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As the retail industry keeps moving toward a recovery, is green design following suit?

There’s a buzz in the air again. Design firms are adding staff. Requests for proposals are coming through. Retail...

Think the recession has spelled the end of the green design movement? These designers and retailers say “think again.”

Five years ago, you couldn’t talk about retail design without hearing buzzwords like “green,” “sustainable” and “energy...

Conversations today are less about looking “green” and more about good design.

When I started planning VMSD’s annual green issue a few months back, I wasn’t quite sure where the conversation...

Using green design, solar power and renewable energy to reduce energy consumption by 25 percent

Whole Foods Market (Austin, Texas) plans to increase its efforts to reduce energy consumption company-wide by 25 percent...

Tim Horton Goes for LEED; Sony focusing on zero footprint

Canadian-based quick-service restaurant chain Tim Hortons has set a goal to reduce packaging by 5 percent across its...

As many as 10 LEED-certified branches planned for 2010

As part of its efforts to go carbon neutral, TD Bank (Cherry Hill, N.J., and Portland, Maine) will unveil a new green...

Latest green effort by British grocery company

U.K.-based grocery retailer Tesco has opened a location that it says is the world’s first “zero-carbon” supermarket....

LEED prototype to hit market in summer 2010

Marriott Intl. Inc. (Bethesda, Md.,) plans to expand its green hotel portfolio over the next five years by introducing a...

Eleven London supermarkets will have electric car charging systems

U.K. grocery chain Sainsbury plans to install electric car charging stations at 11 of its London supermarkets. The...

More than 70 percent of Kohl’s power comes from renewable resources

Kohl`s Department Stores (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) holds the top spot in retail on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

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