Decarbonization

Utility company National Grid began sending energy report cards to 50,000 of its Boston area customers this week, hoping their ability to compare consumption with their peers will drive down energy use. Read More

Researchers at the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate and CB Richard Ellis find that people who work in green buildings are more productive and call in sick less often than employees who work in conventional buildings.   Read More

Smart companies that pursue zero waste are also taking us closer to an industrial system inspired by nature, where there's no such thing as garbage. Lipton's employees and management have developed just such a system in Suffolk, Va. 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

This report finds that unchecked tropical deforestation is a major threat to vital national interests; forest protections offer the most cost?effective way to achieve fast, large?scale reductions in CO2 emissions; and that U.S.?led efforts to incentivize forest conservation would strengthen national security, reduce international instability, and help alleviate global poverty. Read More

The vision: green rooftops, not just as gardens, but as urban agriculture hubs for herbs and edible greens, grown in renewable energy-powered greenhouses, allowing city dwellers to grow and sell food locally. Read More

The company also launched a new contract service to calculate the carbon footprint of individual customers' shipping activities. Read More

The founder of Interface shows how being a tree-hugging environmentalist and the head of a thriving, $1-billion a year carpet company don't need to be mutually exclusive Read More

In an hour-long webcast, IBM vice president Steven Sams showed how putting the company's own technology to work on overhauling its Lexington, Ky., data center highlights the potential of energy efficient IT projects. Read More

The Community Preservation Corporation is a key player in a new public-private partnership that will provide $1 billion in construction and mortgage loans for energy efficient upgrades and property retrofits of as many as 15,000 affordable multifamily rental and coop buildings in New York. Read More