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May 21st, 2013, No Comments

Articles about energy and environmental matters happening around the world.
What Should We Call Sustainability?
All of the terms for eco-friendly business practices — including “CSR,” “sustainability,” “corporate citizenship” and “triple bottom line” — are jargon and confusing, Steve Voien writes. It’s time for a rebranding exercise to create a sharper and more specific label, he argues.
How [...]

8 Earth Day Activities

April 17th, 2013, No Comments

Earth Day is Monday April 22nd, 2013. What are you doing to celebrate the largest international environmental event? The first Earth Day was forty-three years ago on April 22, 1970 as a nationwide demonstration, petitioning the government to put environmental issues on the political agenda. 20 million participants demonstrated that day which is now an [...]

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April 15th, 2013, No Comments

Articles about energy and environmental matters happening around the world.
Calls for an Audit into Labels Claiming Food Sustainability
Companies might claim they have fair trade practices, pay fair prices to local farmers, that their treatment of workers is above board or they have safe environmental practices. But consumer groups are questioning the legitimacy of some sustainability [...]

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March 20th, 2013, No Comments

Articles about energy and environmental matters happening around the world.
Achieving Scalability in Energy Management
AT&T teams up with Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in its Portfolio Energy RetroFit Challenge to prove that deep energy retrofits are both technically feasible and financially prudent when applied at scale.
Measuring the Real Cost of Water
Big savings are available to companies [...]

Earth Hour 2013

March 15th, 2013, No Comments

Earth Hour is a unique opportunity for you to become more sustainable and do something positive for the environment. It’s been the source of inspiration for millions of people taking steps towards a cleaner, safer future. It’s not just about saving energy for one hour, it’s about going Beyond the Hour with lasting, behaviour-changing actions [...]

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February 28th, 2013, No Comments

Articles about energy and environmental matters happening around the world.
NYC’s ‘90 by 50’ Plan Sets High Bar For CO2 Reduction
New York is a city made of bold statements and gestures that are sometimes backed up by bold deeds. For this reason, the Big Apple is the focus of the Urban Green Council’s latest plan to [...]

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January 24th, 2013, No Comments

Articles about energy and environmental matters happening around the world.
California To Invest $2.5 Billion To Retrofit Energy-Wasting Schools
On January 10, Governor Jerry Brown released a budget plan that would deposit $450 million into a fund for efficiency projects for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
Climate Change Prominent in Obama’s Inaugural Address
“We will respond to the [...]

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December 27th, 2012, No Comments

Articles about energy and environmental matters happening around the world.
With Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Record High, Worries Grow on How to Slow Warming
Global emissions of carbon dioxide were at a record high in 2011 and are likely to take a similar jump in 2012, scientists reported Sunday — the latest indication that efforts to limit [...]

Happy Holidays from energy exchange!

December 20th, 2012, No Comments

Top 10 Holiday Energy Saving Tips

December 18th, 2012, No Comments

By: Randi Kruse,
Pssst. Have you heard? Energy conservation is hot this season. It’s making headlines across the blogosphere, in mainstream media and at kitchen tables everywhere. All those twinkling lights inspire nostalgia, and also, it seems, thoughts about what to unplug.
Of course, you’re already energy savvy. You follow Energy Advantage for their practical and [...]