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News, Case Studies, Blogs, and Web Sites

Please enjoy our top news stories, articles, case studies, blogs, and other sites of interest.

Articles and Interviews – Tapfire
Bibliography
Blogs
Business Case Articles/Reports
Carbon Calculators
Carbon Emissions Trading
Carbon Markets
Carbon Offsets/Neutrality
Clean Tech
Climate Change/Management
Electronics and E-Waste
Green Building – For Businesses
Green Building – For Consumers
Information Sources
Living
Models for Sustainability


Articles and Interviews - Tapfire

Carbon Emissions: What's Next and What You Should Know – GreenBiz (July 2007)

Carbon Emissions and Markets – KFNN Radio Interview (July 2007)

Carbon Offsets – KINF Radio Interview (Mar 2007)

Extended Producer Responsibility: Making Green from Green – GreenBiz (Nov 2006)

Bibliography

Sustainable Business Bibliography (PDF) – Our Favorites

Blogs

Alternative Energy

Alternative Renewable Energy

China Watch – Worldwatch Institute

Cleantech

Cleantech Investing

Corporate America: Making the World a Better Place…Or Not – Marc Gunther

Environmental Economics

E-Waste Insights

Finding the Gold in Green – Andrew Winston

Gristmill

Marketing Green

RealClimate

Strategic Sustainability – Gil Friend

TerraPass

The Energy Blog

The Triple Bottom Line – Andrew W. Savitz

TreeHugger

Trends I’m Watching

TriplePundit

Two Steps Forward – Joel Makower

World Changing

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Business Case Articles/Reports

Beyond the Green Corporation – BusinessWeek (Jan 2007)

Buried Treasure: Uncovering the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability – SustainAbility and UNEP

Chiquita Cleans Up Its Act – Business 2.0 (Oct 2006)

Green Is Good – Forbes (Sep 2005)

Pure Profit: Financial Implications of Environmental Performance – WRI (2000)

Sustainability Gets a Warmer Embrace from US Companies – GreenMoney Journal (Summer 2007)

The Business Benefits of Going Green – BusinessWeek (June 2007)

The Business Case for Sustainability (PDF) – KPMG (2001)

The Greening of Goldman – FastCompany (June 2006)

The Green Machine (Wal-Mart) – Fortune (July 2006)

Top Green Business Stories of 2006 – GreenBiz (Jan 2007)

To Whose Profit: Building a Business Case for Sustainability (PDF) – WWF and Cable & Wireless (2001)

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Carbon Calculators

Cool-It!

LiveNeutral

Carbon Emissions Trading

Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)

European Climate Exchange (ECX)

Carbon Markets

California Governor Sets Low Carbon Fuel Standard – Environment News Service (Jan 2007)

Cap-and-Trade: More Effective Than a Carbon Tax – Environmental Defense (Feb 2007)

Carbon Taxes vs. Carbon Markets: What’s the Best Way to Limit Emissions? – American.com (May 2007)

Interaction Between Carbon Markets and Renewable Energy Markets – National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Oct 2006)

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Carbon Offsets/Neutrality

A Consumer’s Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers (PDF) – Clean Air–Cool Planet (Dec 2006)

Another Inconvenient Truth – BusinessWeek (Mar 2007)

Carbon-Neutral is Hip, But is it Green? – NY Times (Apr 2007)

Carbon Offsets Demystified – Real Money (Mar/Apr 2007)

Carbon Offsets Replace Oscar Gift Bags – Gristmill (Feb 2007)

Industry Caught in Carbon ‘Smokescreen’ – Financial Times (Apr 2007)

Offsetting Emissions: A Business Brief on the Voluntary Carbon Market (PDF) – BSR (Dec 2006)

PepsiCo Makes Largest Corporate Purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates – CSR Wire (Apr 2007)

Shifting into Neutral – TheGreenGuide (Mar/Apr 2007)

SilverJet: The First Carbon Neutral Airline – The Informed Traveler (Feb 2007)

Take My Emissions, Please – Wall Street Journal (Mar 2007)

Three Stage Approach to Developing a Robust Offsetting Strategy – The Carbon Trust (Nov 2006)

Voluntary Carbon Offset Information Portal – Tufts University Climate Initiative

Voluntary Offsets For Air-Travel Carbon Emissions: Evaluations and Recommendations of Voluntary Offset Companies (PDF) – Tufts Climate Initiative (Apr 2007)

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Clean Tech

Cleantech Venture Capital: How Public Policy has Stimulated Private Investment – University of California, Berkeley, E2, Cleantech Venture Network (May 2007)

Clean Tech Investing Surpasses Telecom, Medical Devices – C|net News (June 2007)

Clean Tech Investments Pull in 10 percent of US Venture Capital – Ars Technica (June 2007)

Clean Technology Investment Surges amidst Global Warming – American Venture Magazine (May 2007)


Climate Change/Management

A Call For Action: Consensus Principles and Recommendations from the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (PDF)

Business Leaders Urge Reduction of Greenhouse Gases – San Francisco Chronicle (Jan 2007)

Clean Air–Cool Planet (for businesses, including case studies)

Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions – David Suzuki Foundation

Climate Change’s Cold Economics – Wall Street Journal (Feb 2007)

Flying Green: How to Protect the Climate and Travel Responsibly – Tufts University Climate Initiative

How to Seize the Initiative: The Rock Band Capitalist Tools for Cutting CO2 – Time (Mar 2006)

Investors Call on Congress to Go Green – BusinessWeek (Mar 2007)

Mankind to Blame for Global Warming, Says IPCC – PhysicsWeb (Feb 2007)

Outsize Profits, and Questions, in Effort to Cut Warming Gases – NY Times (Dec 2006)

Reducing Your CO2 Emissions – Cool It!

Tesco to ‘Carbon Label’ Its Products – Financial Times (Jan 2007)

The Business Case – ClimateBiz

The Business Case for Climate Protection (PDF) – Natural Capitalism Solutions

Tufts University Climate Initiative

What You Can Do At Work – David Suzuki Foundation

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Electronics and E-Waste

Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool – Green Electronics Council

Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia (PDF) – The Basel Action Network and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (Feb 2002)

Green Electronics – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

GreenerComputing

Guide to Greener Electronics

The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-use and Abuse to Africa (PDF) – The Basel Action Network (Oct 2005)

Green Building – For Businesses

GreenerBuildings

Green Guide for Health Care

iGreenBuild.com

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)

U.S. Department of Energy – High Performance Buildings Database

U.S. Green Building Council

What’s Working

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Green Building – For Consumers

Build It Green

Ecohome Improvement

GreenHomeGuide

Information Sources

CasePlace.org (case studies, syllabi, teaching materials)

CSRwire – CSR Business Directory

GreenBiz

GreenBiz Leaders (company case studies)

Rocky Mountain Institute

Sustainable Life Media

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Living

EarthEasy

Greener Choices – Consumer Reports

Greenopia

Ideal Bite

New American Dream

OrganicPicks

Sustainable Spaces

SustainLane

TheGreenGuide

Models for Sustainability

Cradle to Cradle

Natural Capitalism

The Natural Step

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