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By Alan Bryden | International Organization for Standardization
Twenty years ago, dismissive members of the business community were calling environmentalists "tree huggers." Luckily, that changed. The environment is now high on the agendas of business, government,...
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White Paper
By Dedee DeLongpre-Johnston | University of Florida
We've all read the news of companies going green and making green. The headlines make a compelling case for a CEO to take the plunge. Institutions of higher education are making similar commitments ...
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By Christine McEntee | American Institute of Architects
Sustainable principles for the design, construction, and renovation of homes and buildings are imperatives that will yield economic, health, and most importantly, environmental benefits. In terms of...
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Case Study
Chico, Calif. is home to one of the finest and most eco-friendly breweries in the country. The Sierra Nevada Brewery is considered by many to be the premier craft brewery in the United States. But w...
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White Paper
By Georges Dyer & Michelle McKay | Aedi Group
There is an explosion of awareness and interest in sustainability among college students and young professionals today, and a surge in demand for careers that are in alignment with personal values of ...
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White Paper
By Marsha Willard | AXIS Performance Advisors, Inc
Years ago one state's environmental protection agency was undertaking a major sustainability initiative. Its staff was passionate about the environment; many members were highly educated environment...
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White Paper
By Georges Dyer, Greenland Enterprises
Invisible and Avoidable
If you’re reading this in an office, look at the ceiling. Chances are you’ll see a patchwork of sprinkler heads hanging over the room. Unless you work in the fire ...
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By Mike Lawrence | Cone
Pop Quiz?
1) Define “environmentally friendly” 2) Explain “green” in under 10 words 3) Which is the most credible label?
A. Fair Trade Certified B. Rainforest Alliance Cert...
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By Kathryn Pavlovsky | Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Deloitte1 has joined with Kyoto Publishing to bring new
thought leadership initiatives directly to C-level executives in order
to share the latest on Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability....
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By Kyle Cahill / Environmental Defense Fund
Leading companies know it: “Business as usual” is changing. Customers, consumers and shareholders often want companies to address social and environmental concerns. At the same time, man...
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White Paper
By Matt Kistler | Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart believes that being an efficient and profitable business can go hand-in-hand with being a good steward of the environment. Its mission hasn't changed: helping more than 176 million shoppers...
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Case Study
By Earnscliffe Strategy Group
Ignore environmental responsibility and face the possibility of corporate extinction.
Thanks to the sustained efforts of researchers, activists, forward-thinking politicians and environmentally co...
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White Paper
By L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism Solutions
Sir Nicholas Stern and Bill Clinton both have it right. Global climate change has been our greatest market failure. Now it's our greatest market opportunity. Capturing this will require investment, ...
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White Paper
By Andrew Winston | Co-Author of Green to Gold
How do companies create value? There really are only so many ways. Borrowing from strategy guru Michael Porter's work and tweaking it a bit for the environmental age, there are four big buckets of v...
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Solution Provider
TÜV SÜD America Inc., a subsidiary of TÜV SÜD AG, is the first auditing company to be UNFCCC-accredited to all scopes and has worked on hundreds of projects worldwide within the Ky...
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White Paper
By Dmitry Shesterin | Vice President of Marketing, Faronics
Until recently, the focus in reducing IT energy consumption has been on the data center, and vendors have pursued a variety of exotic cost-cutting technologies that range from server virtualization to...
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White Paper
By Maura Dilley & Dermot Hikisch
Business is impossible without water. It is essential to almost every product and service our society relies on. By the same token, water is a risk to business. Water insecurity can cause rising mat...
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By Peter Capozuca, Kathryn Pavlovsky, and Michael Daher | Deloitte
Sustainability is increasingly influencing brand image and perception of consumer product companies. According to a study by Information Resources, Inc., about 50 percent of consumers consider at le...
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By Doug Gatlin | U.S. Green Building Council
Sustainability is fast becoming accepted as a mainstream ideal in our society. 2007 was marked by a series of bellwether events: corporate America challenging our nation's political leadership to ta...
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White Paper
By Chris Deri | Edelman
Edelman and its research partners, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Net Impact and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), recently assessed the market in ord...
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Case Study
By Lyn Brown | Catalyst Paper
Beginning with the June 28, 2007 issue, Rolling Stone magazine became the first mass-marketed magazine to print on carbon neutral paper. The special June issue of the magazine included a series of f...
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Case Study
By Deloitte Canada
Deloitte Canada is one of the member firms of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu network of firms. Deloitte professionals provide accounting, financial advisory, consulting, and tax services to clients bi...
