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Last week Matt alerted us when the U.S. Renewable Energy Tax Incentive Extension was "signed Into law."

In Brief, What’s Been Approved
Wind power tax credits have been extended for one year; other types of renewable energy such as small-scale hydro or tidal power have been extended for two years. The bigger news is that solar tax credits for businesses and residential installations have been extended for eight years. The entire package amounts to $18 billio...

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Source: TreeHugger

Corporate sustainability -- no longer just the latest collection
of business buzzwords -- now is a required feature in the mission
statement, annual report, and work-force makeup of many companies. In fact, corporate sustainability is becoming more and more important in the business community -- now, you can even track the performances of leading sustainable-driven companies via the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, while the Greenhouse Gas Protocol monitors and measures corporate greenhouse gas emissions.

Corporate sustainability -- no longer just the latest collection
of business buzzwords -- now is a required feature in the mission
statement, annual report, and work-force makeup of many companies. In fact, corporate sustainability is becoming more and more important in the business community -- now, you can even track the performances of leading sustainable-driven companies via the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, while the Greenhouse Gas Protocol monitors and measures corporate greenhouse gas emissions.

Americans have come to expect environmentally conscious materials and processes in virtually every aspect of their lives. We now work “green” and vacation “green,” and who would have believed that driving a car could be done in an environmentally friendly way?

Rewind the clock to September 2005, and you would see that the term "sustainable growth" carried a very different meaning than it does today. Many businesses struggled with how to incorporate sustainability into their operations. Further, businesses were not engaging each other to share best practices and learn from each other. To address this problem, Business Roundtable launched S.E.E. Change (Society, Environment, Economy).