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  The nation's capital city has some bold plans to be the greenest city in the U.S. The city's Energy and Sustainability Office recently launched Build Smart D.C., a new website and tracking system that details and shares energy consumption information for every District-owned facility.   As part of the Sustainable D.C. initiative, the city […]

High performance buildings are showing they can attain net zero energy in just a year. Net zero buildings typically generate most of the power they use from renewables onsite. The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) created a Net Zero Energy Building Certification in 2011 to recognize the green buildings. Each certification requires performance monitoring for […]

Can national sustainability be obtained with a regional approach? According to Mark Mykleby, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, believes we can. A retired colonel from the Marine Corp, Mykleby is working on a grand strategy that focuses on activating the public, private, and civil sectors to collaborate on long-term region investment strategies […]

As data increases and businesses are taking a proactive approach to energy savings, there's a growing opportunity to capture it with application software. Apps are a great way to monitor and make use of this data for consumers and professionals. The growth of apps in sustainability is all about data. "Energy, water, waste, toxics, carbon – […]

If you're looking to add sustainability innovation to your company, GreenBiz has an informative blog series on how to do it. The articles, from the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS), is a great guide for companies who know that innovation and sustainability to be the key to their company's success. But how do you implement […]

Google’s data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma will be running more efficiently soon. The search engine giant announced last week that it would buy wind energy from the Grand River Dam Authority to purchase energy. This will be the first time Google has partnered with a utility to buy renewable energy. The GRDA will provide […]

A recent survey found that 80 percent of real estate investors and managers have sustainability strategies and dedicated resources to implement it. What’s more is that 60 percent have been collecting and reporting energy consumption data this year. The 2012 Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) Report  included data from 450 property companies that provides […]

Becoming green is not just something nice to do for the environment; it’s fast becoming a responsible business activity. Sustainability is important from a business growth perspective, costs and margins perspective, and brand perspective, wrote Mark Bernstein of MMW, a public relations firm. Bernstein, who is the Senior VP of MWW’s Energy, Clean Tech and […]

Corporate sustainability is not for the weak of heart. In fact, making the switch to energy efficiency does take a certain amount of commitment to the project and its future benefits. But, that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Here is a simple, straightforward and effective approach, developed by Yudelson Associates, to create corporate sustainability in […]