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Solution Provider
With offices on five continents and more than ten years of experience in the market, we are one of the few intermediaries to cover the entire carbon credit value chain. We provide integrated solutions...
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Solution Provider
Cone is a strategy and communications agency that helps organizations build trusted relationships with stakeholders through the development and execution of Corporate Responsibility, Cause Branding,...
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White Paper
By Stephen Stokes, Ph.D. / AMR Research
The almost invariably gray skies independent of season in London, England, give visitors to the old city an eerily Dickensian impression that the best of times may have already passed. But in terms of...
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White Paper
By Taylor Wilkerson and Maya Ramaswamy / LMI
There is little doubt that the global business environment is tilting toward a more green perspective. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of environmental impact from products they buy and gove...
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White Paper
By Richard M. Gittleman / Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
“When Is Cap and Trade Effective? In the EPA’s experience, cap and trade programs have proven highly successful in the context for which they are best suited: reducing emissions on a...
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White Paper
By Marsha Willard, Darcy Hitchcock / Authors
It is becoming standard practice to create a business sustainability plan and report. About 75 percent of the largest corporations currently utilize one and the trend is accelerating. Increasingly, ...
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Case Study
By Mitel
In the face of rising energy prices, globalization and competitive differentiation, there has been a quiet revolution in the way organizations and employees are revisiting the notion of teleworking....
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White Paper
By Kathryn Pavlovsky / Principal, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
In a world increasingly conscious of the eco-friendliness of corporate policies and practices, businesses should target transparency in communications regarding environmental risks and liabilities. ...
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White Paper
By Anthony Campanelli / Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Corporate sustainability and greening efforts have been gaining attention as Americans become more committed to helping protect the environment. As consumers, we are encouraged to purchase green produ...
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White Paper
By Nancy Wertheim / Deloitte Tax LLP
When the subject turns to environmental issues in a retail setting, discussion typically goes either to doing the politically correct thing (such as, saving trees or eliminating plastic shopping bags)...
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By Andrew Winston | Co-Author of "Green to Gold"
"Oil Hits $100, Jolting Markets."
On Jan. 3, 2008, this headline blared across the front page of the Wall Street Journal. What a roller coaster of energy prices we’ve been on since. After ri...
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White Paper
By Paul Todd Merrill | Clayco
The construction industry has a massive impact on the global environment. Luckily, it is now re-evaluating all components of the building process, including extraction of raw materials, design pract...
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Case Study
By Unilever
Fresh water is one of Canada's most important natural resources. Given the Great Lakes and a series of watersheds draining into three coastlines, the world associates Canada with water in the same w...
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Case Study
By Jacques Whitford
Human-induced global warming and climate change have become the defining challenges of the modern era, possibly the most significant hazards our ecosystem has endured since the immense meteor that m...
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White Paper
By Bill Birchard / Author
For what is a company accountable? The answer to that has grown bigger with every passing decade because companies have become accountable for more than reporting satisfactory performance. They h...
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White Paper
By John Faust
Growth in offshore sourcing has made supply lines longer, more complex and more vulnerable to delays and disruptions than ever. The intense pressure to cut costs leaves many companies with only enough...
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White Paper
By Jessica Bier, David Linich, Christopher Park / Deloitte Consulting LLP
One challenge in creating a green workplace is that traditional methods of communicating do not apply. Research has shown that centralized greeningplans distributed from the top down have little eff...
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Solution Provider
Ex3 is an industry leader in the fields of environmental, health, safety, and security data management, working closely with industry experts to provide enterprise-class business solutions from its in...
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By Peter Breitstone |Aon Environmental Services Group
The Drive for sustainable performance has put pressure on executives to disclose more about the interactions between their corporations and their stakeholders. For risk managers, sustainability presen...
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White Paper
By Dan Reicher | Google.org
Clean and affordable energy is a critical need for the planet - and our company - so we're excited about launching Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C), a strategic initiative to develop elect...
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Case Study
Jacuzzi Family Vineyards is a new winery set on 190 acres in the Carneros region of Sonoma, Calif. The beautiful 18,000-square-foot, rustic-Italian stone structure was inspired by the Jacuzzi family...
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White Paper
By Bob Willard | The Sustainability Advantage
Companies embracing sustainability strategies can grow their "icebergs of value" above and below the waterline. They can mitigate impending risks and capture profitable opportunities.
What does a com...
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White Paper
By Anna Wilson | Nortel
By leveraging the power of the Internet, telepresence provides a viable alternative to business travel. A generation or more beyond video conferencing, telepresence creates an environment where part...
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White Paper
By Jay Carlis / Community Energy
The conversation about climate change has taken a dramatic shift recently. We are no longer debating whether or not rising greenhouse gases are causing significant ecological changes. The focus has sh...
