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Survey Finds Nearly 90% of Chinese 18-25 Year-Olds Want Greener Brands

Survey Finds Nearly 90% of Chinese 18-25 Year-Olds Want Greener Brands

A Carbon Trust survey of 2,800 18-25 year-olds in six countries has yielded some pretty startling results: 88% of respondents in China would “be more loyal to a brand if they could see it was

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Google Cools Its New Data Centers In Taiwan with Ice

Google Cools Its New Data Centers In Taiwan with Ice

Google’s new data centers in Taiwan will keep cool during the day thanks to ice made overnight. A thermal storage system, the first of its kind for Google, will balance the company’s energy needs

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Repair Cafes in The Netherlands Give Life Back to Broken Objects

Repair Cafes in The Netherlands Give Life Back to Broken Objects

A new brand of DIY self-sufficiency is spreading across The Netherlands. Skilled craftswomen, mechanics, seamstresses, and handypersons are banding together to resist disposable consumer culture. It is

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5 Kickstarter Projects That Give Back

5 Kickstarter Projects That Give Back

Are you interested in supporting green businesses but not sure where to start?  Kickstarter.com is the perfect resource!  Featuring hundreds of truly inspirational eco-projects, the site lets

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US Has a “Recessionary Hangover” According to Greenbiz 2012 Report

US Has a “Recessionary Hangover” According to Greenbiz 2012 Report

Greenbiz.com recently released their free, downloadable “State of Green Business 2012″ report and some of the statistics are quite surprising. The report begins by explaining the stalemate on

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Opportunity Green Conference Launches THURSDAY in Los Angeles – Inhabitat Readers Get 30% Off!

Opportunity Green Conference Launches THURSDAY in Los Angeles – Inhabitat Readers Get 30% Off!

Opportunity Green – the largest multidisciplinary sustainability business conference in the US – will be kicking off THIS WEEK running from November 10-11 at the Los Angeles Center Studios,

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Frito-Lay Plant in Arizona Approaches Net Zero Energy

Frito-Lay Plant in Arizona Approaches Net Zero Energy

Frito-Lay and its parent company PepsiCo probably aren’t the first companies that come to mind when you think about green businesses, but with the unveiling of Frito-Lay’s new facility in

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BMW Launches Program to Transform Landfill Gases Into Hydrogen Fuel

BMW Launches Program to Transform Landfill Gases Into Hydrogen Fuel

BMW’s Spartansburg, South Carolina plant is launching a program to convert methane gas into hydrogen. If successful, the manufacturing facility will be able to power its fleet of production vehicles

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Google Launches $280 Million Fund to Finance the Installation of Home Solar Panels

Google Launches $280 Million Fund to Finance the Installation of Home Solar Panels

Over the past year, Google has been pouring several hundreds of millions of dollars into different renewable energy venues - and apparently the buck doesn’t stop there. On Tuesday, the Internet

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THE STORY OF INHABITAT: How Inhabitat got its start

THE STORY OF INHABITAT: How Inhabitat got its start

If you’ve ever been curious about how Inhabitat got its start, today is your lucky day. As the founder and editpreneur behind the blog-turned-business, I spend much of my thoughts focused on the future:

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Apple Named “Least Green” Tech Company by Greenpeace

Apple Named “Least Green” Tech Company by Greenpeace

Greenpeace just named Apple the least green company on its list of tech firms because of its reliance on dirty coal to power the company’s data centers. Greenpeace’s report, “How Dirty

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Coca-Cola First In the Industry to Create Sustainable Shelving Made from Cardboard

Coca-Cola First In the Industry to Create Sustainable Shelving Made from Cardboard

Companies like Coca-Cola are constantly running new promotions, pushing new products and tapping into new markets. Unfortunately, with all their new initiatives comes continually changing store displays

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Food Giants Costco & Sodexo Pledge to Offer Only Sustainable Seafood

Food Giants Costco & Sodexo Pledge to Offer Only Sustainable Seafood

In their latest sustainability plans, Costco and Sodexo both pledge to use and sell only sustainably caught seafood.

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Ben & Jerry’s Factory in the Netherlands to be Powered by Ice Cream!

Ben & Jerry’s Factory in the Netherlands to be Powered by Ice Cream!

Ben & Jerry’s, the iconic American ice cream brand, has teamed up with Paques, a biotechnology company, to install a bio-digester in their Hellendoorn ice cream factory in the Netherlands. The

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FedEx Express Announces That All of Their New Buildings Will Be LEED Certified

FedEx Express Announces That All of Their New Buildings Will Be LEED Certified

FedEx Express just announced that the company is pushing itself from dabbling in environmentally friendly vehicles to making sure their buildings are kind to the environment as well. From here on out all

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South Korea Launches Eco Credits Program That Lets Citizens Earn Cash for Buying Green

South Korea Launches Eco Credits Program That Lets Citizens Earn Cash for Buying Green

With electric buses, a huge forthcoming wind farm, and dozens of ecotastic buildings, South Korea is a leader in implementing sustainable development and promoting greener choices. As a part of a new

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10 Tech Tips for a Green and Healthy Workplace

10 Tech Tips for a Green and Healthy Workplace

Looking to make your office even greener and healthier in 2011? It’s been well documented that healthy, enjoyable workplaces make for happier and more productive employees — so check out our

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5 Green Marketing Strategies That Can Help Your Business Succeed

5 Green Marketing Strategies That Can Help Your Business Succeed

Looking to get the word out about your green company? Check out our top 5 green marketing strategies that will help you get your message across while cutting down on waste (after all, you want to walk the

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Would You Use Amazon’s Preemptive Return Tool for Gifts You Don’t Want?

Would You Use Amazon’s Preemptive Return Tool for Gifts You Don’t Want?

We’ve all got relatives that seem to be missing the gift giving gene — remember those horrible holiday sweaters and itchy scarves of your childhood? Well, Amazon.com has a plan to curb

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