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		<title>E&amp;EM News</title>
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Articles about energy and environmental matters happening around the world.
What Should We Call Sustainability?
All of the terms for eco-friendly business practices &#8212; including &#8220;CSR,&#8221; &#8220;sustainability,&#8221; &#8220;corporate citizenship&#8221; and &#8220;triple bottom line&#8221; &#8212; are jargon and confusing, Steve Voien writes. It&#8217;s time for a rebranding exercise to create a sharper and more specific label, he argues.
How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/05/eem-news-40-2/</link>
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		<title>8 Reasons a CEO Should Care About Sustainability</title>
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By: Tiffany Richmond
Sustainability has long been on the agenda at many companies, but for decades their environmental, social and governance activities have been disconnected from core strategy. Most still take a fragmented, reactive approach – launching ad hoc initiatives to enhance their ‘green’ credentials, to comply with regulations, or to deal with emergencies – rather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/05/8-reasons-a-ceo-should-care-about-sustainability/</link>
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		<title>Tips for Building a Business Case for Sustainability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Tiffany Richmond
I stumbled across this article on the Sustainability Learning Center website that I thought was great summary of items companies should focus on when building the business case for sustainability. Here&#8217;s a summary of the article&#8217;s key points.
Tips on building a business case for sustainability:

Meet your team &#8220;where they are&#8221;. If they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/04/tips-for-building-a-business-case-for-sustainability/</link>
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		<title>8 Earth Day Activities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/04/8-earth-day-activities/</link>
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		<title>E&amp;EM News</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/04/eem-news-40/</link>
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		<title>Energy Advantage Inc. Complies with New Canadian Standard on Assurance Engagements, CSAE 3416</title>
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By: Tiffany Richmond
Folks at Energy Advantage are very pleased to announce that its internal controls and systems are compliant with the new Canadian standard for third party assurance reporting, CSAE 3416. Every year the company undergoes a strict audit from independent third party auditors to assess the internal control objectives of its utility bill payment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/04/energy-advantage-inc-complies-with-new-canadian-standard-on-assurance-engagements-csae-3416/</link>
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		<title>You’ve Collected Your Energy Data. Now What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Tiffany Richmond
Over the past several months you have been working hard to collect and input your portfolio’s historical energy data into one centralized database (ideally it’s in an online database) and setting up a process to track the data on a continuous basis. You’ve spent hours on the phone with utilities requesting utility invoices, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/03/you%e2%80%99ve-collected-your-energy-data-now-what/</link>
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		<title>E&amp;EM News</title>
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Articles about energy and environmental matters happening around the world.
Achieving Scalability in Energy Management
AT&#38;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/03/eem-news-39/</link>
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		<title>Earth Hour 2013</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/03/earth-hour-2013/</link>
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		<title>Energy Data Collection &#124; Where to Begin?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Tiffany Richmond
In order to respond to their energy and environmental challenges, organizations need to clearly understand their energy costs, identify areas for improvement in operational practices, reduce energy costs and environmental impact, develop a baseline to compare against industry benchmarks or future performance, and finally, to track and report their performance. These key initiatives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.energyadvantage.com/blog/2013/03/energy-data-collection-where-to-begin/</link>
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