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Adapting to Climate Change: A New Frontier for Business
Despite a steady transformation of business attitudes on climate change, businesses have been relatively slow to address one global warming challenge: adaptation to the physical impacts of climate change. A new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change offers a screening process companies can use to assess climate-related physical risks. Read More
TerraCycle: Worm Poop and So Much More
(Episode 38): Tom Szaky, CEO of a company that made its name selling fertilizer made from worm castings, talks to GreenBiz Radio about making the greenest possible products from other people's trash, turning the production cycle on its ear, and other ways that companies can design products that turn waste into gold. Read More
The Economics of LEED for Existing Buildings for Individual Buildings
The Leonardo Academy surveyed LEED-EB certified facilities to find out what LEED-EB criteria has low or high costs. Read More
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2008
Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance look at where the voluntary carbon market is at and how it got there. Read More
Quantifying Sustainability
The American Institute of Architects sees how the three main green building ratings systems compare point-by-point with its criteria for what it says a green building system should include. Read More
Craft a Green IT Action Plan
This report, made available specially to GreenerComputing readers by InfoTech, explains how to create an overall green IT plan. Read More
Wood Products and Carbon Protocols
This report from Dovetail Partners looks at how the storage of carbon within wood products and the low energy and fossil fuel intensity of wood products has been ignored by policy analysts. Read More
Dr. Bronner Files Lawsuit Over Organic Claims
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps filed a lawsuit this week against several competing personal care brands alleging the companies, such as Estee Lauder, Juice Organics and Stella McCartney CARE, are misleading consumers with false organic labeling. Read More
Trends in Trademarks 2008
The 2008 Dechert LLP Annual Reports on Trends in Trademarking highlights increases in green-themed trademark applications filed in 2007. Read More
Biomimicry Design Portal
This is an early prototype of the Biomimicry Database, the final version of which is scheduled for release in 2008. Read More