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RSC Equipment Rental Rolls Out Emissions Tracking Service
Read the full story at GreenBiz. While the push is on to green buildings, the RSC Equipment Rental firm has devised a new service to help reduce the environmental impact of a key component of construction: It tracks the emissions … Continue reading
Real Climate Leadership and the Rules of Policy Engagement
Read the full story at GreenBiz. As negotiators gather in Copenhagen next month to discuss a global climate policy framework, there has never been a better time for companies to influence policy instruments that could dramatically affect the future of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Policy
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What Does It Mean When Procurement Goes Green?
Read the full story at GreenBiz. Green purchasing by companies is up in a down economy. Our recent October 2009 survey of more than 450 companies found that over the past 12 months there was a 63 percent increase in … Continue reading
Posted in Green Business, Green Purchasing
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The Psychology of Climate Change Communication
Download the full report or read it online. From the introduction: The ultimate solutions to climate change are workable, cost-effective technologies which permit society to improve living standards while limiting and adapting to changes in the climate. Yet scientific, engineering, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Publications
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Survey to Explore Keys to Winning Employee Engagement Programs
Read the full story at GreenBiz. In many cases, sustainability initiatives are only as good as the buy-in they receive from employees — the men and women who ultimately turn off the lights, throw their trash into recycling bins, and … Continue reading
Posted in Green Building
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SocialCycling Program Launched To Reuse Non-Recyclable Products, Materials
Read the full story at GreenBiz. The new SocialCycling program from DMD Green is an attempt to find uses for products and materials that aren’t handled by typical recycling systems. DMD Green, an environmental and green business management consultant, says … Continue reading
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Sustainable Surfing Rides the Waves
Read the full story at Green Inc. As I wrote in a New York Times article on Thursday, the $7.2 billion surf business has become the latest industry to ride the green wave. Call it sustainable surfing.
Posted in Green Business, Green Lifestyle
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Smart grids drag utilities into the swamp of online privacy
Read the full story in Ars Technica. Ontario, Canada will have a smart meter in every home by the end of 2010, and its Information and Privacy Commissioner has now weighed in on the implications of placing detailed information on … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
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Sinking Global Warming: Is There a Reliable Way to Track Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels?
Read the full story in Scientific American. CO2 emissions rise as natural sinks slow, but how can scientists precisely track this greenhouse gas, especially in advance of a potential global treaty to reduce its emissions?
Posted in Climate Change
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Breaking the Climate Impasse with China: a Global Solution
Via the RFF Library Blog. Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Kelly Sims Gallagher http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19698/breaking_the_climate_impasse_with_china.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+belfer%252Fpublications+%2528Belfer+Center+for+Science+and+International+Affairs+-+Latest+Publications%2529&utm_content=Google+Reader [Summary] Enhancing national competitiveness to sustain economic prosperity is at the heart of concerns in both the United States and China regarding climate … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, International, Policy, Publications
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