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This concise and fact-filled guide, the latest book by Jerry Yudelson, provides a roadmap for upgrading the energy and environmental performance of existing buildings. ...
The company's Preferred Roofing Contractors who pledge to recycle their shingle tear-offs will be able to take them to drop-off recycling and processing centers provided by Heritage Environmental...
Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. went from sending 250,000 pounds of solid waste to landfills to becoming zero waste in less than three years. ...
The United Kingdom's largest retailer says 100 percent of its waste from stores, offices and distribution centers across the country are now diverted from landfill -- the result of aggressive...
Retailers that put green practices to work at their facilities can save tens of millions of dollars a year by managing resources and waste more aggressively, according to SSA & Company. ...
Water conservation, energy efficiency, retrofits and other eco-friendly initiatives yielded Baxter International Inc. a total of $11.9 million in environmental income, savings and cost avoidance...
Green building consultant Marian Keeler and Bill Burke, the architectural program coordinator at the Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco, provide an intelligent and in-depth introduction to...
The annual conference of the National Restaurant Association, called the NRA Show, got a celebrity boost from Ted Turner when the CNN founder and America's Cup champion sailor was the headliner...
Nestle Waters North America and Keep America Beautiful have partnered to provide grants of $10,000 to 12 communities to spur recycling in public areas including sports venues and parks. ...
Not if Starbucks' Ben Packard, the vice president of Global Responsibility, and his running mate, Jim Hanna, the director of Environmental Impact, have their way. They think it's not only worth...
Waste upcycler TerraCycle has entered a partnership with Frito-Lay to turn trash from Doritos, Fritos and other snacks into tote bags, pencil cases and, eventually, building materials. Their first...
Pro sports is going for green in a big way this spring: The Atlanta Braves and Coca-Cola Enterprises are making a strong pitch for recycling. The American Airlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat,...
Tesco is embarking on a six-week trial program that will enable customers at two stores to leave whatever packaging they deem excessive, or don't want, at the supermarket. ...
Just in time for the increasingly long run-up to Earth Day, a new survey brought to us by Nalgene gauges the trashiness of 25 U.S. cities. The findings may -- or, perhaps more likely, may not --...
The Department of Energy will spend $6 billion in stimulus funds cleaning up Cold War era nuclear weapons sites in a dozen states. The lion's share, some $1.96 billion, will go to Washington state...
Meeting planners are joining forces to reduce the amount of garbage their events generate as part of the Million Tons of Trash Challenge. ...
Can the figures -- such as they are -- on the trash produced by U.S. industry be believed, or are they rubbish? Joel Makower takes on the issue and writes about why a hard look at solid waste is...
Businesses have a growing interest and need for environmental and sustainability knowledge -- so much so that 65 percent say they value such knowledge in job candidates and 78 percent say that...
The Walt Disney Company details a set of long- and near-term environmental goals in its first comprehensive corporate responsibility report for the recreation and entertainment empire of media...
Tom Szaky's recently released "Revolution in a Bottle" is a five-star book that all environmentalists should read even if they don't think they're entrepreneurs, and all entrepreneurs should read...
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