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Case Study
By NewPage
Sharing knowledge with strategic business partners is central to the goal of sustainability. As a socially responsible business, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. made the decision to pursue a larger commitment...
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Case Study
By The Sustainable Enterprise
The Sustainable Enterprise Report spoke with Larry Vertal, a senior strategist with Advanced Micro Devices of Sunnyvale, Calif. AMD makes chips, turning silicon into processors that drive PCs, serve...
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White Paper
By Steve Rochlin / AccountAbility North America
In the last ten years, profound changes in global leadership have encouraged and pressured corporations to find solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Central to these changes has be...
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Solution Provider
As energy costs continue to climb, businesses around the world, from the largest corporation to the corner store, are looking for new ways to conserve energy and resources. And, as consensus builds on...
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Case Study
By Walter Stahel
Q: You coined of the term "Cradle-to-Cradle". Could you give a brief overview of what this term means and how it has been received?
A: The original idea was that you could actually turn the economy f...
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White Paper
By Taylor Wilkerson | LMI
For most companies, the path to sustainability begins with the supply chain. After all, the supply chain is where companies move things, make things, store things, and throw things away. It is a cruci...
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Solution Provider
Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI) is unique in the industry in that it offers a complete reverse supply-chain solution to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and corporate customers, from produc...
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White Paper
By Rese Fox / Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Many companies are taking the plunge and deciding to build green LEED-certified buildings (LEED is the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green buil...
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Case Study
NewPage, North America's largest manufacturer of coated paper, found going green to be good - not just for the environment, but for their bottom line.
Launched to trial in late 2006, and developed...
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White Paper
By Richard M. Gittleman
Energy and climate policy has dominated much of the political discourse of the past election year and the first 100 days of the new administration. Central to advancing a sustainable energ...
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White Paper
By Doug Gatlin / U.S. Green Building Council
Evidence that green buildings do not have to cost a penny more than their conventional counterparts continue to pile up, as do the studies that validate significant ongoing operational cost savings ...
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Solution Provider
Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage Corporation is the largest printing paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with more than $4.3 billion in net sales. The compan...
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By Paul von Paumgartten / Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments
The new construction of high-performance green buildings gets the lion’s share of attention in the United States when building experts discuss building trends, solutions for climate change and...
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White Paper
By Norman Beaulieu, Georges Dyer, Archie Kasnet / Aedi Group
For-profit businesses can and should co-exist and cooperate with nonprofit organizations, actively participating across boundaries to help each other more effectively fulfill their missions. We mainta...
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Case Study
By American Institute of Architects
First occupied in 1973, the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) headquarters in Washington was designed by The Architect’s Collaborative, a firm founded by architect Walter Gropius.A...
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White Paper
By Joseph Pallant | Carbon Project Solutions
It is imperative that humanity successfully overcome climate change. A vigorous voluntary carbon market that finances thousands of projects to exclude billions of tons of greenhouse gases from the atm...
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Case Study
By XCD Performance Consulting
Client:
A consumer products distributor and merchandiser for Wal‐Mart and Sam’s Clubs needed to overcome operational challenges, reduce variable and fixed costs, and improve customer serv...
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White Paper
By Jen Ace
Have you heard that going green can save your company money? One of the most useful tools for greening your business is called Life Cycle Analysis, which can help you find good answers to a range of...
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By Jade Lee | Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI)
The Sustainable Enterprise Report spoke with Jade Lee, the president of Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI) of Lombard, Ill., which describes itself as “the best-in-class leader in the electroni...
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White Paper
By Kierstin De West | Ci: Conscientious Innovation
There’s no bigger story emerging in marketing right now than the sustainability story. As consumers and brands alike are becoming more attuned to it, there’s a very important insight that ...
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Case Study
Q: What is E-waste and what is being done about it?
GEEP: E-waste stands for electronic waste, which is essentially any piece of equipment that has a circuit board inside. With e-recycling there ar...
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By Nick Smith | Kyoto Publishing
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By Gil Friend | Natural Logic
Ask most business leaders about the relationship between IT and sustainability and they'll likely talk about the increasing electricity load of data centers. As the other papers in this collection a...
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By Jesco d'Alquen | tradeslot Pty Ltd
The carbon economy is creating an opportunity for companies to create competitive advantage. It's also creating a challenge for analysts to figure out which companies are doing well and which have mer...
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By David Williams | Impact International
We live in one world. A world that is changing more rapidly than ever before. A world that is getting smaller and faster. Information can be shared at the push of a button. When something happens in o...
