Environmental Leader To emphasize its “green” attributes, a new North Carolina McDonald’s location will add an electric vehicle charging station. The restaurant location, in Cary, N.C., which was built with an eye toward sustainability and energy efficiency, is offering drivers of electric cars the ability to charge their vehicles while they eat a meal. Its [...]

The Daily Green by Jim Motavalli The car I’m driving this week is fast, quiet, environmentally friendly, very well-made and gets excellent fuel economy. It’s a Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen TDI, and it’s a diesel. Uh oh. Until recently, diesels were a very hard sell in the U.S. because they were dirty and polluting. The fuel [...]

GreenBiz Greenpeace International today released the 12th edition of its quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics scorecard, ranking the 17 manufacturers on their achievement of environmental goals. Nokia once again remained in the top position, with a score of 7.45 points out of a possible 10, while Samsung held on to second place with its score [...]

A hazardous-waste disposal firm cleans up. By Phaedra Hise One FSB 100 company has grown by grabbing a giant share of something almost nobody else wants to touch — garbage. Not just any trash, but gooey oil-refinery sludge, contaminated Superfund mystery material and radioactive protective clothing. American Ecology (ECOL) specializes in processing (and in some [...]

First it falls from your hand into the trash (if you live in a town without recycling — or under a rock), where it mixes with food scraps, batteries, and a zillion other forms of detritus. From there, it settles in for a 1,000-year stay at the dump, slowly degrading and eventually contaminating the groundwater.

Bringing your own bags with you when you shop is a great way to cut down on waste, but it’s also easy to repurpose the paper bags that you can’t avoid, or that you still have lying around the house.

Let’s show we care about our country by making this July 4th much more green. The usual 4th consists of spending a day at a parade or festival, barbecuing and celebrating a fireworks display to finish off the evening. We can be more conscious of our environment throughout this day of celebrations in a variety of ways.

REI, Founding Farmers and The North Face are the inaugural winners of the Association for Retail Environments’ (A.R.E) Sustainability Awards launched at GlobalShop 2009 to encourage excellence in sustainable retail design.

By GreenBiz Staff Coca Cola Enterprises signed a 10-year contract with UTC Power that will bring two fuel cells to its southern New York bottling plant. The UTC Power fuel cells will produce heat and energy that can satisfy nearly a third of demand at Coca Cola’s bottling plant in Elmsford, N.Y. The project received [...]

Australia is joining the UK in using the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Reduction Label, touted as the world’s first carbon label for consumer products.

By GreenerComputing Staff SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo! today said it will no longer purchase carbon offsets for its operations, focusing its climate strategy on reducing the energy used by its data centers. The move reverses the company’s 2007 announcement that it would invest in carbon-offset projects in order to become carbon neutral. “Reducing our carbon [...]

The owners of the Sears Tower have announced plans to upgrade the building for sustainability, which will make it the tallest building in the western hemisphere to undergo such an overhaul to date.