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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded its first annual awards and grants recognizing and encouraging green building curricula.
BILLERICA, MA -- Millipore Corp. unveiled a goal on Wednesday to reduce its carbon footprint by 20 percent during the next five years.
OAKLAND, CA-- Although all of the largest U.S homebuilders have made some efforts to green their work, none has fully embraced sustainable building as a core business strategy, a recent report found.
PURCHASE, N.Y.-- Pepsi is introducing its lightest 500mL flavored non-carbonated beverage bottle yet.
NEW YORK-- Companies such as Nike, Google, Anheuser-Busch and Levi Strauss have taken strides in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and communicating those efforts in ways that are transparent to consumers, according to the second Climate Counts Company Scorecard released today.
SAN JOSE, CA-- eBay Inc. today announced the opening of an environmentally friendly building on its North Campus in San Jose.
BETHESDA, MD-- Washingtonian Magazine has named The Tower Companies Corporate Leader in Green Building for "being green-building pioneers and fierce proponents of sustainable design and construction; one of the nation's largest buyers of green power, buying wind energy for its 13 buildings; (building) the first LEED apartment complex in the U.S. and for 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard, the world's largest Vedic office building."
NEW YORK--Imtiaz Ahmad, Executive Director of Morgan Stanley's Carbon Trading group will present on the infrastructure of carbon trading in an interactive workshop setting outlining the mechanisms
currently set in place and compare the pros and cons of alternative trading strategies and products.
TREVOSE, PA-- Pure Earth, Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Nycon, Inc. and changed its name to New Nycon, Inc.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An investment company headed by Nobel Prize winner Al Gore has reportedly closed a new $683m fund for investing in green start up businesses.
ROANOKE, VA -- Retailer Target has installed submetering systems by ADMMicro in more than 200 of its stores this year, a move aimed at maximizing energy efficiency throughout stores.
MONTOURSVILLE, PA-- LEEP, Inc. has announced that the company has formally retained NCE, Inc. Consulting Structural Engineers, headquartered in Irvine, CA.
NEW YORK-- A real estate investment arm of Deutsche Bank has accepted a challenge for building stakeholders to reduce resource use and waste while increasing support for renewable energy.
HARTFORD, CT-- The Academy of Engineering and Green Technology, opening at Hartford Public High School in August 2008, has received a $74,000 grant from United Technologies Corporation (UTC), allowing the Academy to meet start-up requirements set by the National Academy Foundation (NAF) Project Lead the Way program.
FRANKFURT--Audi sees great opportunities in electric cars and will offer automobiles with no exhaust emissions within ten years, its top executive told a German weekly.
GLASSBORO, NJ--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized Rowan University as the 2007-2008 Individual Conference Champion for purchasing more green power than any other school in the New Jersey Athletic Conference.
PALO ALTO, CA--As existing buildings become more efficient and new buildings are designed to have a much smaller impact, the green building industry is growing rapidly, from $12 billion in revenues last year to more than $42 billion by 2015, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan, and LEED is the certification of choice for that industry, although it faces some obstacles to continued success.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA-- Waste Management and engineering company The Linde Group are building a facility to convert landfill gas to fuel for Waste Management trucks.
Set to be completed in 2009, the liquefied natural gas facility will be built at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, Calif., turning landfill gas into 13,000 gallons of biofuel a day.
Gases emitted from the decomposition of organic materials will be collected, purified and liquefied for use in Waste Management's California fleet of 300 trash and recycling collection trucks.
The conversion of gas to fuel is expected to prevent the emission of 30,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year.
The $15.5 million facility is being funded party with $1.4 million in grants from the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the California Air Resources Board and the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
The North American arm of The Linde Group is designing the facility and will run the gas cleaning and liquefaction processes.
Waste Management has a number of landfill-gas-to-energy operations up and running, and the company recently broke ground on its second Canadian facility for turning landfill methane emissions into power.
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NEWBURGH, N.Y. -- Made famous in the Discovery Channel show, "American Choppers," Orange County Choppers is now housed in a 92,000-sf building with offices, showrooms, workshop, machinery space and a production area to film the reality show.
SAN DIEGO-- Expo Industries, a leader in stucco manufacturing, announces the development of the industry's first "green" stucco product, GX2 Premium Exterior Stucco.
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