This brochure offers a guide to the objectives and benefits of the Eco-Patent Commons, a non-profit environmental information-sharing project created by IBM, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, and a growing number of environmentally minded companies.

A coalition of IT industry groups is seeking a LEED standard for datacenters with help from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which has developed a draft for performance criteria.

This fact sheet is intended to help institutions easily adopt a purchasing program for printers, copiers and fax machines that accounts for social and environmental concerns.

The ISSA, the leading trade association for the cleaning industry, provides a short online video, an FAQ list, a copy of the standard and other free tools and resources about the guidelines.

Two tools on the newly launched Best Places to MeetGreen site of Meeting Strategies Worldwide can help planners select meeting sites based on the eco-friendliness of prospective locations and the estimated carbon emissions resulting from air travel.

Expert marketing strategists share their slideshow about building credible brands and strong foundations for eco-friendly businesses from their panel at the 2008 West Coast Green Conference.

The Green Building Underwriting Standard and the Capital Markets Partnership Green Value Score comprise a straightforward, easy-to-implement tool allowing lenders, private equity investors, developers and real estate owners the ability to rate an asset's "greenness" at the time of financing or acquisition.

Protecting the health of school-age children and other sensitive and vulnerable populations is a key focus of the updated version of the Green Seal Environmental Standard for Industrial and Institutional Cleaners.

The California Academy of Sciences, which reopened September 27, 2008, in its new quarters in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, is a showcase for green architecture and design.

Pulpwatch.org provides an interactive map of pulp and paper mills, rating them on their environmental and social performance.

San Francisco's green building standards were signed into law on August 4, 2008.

The California Building Standards Commission adopted the nation's first statewide green building code for new construction.

This online tool from Green Mountain Energy allows businesses to calculate the number of RECs required to meet the Green Power LEED certification standard for the four primary LEED certification types.