Daily Archives: April 23, 2008

Wal-Mart to perform energy audits at state capitols

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Consulting & Specifying Engineer. Retail giant Wal-Mart signed an agreement with the National Governors’ Assn. (NGA) to provide energy audits of government buildings in state capitol complexes nationwide.

Posted in Energy, Green Building, Green Government | Leave a comment

Lab Focuses on Detecting, Treating Pharmaceuticals

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Water & Wastewater News. The University of Colorado’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering in Boulder has opened the Center for Environmental Mass Spectrometry (CEMS), a laboratory focusing on the detection of pharmaceuticals, hormones, … Continue reading →

Posted in Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products, Research | Leave a comment

College Students Find Greener Solutions to Protect the Planet

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

EPA’s annual People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) competition plants the seeds for future technologies that are both environmentally-friendly and profitable. The competition winners announced last night show the agency harvested a plentiful crop this year. Students from University of … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards & contests, Schools | Leave a comment

HBR Green Wrap-Up: No Company Is an Island

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full post at HBR Green. For the twelve weeks from January 23 to April 16, 2008, HBRGreen hosted six discussions on the emerging intersection of business and the environment. Leaders of the business world asked provocative questions and … Continue reading →

Posted in Green Business | Leave a comment

Plug-In to Earth Week by eCycling

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

Join your friends and neighbors during Earth Week by recycling your unwanted electronics at collection events across the U.S. EPA encourages consumers to use EPA’s Plug-In To eCycling partner programs to recycle cell phones, TVs, computers, and other electronics. Recycling … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing/Consumer electronics, E-Waste, Recycling | Leave a comment

The latest issue of Greener Building News

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

A full-color, graphic version of this newsletter is available online at: http://www.greenerbuildings.com/enewsletter. Jones Lang LaSalle to Create Green Training Center for Real Estate Services Industry http://greenerbuildings.com/news_detail.cfm?NewsID=55921 Jones Lang LaSalle plans to establish a Sustainability University to provide green training for … Continue reading →

Posted in Green Building, Green Business | Leave a comment

LED lightbulbs: Are you ready to make the switch?

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story at News.com. High price and a strange color. No, we’re not talking about a hairdo. Those are the two factors that have kept light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, from becoming a mainstream light source. But that might … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Green Products | Leave a comment

HP, Office Depot, AOL, UPS Among Finalists for Uptime Institute's Green Computing Awards

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the press release. At its third annual Green Enterprise Computing Symposium, April 27-30, Orlando, Fla., the Uptime Institute will announce winners of the first Green Enterprise IT Awards, honoring organizations that are pioneering energy-efficiency improvements in their data center … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing/Consumer electronics, Energy, Green Business | Leave a comment

Turf wars rage over fake grass

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story at Stateline.org. State legislators are used to political turf wars. Now, debates in a handful of states really are about turf, pitting those who back the artificial variety against supporters of natural grass for playgrounds and … Continue reading →

Posted in Environmental Health, Schools | Leave a comment

The latest issue of Greener Computing News.

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Laura B.

For a full-color, graphic version of this newsletter, go to http://www.greenercomputing.com/enewsletter. Green IT Can Be Virtually Free By Matthew Wheeland http://www.greenercomputing.com/reviews_third.cfm?NewsID=55903 Ken Brill, the executive director of the Uptime Institute, talks to GreenBiz Radio about some of the surprisingly easy … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing/Consumer electronics, Electronics Industry, Green Business | Leave a comment