Marketing to Consumers: Don’t Think Green
In most cases, brands and organizations should have long since crossed the line from needing to point out their green-ness to working to integrate it throughout their operations.
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Marketing to Consumers: Don’t Think Green
Climate Risks That Every Executive Should Know About
When it comes to a company’s impact on climate change, does directors and officers insurance cover executives?
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Climate Risks That Every Executive Should Know About
Spotlighting the Green Benefits of LEDs
Since the first humans carried a torch to provide light, heat has been a by-product of producing light. Traditional electric lights give off more heat than light. But LEDs are twice as efficient as fluorescents at converting electricity to light, generate very little heat, are nearly maintenance free and provide a high quality of light.
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Spotlighting the Green Benefits of LEDs
Why We’re Asking the Wrong Questions on Cap-and-Trade
Instead of asking how much cap-and-trade will cost, we should be asking how much it saves us. The glacier in the room is that the real costs won’t come from cap-and-trade, but from climate change itself.
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Why We’re Asking the Wrong Questions on Cap-and-Trade
How the Fate of PACE Could Influence the Clean Energy Economy
PACE financing is a potentially revolutionary way to retrofit commercial, residential, and industrial properties with energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. The program overcomes one of the largest hurdles to investment in clean energy — the upfront cost
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How the Fate of PACE Could Influence the Clean Energy Economy
‘Dry Water’ Could Make Commercial Waves in Storing Carbon
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‘Dry Water’ Could Make Commercial Waves in Storing Carbon
EPA Unveils New Grading System for Fuel Efficient Vehicles
The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have proposed new fuel economy labels for cars and light trucks that will score each vehicle with a grade from A+ to D, aiming to encourage adoption of more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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EPA Unveils New Grading System for Fuel Efficient Vehicles
UL Acquires Terrachoice in Green Standard Consolidation
ULC Standards, part of the Underwriters Laboratories family of companies, has acquired the managers of Canada’s EcoLogo program in a move that will expand both group’s reach in the universe of green certifications.
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UL Acquires Terrachoice in Green Standard Consolidation
Staying Sane for Sustainability’s Sake
As we approach what will be for many in the U.S.
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Staying Sane for Sustainability’s Sake
SF Hits Waste-Reduction Target Two Years Early
Recycling and composting helped San Francisco divert 77 percent of its garbage from landfills in 2008, which it hailed as a national record and the highest of any city in the U.S.
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SF Hits Waste-Reduction Target Two Years Early