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The fourth panel of today’s State of Green Business forum looked at the role of companies and local governments in promoting green jobs. What is a green job? How can we train and promote green jobs and who should we look to for leadership? What is the demand for green jobs? And most importantly is all this talk just hype, or does it reflect a real hope for a greener future? Leaders from the Environmental Defense Fund, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and PG&E discuss with moderator Matthew Wheeland, Managing Editor of GreenBiz.com. Read More

In the first of a series of excerpts from our just-released State of Green Business 2009 report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com look at how 2008 impacted the growth of the green economy. Read More

KFC has switched from cardboard to paper wrapping in an attempt to reduce packaging by 1,400 tons. Read More

The Colorado-based brewery is taking cardboard partitions out of most of its 12-packs, and earlier this month released its first sustainability report. Read More

Businesses are usually focused on greening one, or just a few, buildings. But architects can help reduce the environmental impacts of clients' entire existing infrastructure. Here's how ... Read More

Sun Microsystems cut the ribbon on its largest green IT project, a revamped and consolidated datacenter that is expected to slash electricity costs by $1 million a year, reduce CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons annually, shrink the company's carbon footprint by 6 percent and save 675,000 gallons of water each year. Read More

MBDC, which administers Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certification for products, has developed a C2C certification for individual materials and ingredients in products. Read More

In this excerpt from the new book Green Graphic Design, Brian Dougherty explains the three layers of design, and how designers can take the initiative to infuse each layer with greener materials, messages and efforts to change. Read More

The member-led GreenBiz Executive Network is off to a great start. John Davies, vice president of the GreenBiz Intelligence unit, recaps the work thus far of the learning organization whose next meeting is May 21. Read More

Next month, Staples will become the first national retailer to reward customers for recycling any brand of ink or toner cartridge. Read More