10 Ways to Improve Your Company's Energy Management
Although improving energy efficiency can be as simple as gathering low-hanging fruit, smart companies will take efficiency projects far beyond the usual suspects. Read More
UCSF Breaks Ground on Sustainably Designed Medical Center
The University of California in San Francisco celebrated the groundbreaking yesterday for its $1.5 billion sustainably designed medical center in the city's Mission Bay area. In Oakland, ground was broken this week for the new $244 million Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Patient Care Pavilion for Sutter Health, which also will be built according to green designs. Read More
How Starbucks Took the Lead on LEED
When the coffee giant announced its goal to get all of its new stores LEED-certified starting this year, it was the culmination of an effort to address its biggest environmental impacts. Read More
Gartner's Magic Quadrant Tracks the Evolution of E-Waste Disposal
"Out of sight, out of mind" is no longer a viable IT asset disposition strategy, and a definitive taxonomy from research firm Gartner spells out which firms are best able to meet companies' needs for secure, responsible electronics recycling. Read More
Greenwash-Free Products More than Double in Latest 'Sins' Report
As many as 4.5 percent of consumer products can truthfully make green claims -- up from just 2 percent in 2009 -- according to TerraChoice's latest 'Sins of Greenwashing' report. Surprisingly, big box stores may be the best place to shop for green goods. Read More
Technology Can Save Feds $1T in 10 Years
A report from the Technology CEO Council has found seven initiatives -- from green data centers to paperless offices -- that will create billions of dollars a year in savings at the federal level. Read More
Floating Islands: Using Garbage to Clean Polluted Water
A small company based in rural Montana has big dreams for using post-consumer plastic waste to restore fish populations, sequester carbon, remove water pollution -- and create unlimited amounts of new waterfront property. Read More
Parking Lots to Do Double Duty as Water Heaters, Chillers
Long derided as a waste of space and a symbol of sprawl, the heat energy in the pavement in your lot could soon be used to heat hot water or be used in absorption chillers to provide cooling. Read More
Bridging the Gap in Biodiversity Finance
Experts say it will cost $300 billion per year by 2020 to stop biodiversity loss, but the Global Canopy says that we are now only delivering between $36 billion and $38 billion per year. Read More
Odwalla Juices Switching to Sugarcane-Based PlantBottle
Odwalla, the juice-making Coca-Cola subsidiary, will switch the packaging for all of its single-serve drinks to bottles made almost entirely of plant-based plastic by next March. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} Read More