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BiographyTilde Herrera
Tilde Herrera is an associate editor at GreenBiz.com
Features
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Climate change laws are producing a small but growing wave of lawsuits and legal threats to force counties, developers and companies to count and mitigate emissions as part of their plans for large projects.
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Getting your business certified green has many benefits, but as companies are discovering, the simple act of choosing which program opens up a world of complications.
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In a move playing out largely behind the scenes but gaining quick momentum, law firms are using simple and inexpensive tools to evolve from notorious resource hogs (think a half-ton of paper per lawyer, per year) to models of eco-stewardship.
Articles
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The regulations -- deemed the world's strictest -- mean the roughly 2,000 ships that sail into state ports each year must start using low-sulfur fuel in 2009 instead of cheap but dirty bunker fuel.
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The Western Climate Initiative unveiled a draft plan Wednesday for what will become North America's largest carbon cap and trade system set to go into effect in 2012.
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Former Vice President Al Gore called on the U.S. to make an Apollo-like leap to produce all of its electricity from non-fossil fuel sources within a decade to bolster national security, the flailing economy and avoid the worst effects of a warming planet.
Podcast
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Rachel Patterson of San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett law firm offers a snapshot of the year it took her company to become a certified green business.
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Frank Marquardt, author of the Green Careers Insider Guide from Wet Feet publications, joins GreenBiz Radio to discuss the paths people take to landing a job related to the environment or sustainability.
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Attorney David Scott joins GreenBiz Radio to discuss the Green Guide for Lawyers and the ways in which his law firm is making its operations more environmentally friendly.
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