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The use of renewable energy, also called green energy or green power, can be a key strategy for businesses looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While fossil fuels, which come from coal, oil, and natural gases, contribute to global warming and cause significant damage to our air, soil, and water, green energy provides clean alternatives that cause little or no pollution at all.
Why should companies worry about carbon management given the lack of a definitive outcome from climate talks in Copenhagen? Panelists from UPS and Motorola shared their firms’ motivations at...
Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very much. And when they do it, they don’t do it very well. Friend and colleague Joel Makower likes to...
In a lightning-paced presentation, serial innovator Saul Griffith laid out the human and global scope of the climate crisis, as well as where solutions will -- and won't -- come from. ...
We wanted to know what kinds of commitments — formal or informal — people were making in their companies. ...
VC investment in green technologies totaled $4.85 billion in 356 deals in 2009, down from 2008's $7.6 billion, though the number of deals in 2009 exceeded the previous year. ...
This second annual report, by Rob Watson and the GreenBiz.com editorial team, explores the impacts that LEED-certified buildings have already had on energy, water, waste and employee productivity...
Citizen Engineer is a fusion of ideas, information, advice, and opinions to provide you with the tools and insights you’ll need to maximize your success in a new era of socially responsible...
A team entry submitted by design firms WATG and IDEO earned the top honor in the U.S. Green Building Council's inaugural Sustainable Suite Design Competition.
...Kevin Skillern, the managing director of Venture Capital at GE Energy Financial Services, talks about how his firm got into the cleantech business, some of the hot investments they're making, and...
Dow Chemical Company is marrying thin-film solar panels to conventional asphalt roofing shingles to create a product that the firm says will be easier to install and cheaper to buy.
...The CEO of Eaton Corporation talks with Marc Gunther about how demand for hybrid electric big-rigs is on the rise as commercial fleet owners stop testing the waters and dive into alternative fuel...
GreenBiz.com's senior writer Marc Gunther speaks with Eric Gillespie, the CIO of Onvia about how his firm's website, Recovery.org, is helping companies track federal stimulus spending -- and get a...
The key to Steelcase Inc.'s business sustainability practices -- and its design strategy -- lies in its approach, says Angela Nahikian, the company's director of Global Environmental...
The key to Steelcase Inc.'s business sustainability practices and its design strategy lies in its approach, says Angela Nahikian, the company's director of Global Environmental Sustainability....
Peter Beadle, the founder of GreenJobs.com, talks to GreenBiz Radio about the ways in which finding a green job is just like finding any other -- and the ways green jobs are different. ...
Marc Gunther interviews Bill Gross, the CEO of eSolar and one of the founders of electric car company Aptera, about some encouraging news: innovative green companies can still raise significant...
L.J. Kruse, the son of a gold miner, started his business installing heating and plumbing in Berkeley and Oakland homes almost a century ago. Today the L.J. Kruse portfolio includes commercial...
Samsung and LG are both planning to unveil prototype solar-powered cell phones next week. ...
The Colorado-based brewery is taking cardboard partitions out of most of its 12-packs, and earlier this month released its first sustainability report. ...
The company will use the website to communicate industry initiatives aimed at improving the environment and green manufacturing, as well as highlight the products it develops to take advantage of...
In the just-published State of Green Business 2010 report, we take an extensive look at the data behind the move toward making mainstream businesses greener.
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In 2010, we're bringing our acclaimed State of Green Business Forum to San Francisco and Chicago, digging in to the research in the annual State of Green Business report to discover recent trends in green business and hear from industry experts about what the future will hold. Read all our coverage of the events here.
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