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Published: July 16, 2008
For Boisset Family Estates, wine is part of a long tradition, but one that is not always in tune with what's best for the environment. Jean Charles Boisset explains some of the innovations the company has developed for its packaging and marketing, and how they highlight the potential for -- and the challenges of -- changing a business as tradition-based as winemaking.
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Published: June 12, 2008
With its Considered design ethos, Nike is increasingly developing and reimagining shoes in innovative ways to reduce waste and chemical use, all while maintaining the brand's high performance standards. Lorrie Vogel, the General Manager for Nike's Considered products, explains what makes a product Considered, and how the company has turned trash into treasure.
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Published: April 17, 2008
As IT needs take up an ever-bigger part of companies' energy bills and purchasing budget, the costs of maintaining computers based on their performance per dollar are growing exponentially. Ken Brill of the Uptime Institute spoke with GreenBiz Radio about the surprisingly easy ways to drop IT costs while improving performance.
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Published: November 14, 2007
Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems (and thus Silicon Valley as we know it today), is a venture capitalist heavily involved in green technologies ranging from energy-efficient IT projects to biofuels research. He spoke with GreenBiz Radio about what it will take to keep the green momentum moving.
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Published: October 26, 2007
High-tech companies like web hosting provider Rackspace face a dual challenge in the green business world: greening their operations and helping their clients get green at the same time. The company's CTO, John Engates, explains how greening their data centers has caused ripples throughout their company and the industry.
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Published: September 25, 2007
In this episode of GreenBiz Radio, Columbia Forest Products' John McIsaac discusses the ups and downs of developing and marketing green products in a conservative industry: "What we call green building right now, in five years that will just be building."
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Published: July 11, 2007
Major retailers like Wal-Mart and much smaller-scale enterprises like Toronto's Roots are testing out innovative systems to reduce their shops' impact on the environment.
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Published: July 8, 2007
Although the demand for carbon-neutral services in the U.S. seems limited, questions linger that, with voluntary carbon offsets under attack, America's fledgling market can deliver the kinds of high-quality offsets that sophisticated global players demand.
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Published: June 29, 2007
Tropical deforestation is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change, generating twice the emissions of all the world's cars and trucks. Proposed forestry standards aim to lower the barriers preventing the forestry sector from mitigating this massive threat.
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Published: June 26, 2007
In this interview with Bob Fox, the principal architect behind the BofA headquarters in Manhattan, we learn what it takes to build the world's "most sustainable skyscraper."