Obama Orders Greener Commutes for Federal Workers
U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to promote greener employee commuting habits, reduced business travel and other measures to scale back indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent by 2020.
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Renewable Energy Development: Challenges to Green Growth
The Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York City offered a stark look at the technological, logistical and political challenges to shifting away from fossil fuels to greener energy sources.
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Renewable Energy Development: Challenges to Green Growth
Four Things That Should Be On Your Green IT Punchlist
Industry thought-leaders all have personal to-do lists for what challenges and obstacles are in the way of creating energy efficient data centers. Until we can combine them all into a master list, here are four steps to get us well underway.
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Four Things That Should Be On Your Green IT Punchlist
Obama: Sitting Out the Climate War
After spending three years closely following the campaign to get climate and energy legislation through Congress, author Eric Pooley says: "The missing ingredient here has been presidential leadership."
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Obama: Sitting Out the Climate War
A Three-Pronged Approach to Solving Free Parking’s High Costs
When it comes to the smart design of green buildings and cities, parking is an overlooked factor that can have a huge environmental and economic impacts.
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A Three-Pronged Approach to Solving Free Parking’s High Costs
What’s Driving the Business Case for Carbon Management?
Innovation, costs, and regulation now drive leading firms to increasingly embrace carbon management and sustainability, but within the next few years, companies will move in greater numbers from a tactical to strategic approach as factors such as emissions and resource scarcity take on greater importance in C-suite decisionmaking,
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New Vehicle Emissions Rules to Save Corporate Fleets Billions
The nation’s first federal rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles stand to save the country’s corporate fleets billions of dollars from improved fuel economy.
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New Vehicle Emissions Rules to Save Corporate Fleets Billions
Colorado Coal and Natural Gas Showdown to Herald National Fight?
A bill that would require Colorado’s largest utility to switch coal-fired power plants to cleaner fuels such as natural gas is heading to the state Senate in the next week. The natural gas industry and environmentalists support the bill but the coal industry opposes it, arguing it will drive up electricity costs and cost jobs.
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Colorado Coal and Natural Gas Showdown to Herald National Fight?
Business Leaders Skeptical of Need for Climate Action
Survey reveals more than half of respondents believe "jury is still out" on the urgent need to tackle climate change.
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Business Leaders Skeptical of Need for Climate Action
Green Executives are from Mars, Consumers are from Venus
If you ask consumers and business executives to name a green company, they’re likely to come up with significantly different lists.
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Green Executives are from Mars, Consumers are from Venus