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Banks Back Away from Financing Mountain Top Removal
The environmentally destructive coal mining practice, for years a target of shareowner activists, faces new regulatory restrictions and limited financing from major banks. 
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Marketing to Consumers: Don't Think Green
In most cases, brands and organizations should have long since crossed the line from needing to point out their green-ness to working to integrate it throughout their operations. 
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Climate Risks That Every Executive Should Know About
When it comes to a company’s impact on climate change, does directors and officers insurance cover executives? While companies say yes, the insurance industry is saying no. We’re talking millions -- perhaps billions -- in legal liability here, so someone will end up holding the bag.

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eBay Gives Away 100K Reusable Green Shipping Boxes to Sellers
The company's latest green initiative encourages sellers to reuse shipping boxes made of recycled materials as a way of promoting greener shipping methods. 
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ComEd Creates 'Smart Grid Innovation' Corridor Near Chicago
The company, a subsidiary of utility giant Exelon, launched what it is calling a "Smart Grid Innovation Corridor" in 10 Northern Illinois communities where there are already smart meters installed in 130,000 homes. Five pilot tests will take place in the corridor, using the smart meter technology as the foundation. 
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Nescafé Targets Coffee Sustainability with $350M Investment
Nestlé is investing nearly $350 million over the next decade to expand its reach into sustainable coffee farming, make its factories more efficient and reduce its packaging. Beyond the Cup: The Nescafe Plan is the company's global project that adds onto the nearly $200 million already spent on coffee project in previous years. 
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Spotlighting the Green Benefits of LEDs
Since the first humans carried a torch to provide light, heat has been a by-product of producing light. Traditional electric lights give off more heat than light. But LEDs are twice as efficient as fluorescents at converting electricity to light, generate very little heat, are nearly maintenance free and provide a high quality of light. So what's standing in the way of their broad adoption? 
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Why We're Asking the Wrong Questions on Cap-and-Trade
Instead of asking how much cap-and-trade will cost, we should be asking how much it saves us. The glacier in the room is that the real costs won't come from cap-and-trade, but from climate change itself. 
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How the Fate of PACE Could Influence the Clean Energy Economy
PACE financing is a potentially revolutionary way to retrofit commercial, residential, and industrial properties with energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. The program overcomes one of the largest hurdles to investment in clean energy -- the upfront cost. This post, the first of a three-part series, looks at how the fate of PACE programs could determine the future of the clean energy economy. 
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New Rainforest Alliance Standard Targets Cattle Farming
The Rainforest Alliance has launched a new certification aimed at helping cattle farms improve their environmental and social performance. 
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