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08-10-10
Michelin Doubles Commitment to Upstate Development Program
/PRNewswire/ - Michelin is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its Michelin Development Upstate low-interest loan program but it's the Upstate community that is getting the present. Dick Wilkerson, chairman and president of Michelin North America, announced today that Mi...
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08-10-10
City of Chicago Hosts Carbon Nation Celebration at Millennium Park
Today, Chicago residents, celebrities and government officials will gather in Millennium Park for a free festival to learn about simple actions that can reduce their carbon footprint and create a positive environmental impact.
The Carbon Nation...
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08-10-10
NativeEnergy Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation
NativeEnergy, an innovator in the United States carbon market, today launched its year-long 10-Year Anniversary program. The company was formed in August 2000 and soon began working with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to develop and help finance the first tribally owned la...
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08-10-10
Wachovia Wells Fargo NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance Announce 2010 Finalists for $8.25 Million
The nation's largest and most prestigious awards program for community development financial institutions (CDFIs) announced today that four leading U.S. CDFIs are finalists for awards totaling $8.25 million. Two finalists will compete for $5.5 million, and two finalists will...
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08-10-10
JCPenney Achieves LEED(R) Distinctions for Green Building Design and Operations
/PRNewswire/ - J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has been awarded a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Existing Buildings Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for its Home Office campus located in Plano, Texas. The 1.9 mill...
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08-10-10
UK government installs metering to cut energy use
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) confirmed last week that all departments have made detailed energy use data available. DECC and the Home Office led the way with energy meters that update departmental energy use every five seconds, while other departments h...
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08-10-10
Bonn Climate change talks go backwards
After diplomats gathered in Bonn last week, the immediate future of the UN's long-running climate change negotiations will be decided in the last preparatory meeting in Tianjin, China in October, where a negotiating text should be drafted before the summit in Cancun, Mexico ...
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08-10-10
Bringin' Sexy Back to Shopping, Saving, & Social Responsibility
The first hip, mainstream e-commerce site exclusively for social entrepreneurs has finally arrived! Introducing Roozt.com, a Gen Y-centered "deal-of-the-day" platform that is ratcheting up the immensely popular daily deal model...
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08-10-10
Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) Standardizes National Fundraising Programs on Cloud Computing with Salesforce.com
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, today announced Susan G. Komen ...
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08-10-10
Merck Partners With Sesame Workshop on National Program to Encourage Healthy Eating Habits in Families with a Limited Budget
Merck, a global healthcare leader working to help the world to be well, and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, are partnering to develop Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget, a bilingual education outreach pro...