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By Tim Cole / Forbo Flooring Systems
If you were asked which you prefer, clean air or clean water, which would you choose? Most would say: "I want both" or, "Why do I have to choose?" The answer is that you should not have to cho...
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By Steve Chadima / Suntech Energy Solutions
Developing an environmentally sustainable economy involves investing in technologies that often do not pay off for years. Unfortunately, corporate and political leaders frequently find themselves resp...
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By James Tansey | Offsetters
In order to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, we need to reduce emissions by at least 60 percent over the coming two decades. A single magic bullet allowing governments, organ...
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By Christopher Flavin / Worldwatch Institute
The world is entering uncharted territory. Fossil fuels have made the modern economy and all its material accomplishments possible. But building a low-carbon economy is the central challenge of our ag...
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By Kofi Gamor | BearingPoint
International protocols have taken great strides to summon the world to arms regarding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the adverse effects of our rapidly increasing global carbon footprint. In 19...
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By Mark Layton and Eric Hespenheide / Deloitte & Touche LLP
Risk intelligent executives know that both threats and opportunities will present themselves in this new era of corporate responsibility and sustainability (CR&S). These business leaders realize tha...
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By Dr. Joseph Romm | Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
The Time is Now for Green Buildings
Corporate environmental sustainability initiatives are more valuable and necessary today than ever before, thanks to five major reasons: compelling evidence of hu...
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By Paul Dickinson / Carbon Disclosure Project
Twelve years ago, the Internet was a development that hung on the edges of mainstream business. A few forward-thinking managers spotted the opportunities it created, integrating the Internet firm...
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By Dustin J. Knutson | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Investment in renewable technology is fast becoming the preferred strategy for private sector business investors seeking tax incentives and declining payback terms for facility improvements. Global ...
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White Paper
By Wilson Korol / Nortel
Facing rising input costs and increasing global competition, it seems an unlikely time for companies to embrace green initiatives. But it is exactly these initiatives that can help organization...
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Solution Provider
Businesses make strides toward sustainable supply-chains through labor management programsWalking through a new distribution or manufacturing facility, you can’t help but notice the low-level ...
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Case Study
By AT&T
High gas prices coupled with concerns about climate change have made efficiency a must when it comes to corporate fleets. AT&T is taking steps to address this challenge by introducing alternative-fu...
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White Paper
By Nicola Acutt | Presidio School of Management
In recent years, study after study has shown green is the new gold. Experts agree we face a future—starting now—where "business as usual" will simply cease to exist. Given that knowledge...
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By Rob Aldrich | Cisco
Traditionally, environmentalism has been at odds with economic prosperity. Thanks in part to advances in information technology, communications, computer-aided design, and planning, this is being chal...
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By John Spurway | Atlantic Hydrogen Inc.
Atlantic Hydrogen Inc. (AHI) began with an idea. The company's founders saw an opportunity to develop a technology that, with the right combination of science and entrepreneurship, could make a sign...
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By Kofi Gamor / BearingPoint
Global climate change and the focus on environmental sustainability is an issue that can be ripped from headlines the world over. In the United States, debates over various concepts, such as carbon ...
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White Paper
By Josh Margolis / CantorCO2e
We stand on the precipice of monumental change; change that is driven by greenhouse gas legislation written by state lawmakers. Like a tsunami, this change begins with a ripple of legislation from b...
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By Toby Reid / Sole Gear Design Inc.
"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics."– Mr. McGuire advising young Benjamin Braddock in the movie "The Graduate" (1967).When those words were first h...
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By Wayne Rifer / Green Electronics Council
The revolution in information and communication technology is vastly expanding opportunities in work and play for billions of people worldwide. High technology product manufacturing and call centers...
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By Tom Bowman | Bowman Design Group
The green business movement is hampered by an inability to define sustainability goals. While companies have great freedom to publicize their own ideas, relatively few have the in-house expertise to...
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By David Comarow, Patent Attorney
The United States has a choice. It can continue relying upon an increasingly scarce source of energy, one that is rapidly creating massive climate instability, or it can invest now in the biggest ener...
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By Diana Verde Nieto | Clownfish Marketing
Awareness of global environmental change and social issues has crossed the tipping point in many places across the planet. Events in 2007 such as the successful signing of a global treaty to r...
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By Mory Ghomshei | University of British Columbia
Sustainable Development is one of the socio-environmental concepts born from post-modernity. This new notion was defined in 1987 as the “development that meets the needs of the pre...
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By Greg Drysdale | ALTEN Energy Solutions Inc.
The electricity grid has been called "the most significant engineering achievement of the 20th century." Power projects are completed on a scale that rival the Pyramids of Egypt and today, electrici...
