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Honeywell, KCP&L to Expand Demand Response Program
Diversified technology and manufacturing firm Honeywell and Kansas City Power & Light are extending their arrangement for Honeywell to manage the utility's Energy Optimizer Program for another three years with a goal of bringing total participation to almost 80,000 homes, apartment and small businesses. Read More
REC vs. Carbon Offset: Do You Know the Difference?
As the U.S. carbon and clean energy markets continue evolving, it’s important for everyone -- from policy makers to your average offset purchaser -- to understand why there's much more to it than building windmills. Read More
Buckingham Palace Tops List of the Least Green Buildings in London
Buckingham Palace, the main residence of British sovereigns for almost 175 years, leaks so much energy it could be a sieve. That's the upshot of news reports from London detailing results of an energy survey of 170 buildings. Read More
Clean Energy Trends 2009
How is clean energy technology faring amid the countervailing forces of Obama stimulus and economic meltdown? The seventh annual Clean Energy Trends report details the growth and challenges of the sector -- and provides experts' take on five key trends. Read More
Yum Brands Opens First Green KFC-Taco Bell Restaurant
Restaurant giant Yum Brands Inc. has opened an eco-friendly KFC-Taco Bell in Northampton, Mass., marking the 11-year-old company's first attempt to seek green building certification for one of its eateries. Read More
Canned Diet Coke Offers Smaller Carbon Footprint
A can of diet Coke or Coke Zero both have a 150g carbon footprint, compared to 170g for regular Coca-Cola. Toss the empty can in the recycling bin and the footprint shrinks to 85g. Read More
Disney Aims for Zero Carbon Emissions, Zero Waste in New Environmental Goals
The Walt Disney Company details a set of long- and near-term environmental goals in its first comprehensive corporate responsibility report for the recreation and entertainment empire of media networks, theme parks, resorts, cruise and travel tours, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media businesses. Read More
A Roadmap for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate Change
This report presents a vision and a concrete roadmap for U.S.-China collaboration focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the effects of climate change. Read More
Cisco Teams with NASA to Develop 'Planetary Skin'
Cisco is using its networking expertise to help NASA develop an online monitoring platform that will collect data from around the world and turn it into useful information to help governments, businesses and the general public address climate change. Read More
Apple, Al Gore and Climate Change
Apple Inc. had its shareholder meeting Wednesday and the media focused on the absence of its charismatic leader Steve Jobs. But there's an even more famous guy associated with Apple: Al Gore. And Conrad MacKerron asks how it can be that with Gore on its board, Apple continues to be outdistanced by its peers on climate issues and initiatives to address them. Read More