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Scott Wicker, a 34-year UPS employee, hopes to bring engineering discipline to the logistics giant's ongoing corporate social responsibility efforts.

13 | March 21, 2011 6:22am | By Heather Clancy

The city of Portland, Maine awarded a $9.4 million contract to Ameresco to implement an energy efficiency program on 45 buildings across the city.

March 16, 2011 8:42am | By Andrew Nusca

The consumer products giant is the latest major corporation to step up its commitment to green building principles.

February 28, 2011 1:40pm | By Heather Clancy

Chicago's new mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to add miles of bike lanes, retrofit more buildings, and encourage urban agriculture. Find out what else he plans to do to make Chicago a leader in...

11 | February 23, 2011 8:44pm | By Tyler Falk

At outdoor apparel manufacturer The North Face, a new sustainability mantra is taking hold: never stop exploring your supply chain.

1 | February 2, 2011 7:00pm | By Andrew Nusca

SmartPlanet talks to one of Method's founders about sustainability, lessons learned, and what he's doing with 1,000 pounds of plastic he collected from the Pacific.

6 | December 15, 2010 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

At COP16 in Cancun, energy management software firm Hara announced a multi-million dollar deal with ADWEA, the utility of Abu Dhabi. On tap: $3 billion in savings.

December 8, 2010 7:09am | By Andrew Nusca

The Philadelphia Eagles has announced a project to convert its home stadium to become entirely energy self-sufficient, using renewable sources.

November 18, 2010 2:11pm | By David Worthington

The U.S. Green Building Council said the total footprint of commercial projects certified under its LEED green rating system has surpassed one billion square feet.

November 18, 2010 7:49am | By Andrew Nusca

GE and venture capital firms invest $55 million in smart grid technology, from grid storage to utility security to energy management software and EV infrastructure.

November 16, 2010 8:11am | By Andrew Nusca

Johnson Controls struck an agreement with the Holy Mosque in Mecca to build a massive cooling system for the building's expansion.

1 | November 11, 2010 8:11am | By Andrew Nusca

The robot is expected to change how oceanography is studied.

November 5, 2010 1:19pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

Honda's new North American Environmental Report reveals what it's doing for sustainability with its products, operations and facilities.

October 19, 2010 9:01am | By Andrew Nusca

Networking giant uses social network to associate itself with green behavior at home.

October 6, 2010 1:29pm | By Heather Clancy

Andrea Reimer explains why Vancouver wants to be the greenest city in the world by 2020: "Everybody's racing to own the future, because if you don't own the future, the future owns you."

September 28, 2010 4:25am | By Andrew Nusca

Penn State University is the latest university to offer corporate sustainability courses. Here are five more schools with programs.

3 | July 22, 2010 5:56am | By Heather Clancy

As international rules emerge for mining the seafloor, China takes the plunge. With heavy research and technology costs as well as liabilities to the environment, is it worth it?

1 | July 8, 2010 4:00am | By Melissa Mahony

Global cleantech investment by venture capital firms totaled more than $2 billion in the first half of 2010. Here's a breakdown of to whom and where it went.

July 1, 2010 9:06am | By Andrew Nusca

The Philadelphia bakery responsible for the Tastykake has a new LEED facility that makes it the "world's largest green bakery."

June 24, 2010 8:10am | By Andrew Nusca

Evidence is in that e-business and e-commerce are saving considerable amounts of paper and cutting resource consumption. But more study is needed.

April 22, 2010 6:00am | By Joe McKendrick