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GREENBUZZ for September 7, 2004

Taking Care of Business

With Labor Day behind us, GreenBiz.com gets back to work with a new crop of columns. For starters, GreenBiz founder Joel Makower examines a new report that hangs a neat price tag on the value of "environmental literacy" in the U.S. -- $75 billion a year, to be exact. Find out what an eco-literate America might be worth to your company.

Also this week: Case studies, case studies, case studies! Fourteen profiles of emissions-reduction programs, plus energy-saving best practices from the U.S. DOE.

Finally, please consider taking our CSR Reporting Survey. It should take just 5 minutes to fill out. We'll report on the findings later this fall.


Headlines
The Latest News on Business and the Environment

BP, Long Beach Port to Launch Pollution-Reducing Collaboration
The Port of Long Beach and oil company BP have agreed to a collaboration that will allow vessels to shut down their engines, plug into dockside electricity and "cold-iron" while docked at the port.

Pitney Bowes Focuses on Environmentally Friendly Solutions
Pitney Bowes has introduced a new service to help clients manage the flow of their paper documents and lower their document management costs, all while protecting the environment.

Polluting Chinese Companies to Be Denied Stock Market Access
Environment officials in Beijing have warned Chinese managers that if they fail to meet pollution reduction deadlines, they will be banned from raising stock market capital for three years.

Xanterra's Zion Lodge Earns Utah P2 Award
Xanterra Parks & Resorts has received the Outstanding Achievement in Pollution Prevention Award from the State of Utah for its environmental achievements at the Zion Lodge in Zion National Park.

New Manuals to Help Businesses, Government Improve Environmental Performance Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has published two tools to help local governments and small businesses save energy and money by improving their environmental performance.


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Resources and Tools
A Wealth of Hands-On Help


Less Is More: 14 Pioneers in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A collection of in-depth corporate and governmental case studies on emissions reduction.

BestPractices Case Studies
Profiles cost- and energy-saving strategies of industry.

GreenZone
Site offers information on HCFC-free polyiso rigid board roof insulation.
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Update on Carbon Offsets
An informative and well-written backgrounder on the interrelationships of forests, carbon offsets, and climate change.
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Environmental Technologies Program
Helps U.S. companies access EPA research on new environmental technologies that have market potential.

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Columns and Features
Insight and Inspiration from the Experts

Literacy to Save the Earth
What's the value of an environmentally literate America? By Joel Makower

http://www.greenbiz.com/news/columns_third.cfm?NewsID=26312">The Tao of Prius
The 2004 Prius is more than a nice ride. It also tells us what a leading company thinks of the potential -- and limits -- of consumer-driven change for a better world. By Joshua Skov


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