Timex Unveils Connecticut's Largest Solar Array

Watchmaker Timex USA unveiled Connecticut's largest solar array yesterday at its Middlebury headquarters. Read More

Windvertising Enables Companies to Put Ads on Turbine Blades

Are you looking for a creative way to advertise your business? How about using wind turbine blades to send your message? That may be possible thanks to a company called WePOWER, which earlier this week launched its Windvertising media platform. Read More

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Evaluating the Energy Security Implications of a Carbon-Constrained U.S. Economy

In this paper, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the World Resources Institute examine eight scenarios for technological development and energy use in the United States in 2035. Read More

The State of Green Business 2009: The Green Economy Gains Currency

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

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Green Electricity: A Buyer’s Guide

This report from the North American Green Purchasing Initiative of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation offers a primer on sourcing renewable energy, including six steps a buyer should follow to purchase green power. Read More

New Belgium Brewing Co. Slashes Cardboard Packaging

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

A Green Action Plan for Existing Buildings

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 Opens a New Green Datacenter

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

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Potential Application of Renewable Energy on Brownfield Sites: A Case Study of Michigan

Conversion of brownfields into solar and wind power sites can create jobs and attract investment in addition to enabling expedited development, according to a study by the Land Policy Institute at Michigan State University. Read More

Ford Fusion to Show Fuel Efficiency "Score" On Dashboard

There's nothing that can get consumers motivated to go green like a competition, and Ford knows it. That's why the ailing car company has installed a fuel efficiency "score" on the 2010 Ford Fusion's dashboard. Read More