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Sustainable Business
- Celebrating Telluride Bluegrass Festival’s 40th Anniversary (06/14/2013)
- Renewable Choice Honored as a ‘Best for the Environment’ B Corp (05/29/2013)
- Ceres Conference Offers Something for Everyone (05/13/2013)
- A Little Energy to Save a Lot: Why Your Company Should Become Energy Star Certified (04/03/2013)
- Sustainability in Supply Chain Remains Top Priority for Major Brands (03/13/2013)
LEED Green Building
- 7th annual Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) Sustainability Summit (04/29/2013)
- Greening the Green Building Industry (03/26/2013)
- Earth Rangers Journey to LEED® Platinum (02/21/2013)
- Energy Boost: How RECs Support LEED® Certification and Renewable Energy Development (02/14/2013)
- Making the Most of LEED® (01/31/2013)
Industry News
- Colorado “Head of Class” for Electric Vehicle Policies (06/10/2013)
- AWEA 2013: Production Tax Credit, State RPS, and Direct Corporate PPA Interest Hot Topics (06/04/2013)
- Good News from Duke Energy (05/29/2013)
- The High Price of Natural Gas (05/24/2013)
- Understanding the Greenhouse Effect (05/23/2013)
Lifestyle
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(Mis)fortune Cookie- From @IdealBite
by Jen Biederman on 04/15/2009
Tags: April, Food, Green Living, Ideal Bite, Lifestyle, Sustainablility, Take-Out
Eating Less Takeout - Green Living Tip Brought to you by Ideal Bite
(Mis)fortune Cookie The Bite: Did your dessert come in a little plastic wrapper? Confucius says: not if you cooked at home from scratch. Attention all takeout fiends - try cooking a meal at home... [more]
Cambean Hotels Adds to its Brand with New Green Logo
by Megan Brown on 04/17/2009
Tags: Cambean Earth, Cambean Hotels, Green hotel practices,LEED hotels, New Cambean brand
Cambean has a new brand and a new strategy for its hotels to further set them apart.
Cambean Hotels created a new green-focused branding initiative at the beginning of 2009 to educate its guests on new environmental practices. The new branding initiative included the debut of its... [more]
Real Steals - From @IdealBite
by Jen Biederman on 04/14/2009
Tags: April, Clothing, Fashion, Green Living, Ideal Bite, Lifestyle, Organic, Sustainablility
Fashion on the Cheap - Brought to you by Ideal Bite
Real Steals The Bite: Feel like you're getting robbed when you buy eco-clothes? Call off the fashion police, and check out these under-$50 fashion-forward finds from stores you already know,... [more]
Money Back Guarantee - Brought to you by @IdealBite
by Jen Biederman on 04/13/2009
Tags: April, Green Living, Ideal Bite, Lifestyle, Sustainablility, Tax Refund
Spend Your Tax Rebates With The Planet In Mind
Money Back Guarantee The Bite: Not 100% satisfied with this year's tax rebates? It's too late for tax year '08, but in April 2010, simply return your tax forms for a bigger refund by taking... [more]
LEED Green Power for TastyKake Bakery
by Matt Kiszka on 04/17/2009
Tags: LEED-CS Gold, RECs, TastyKake
TastKake Bakery's LEED-registered HQ is offset with green power
The new TastyKake Corporate Headquarters – which is relocating to Philadelphia’s Historic Navy Yard – is pursuing LEED Core & Shell certification at the Gold level. The... [more]
Green Power Voluntary vs. Compliance Markets
by Matt Kiszka on 03/11/2009
Tags: Compliance Market, Green Power, Voluntary Market
Voluntary vs. compliance purchases of green power
Companies might purchase energy from renewable sources for a number of reasons – government mandates, a corporate sustainability goal, to achieve points toward LEED certification, or... [more]
The Shift Towards LEED 2009
by Matt Kiszka on 04/12/2009
Tags: Green Building, LEED v3, USGBC
Changes coming to the LEED Ratings System in LEED v3
A number of changes are occurring in the LEED system this year – the implementation of LEED v3 (also being branded as LEED 2009), the USGBC’s newest technical rating system;... [more]
LEED-NC Performance Study
by Matt Kiszka on 03/20/2009
Tags: Efficiency, LEED-NC, USGBC
LEED-Certified Buildings perform better than others
Commissioned by the USGBC, the New Buildings Institute’s Energy Performance of LEED for New Construction Buildings report (March 4, 2008) details what levels of energy efficiency... [more]
