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Is Your Company Ready for Water Disclosure? Probably Not. Green Community Models: The Business Incubator Is Your Electric Utility Ready for the Electric Car? Why Google and Cisco will Soon Manage All Your Energy Use The CSR Cluetrain: Are Consumers On Board?
 
Is Your Company Ready for Water Disclosure? Probably Not.

Is Your Company Ready for Water Disclosure? Probably Not.

If you love the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Questionnaire, you will love the CDP Water Disclosure Questionnaire. The question is: are you prepared?

Green Community Models: The Business Incubator

Green Community Models: The Business Incubator

While past incubators may have given life support to start-ups that may not have deserved it, a new generation of these organizations (both for- and non-profit) are springing up to support eco-minded start-ups.

Is Your Electric Utility Ready for the Electric Car?

Is Your Electric Utility Ready for the Electric Car?

With what appears to be a perfect storm building on the horizon for electric vehicles (EVs), some utilities are way ahead of others when it comes to readying the grid--and their customers--for a large-scale deployment of the paradigm-changing electric car.

Why Google and Cisco will Soon Manage All Your Energy Use

Why Google and Cisco will Soon Manage All Your Energy Use

The IT leaders have re-entered your home and business in a whole new way. Companies like Google and Cisco are providing the tools to help consumers and businesses monitor and manage their energy use to reduce carbon emissions.

The CSR Cluetrain: Are Consumers On Board?

The CSR Cluetrain: Are Consumers On Board?

Companies touting their social and environmental responsibility have flocked to the web to get the message out and engage with potential customers.

Marketing Products as Sustainable? Green? Carbon Neutral? The FTC Is Watching

Marketing Products as Sustainable? Green? Carbon Neutral? The FTC Is Watching

It is time to get serious about your green performance claims. This means being sure your claims are well grounded in quantitative performance.

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How to Regain Momentum [Gang of Four Podcast]

How to Regain Momentum [Gang of Four Podcast]

Earth and Industry Radio's Gang of Four talks about how environmentalists can win back political momentum and popular opinion on climate change issues.

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Corporate Cooperation: Nike, Best Buy, Yahoo to Share Sustainable Patents

Corporate Cooperation: Nike, Best Buy, Yahoo to Share Sustainable Patents

Some of the world's largest corporations have chosen to join a web-based marketplace where companies can collaborate and share intellectual property and hopefully speed up the development of sustainable patents.

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Beyond Borders: Big Waste in the Book Industry

Beyond Borders: Big Waste in the Book Industry

There's been a huge stir recently about Borders' plan to trash unsold books left over after 200 of its Waldenbooks locations close at the end of January. But this is a much larger issue than a single case of store closings.

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Why Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Is Dead

Why Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Is Dead

Is voluntary the new mandatory? Will Sarni argues that any idea companies may have had that voluntary reporting was in fact voluntary has now disappeared.

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Will Federal Push For Greener Appliances Spark Manufacturers?

Will Federal Push For Greener Appliances Spark Manufacturers?

Manufacturers in the Cash for Appliances program are setting up an online infrastructure that will make it easier for consumers to apply for rebates.

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FloDesign Raises $42.8 Million for Jet-Inspired Wind Turbine

FloDesign Raises $42.8 Million for Jet-Inspired Wind Turbine

FloDesign secures $34.5 million of venture capital to go with $8.3 million from feds via ARPA-E program.

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Is the Sky Falling in 2010? Environmental Politics Predictions From the Gang of Four [Podcast]

Is the Sky Falling in 2010? Environmental Politics Predictions From the Gang of Four [Podcast]

Earth and Industry Radio's Gang of Four got together to speculate on what the new year will bring in environmental policy and communications. It isn't pretty. Sit down, take a deep breath, and listen.

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Intel’s 8 New Solar Projects Raise the Bar on Tech Industry

Intel’s 8 New Solar Projects Raise the Bar on Tech Industry

Intel to add 2.5 megawatts of new solar generation at 8 sites in 4 states

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New US Houses Smaller in 2009 than 2008; First Decline in 30 Years

New US Houses Smaller in 2009 than 2008; First Decline in 30 Years

New research shows homebuyers preferences are undergoing a green shift, including growing demand for smaller homes and energy-efficient features and appliances.

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Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto







Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy?

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