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Welcome to GreenBiz 2.0!
We've been working long hours behind the scenes to make GreenBiz.com and our sister sites even more useful and information-packed. At last, we're ready to unveil it.
We have redesigned the look and feel of GreenBiz.com and all our sister sites to make it easier for you to navigate and explore. All the same great news and resources are still here, and here is a short overview of all the new additions and changes to the sites.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the new design, send a note to Carlie Peterson at carlie@greenerworldmedia.com.
Thanks for reading!
Joel Makower, Executive Editor
- 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 ...
- Leasing the Sun
The benefits of leasing transactions for roof-mounted systems are growing because installation costs are becoming more attractive, due in part to various state rebate ...- The Climate Tipping Point and Timeline ... Accelerated
Although experts are still debating at what point we're likely to see dramatic, rapid changes in global climate, the fact that the planet is able to absorb less carbon ... - Leasing the Sun
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Two Steps Forward
Exxon, the Rockefellers, and the Future of Big Oil
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Corporate America
A $3 trillion climate-change battle
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Marketing Green
Reframing Global Warming Across the Political Spectrum
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The Triple Bottom Line
Timberland And Stonyfield Farms--Two Little Guys Showing The Big Guys How It's Done
TerraCycle: Worm Poop and So Much More
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.
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Reduce Emissions
A company's approach to climate change may include setting emissions-reduction goals, measuring and reporting emissions, trading emissions, or purchasing carbon offsets -- but the central component of any emissions strategy is the policy and process of reducing emissions.
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COSTA MESA, Calif. -- The energy and carbon management company's new monitoring system gives manufacturers a detailed look at emissions from products and facilities.
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BRUSSELS, -- The European Commission has identified three areas of the economy that can be improved through the use of efficient Information and Communications Technologies.
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ATLANTA, Ga. -- With the purchase of 500 new vehicles, the company will continue to grow its alt-fuel fleet, already the largest private fleet in the industry.
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BILLERICA, Mass. -- Millipore Corp. unveiled a goal on Wednesday to reduce its carbon footprint by 20 percent during the next five years. The initiative will take aim at the its consumption of non-renewable resources and production of waste, as well as introduce programs that will foster behavioral changes conducive to environmental sustainability.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Companies such as Nike, Google, Anheuser-Busch and Levi Strauss have taken strides in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and communicating those efforts in ways that are transparent to consumers, according to the second Climate Counts Company Scorecard released today.
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CHICAGO, Ill. -- The utility company will ask its suppliers to provide hard data on their greenhouse gas emissions as part of its membership in the Carbon Disclosure Project's Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration; it is the first U.S. utility company to join the group.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The National Milk Producers Federation, International Dairy Foods Association and Dairy Management Inc. will team to address sustainability within the dairy supply chain of producers, processors, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
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Say what you will about Shai Agassi, but no one will accuse him of thinking small. Agassi, who recently turned 40, has never worked in the energy industry or the automobile business. But he's trying to turn both industries upside down by getting the world to embrace electric cars. And he is making surprising progress.
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LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- Using data generated over more than seven years, the audit focused on the company’s carbon emissions, waste and water consumption. Sole, the parent of etnies and other action sports clothing and footwear brands, will now use the data to begin trimming its footprint with the intention of becoming carbon neutral by 2020.
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Last week, I had the opportunity to witness a milestone being reached in the effort to fight global warming: officials from 18 states - representing a majority of the US population - signed an agreement at Yale University that committed their states to action on global warming.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- The U.K. government is hoping to encourage more firms to imitate the National Grid's process of incorporating a shadow price for carbon emissions into their cost-benefit analyses.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- While one company recently cut its CO2-equivalent emissions in half, the other has just laid out plans to do the same to its CO2 footprint.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- National Grid raised its greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal from 60 percent to 80 percent by 2050, and plans to add carbon budgets that are tied to financial performance, the company announced Friday.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some impacts of climate change are unavoidable but businesses can evaluate potential risks and try to reduce them, according to a new report from the Pew Center.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President George W. Bush set a new national goal of stopping the rise of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by 2025.