By SkySite Property staff

OfficeMax now will offer 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper for customers making self-serve copies at in-store print and document services, the office supply chain announced.

Customers can upgrade from 30 percent to 100 percent post-consumer paper for free for a limited time. The store’s copy machines have "Think in Green" stickers to encourage customers to take advantage of the offer.

By SkySite Property staff

The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer, is launching a national in-store recycling program for consumer compact fluorescent light bulbs.  
Customers can bring in any expired, unbroken CFL bulbs and give them to store associates at all Home Depot stores. An environmental management company will then package, transport and recycle the bulbs to maximize safety and environmental compliance.

By Skysite Property staff 

Environmental Market Solutions, Inc., an environmental and green building consulting company, aided in the creation of the first commercial office building in China to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED gold certification. 

By SkySite Property staff

The soaring temperatures of summer have arrived, and the Alliance for Retail Markets—a leading advocacy group for retail electric competition in Texas—wants Americans to get the most out of their electricity usage this summer.

The average cost of electricity has gone up nearly 25 percent nationwide since 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration. The typical U.S. family spends more than $1,900 a year on energy bills, a large portion of which is wasted, the Environmental Protection Agency reported.

You can easily conduct a home energy audit yourself. With a simple but diligent walk-through, you can spot many problems in any type of house. When auditing your home, keep a checklist of areas you have inspected and problems you found. This list will help you prioritize your energy efficiency upgrades.

Locating Air Leaks

Chicago Tribune: Oct. 7, 2007
By Jeanette Almada, Special to the Tribune

Organic Light-Emitting Diode lighting is one of the hottest ideas for green lighting, and GE has just demonstrated that they can produce OLED lighting panels like a newspaper, printed on a continuous roll. (you can read their official announcement here .

The Pittsburgh Business Times ran this short mention of a Borders Bookstore getting LEED Gold Certification for Core and Shell. According to the press release, the building won for the following reasons:

The Guardian and the Independent are buzzing about the affordable Zero-Energy Home built by ZEDfactory , a British architectural firm.

IBM introduced a new line of products at the National Retail Federation Conference in New York last month, for everything from POS (point of sale) terminals to blade servers.