IBM chose an existing building to house what would become the company's most technologically advanced green data center. Re-use of the building, along with a slew of energy- and water-saving measures, helped land the data center a LEED Gold certification. Read More

"The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -- Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916. Read More

As a society, we love choices -- but with more than 300 green certifications and labels on the market, and more lining up every year, the system has gotten a bit out of control. Read More

In a green building tour de force, Johnson Controls' corporate campus in Glendale has earned four LEED-Platinum ratings -- the most awarded to a single site in the history of U.S. Green Building Council. Sodexo's North American headquarters also received certification at highest USGBC level. Read More

When you offer travelers something they like over and over, or just about anything repeatedly, they will come to expect it. That's certainly been the case with towel and linen reuse programs. Will the day will come when guests also expect to have the option to opt out of housekeeping entirely -- and be rewarded for it. Read More

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and Nobel laureate, 1923. Read More

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord William Thomson Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.   Read More

The latest report from the Green Electronics Council shows rapid growth in participation and purchases for its certification scheme, with almost 32 million EPEAT-certified electronics sold outside the U.S. since August 2009. Read More

The head of the country's third-largest cell phone provider has taken green to heart, and is making the business case for green initiatives from energy efficiency to minimal packaging. Read More

The company's next-generation facility is modeled after a chicken coop design to maximize its ability to use free outside-air cooling. Read More