To every thing there is a season—and we are in the season of planting. Despite the frost warnings this week, May is the time when many plants take root. And not far behind are the early harvests. There are a number of local farms that provide a variety of seedlings and sprouts, produce, and other products as the growing season [...]

WhiteWave remains committed to initiatives and causes its consumers, employees and partners care about, including sustainability. WhiteWave strongly believes in the power of its business and brands to make meaningful change, and is making strong progress against its sustainability goals: In the U.S., WhiteWave has already met its 2013 greenhouse gas reduction goal of 25 percent over a 2006 baseline, [...]

The Global Reporting Initiative, the organization that develops the most widely used sustainability reporting framework in the world, released an updated version of the guidelines May 22. The guidelines, called the G4 guidelines, provide guidance for organizations to voluntarily report on their environmental, social, and governance performance. The newest version encourages organizations to report only on information that is material [...]

Stream Data Centers, a national data center developer and operator, today announced it has been awarded LEED Gold Certification for its Private Data Center (PDC) facility in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The purpose-built data center was completed in 2012, and it reflects the company’s ongoing commitment to sustainable data center design and development. (Photo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130523/DA19949) The new Private Data Center is Stream’s [...]

The District of Columbia’s Consolidated Forensics Laboratory (CFL) received LEED Platinum Certification this week from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the Department of General Services (DGS) announced today. “The Department of General Services is honored to have received this prestigious certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, and I would like to congratulate our entire design, construction and project team for [...]

The GM China Advanced Technical Center (ATC) in Shanghai has been awarded Silver Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. The LEED certification program is a globally recognized process that uses common standards to define “green buildings.” Its goal is to support the design and construction of buildings that reduce or eliminate [...]

Kaiser Permanente, the Oakland-based healthcare giant, plans to score LEED gold certification for all its new major projects going forward — a move signaling that the green building movement is gaining traction outside of the hot spots like the Bay Area. In San Francisco, achieving LEED certification is about as impressive as getting a driver’s license when you turn 16: [...]

Barack Obama may not have created the 5 million green jobs he pledged during the 2008 campaign. But, by some measures, he isn’t doing badly (or, at least, someone isn’t doing badly, depending on your view of how jobs are made). According to the Ecotech Institute, almost 750,000 green jobs opened up in the first three months of this year. That’s not 5 [...]