sustainability reporting, recommending the Global Reporting Initiative and the UN Global Compact as starting points for new reporters. Read More

The latest project from Annie Leonard and the Electronics TakeBack Coalition looks at the extended lifecycle of our billions of gadgets, and suggests developing a "green Moore's Law" for electronics. Read More

Colgate touts its single-use, non-recyclable Wisp mini-toothbrushes just a few webpages away from from talking about its respect for the planet. Read More

Interface's Ray Anderson asks, "Is there still a need for the Interfaces of the world now that some of the world's biggest firms are also climbing toward the summit?" Read More

Energy efficiency giant Johnson Controls Inc. has won a contract to provide an integrated building management system including state-of-the-art heating, ventilation and air conditioning at the Holy Mosque in Makkah, Saudia Arabia -- the largest mosque in the world. Read More

Seventh Generation's ouster of co-founder Jeffrey Hollender remains something of a mystery, even as details emerge about the sequence of events that led up to his unexpected departure last month. Read More