We're excited to welcome British author and green marketing guru John Grant back to the top of our reading list.

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"Going green" may be turning into a tired refrain for those that have been working hard to decrease their environmental footprint for years. To corporate America, however, the phrase has just as much vibrancy as ever.

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The viral video phenomenon The Story of Stuff has made a big impact on audiences worldwide. Since its release in 2007, it's been viewed over 10 million times, showing we're as fascinated by learning about our Stuff as we are with the items themselves.

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We've written about the phenomenon of outsourced carbon emissions a number of times, with the example of perhaps up to one third of China's emissions coming from manufacturing goods destined for consumption abroad being most prominent.

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You can't buy happiness. Or can you? One new study shows that you actually can - but it doesn't come in the form of things. It comes in the form of buying experiences.

TerraCycle's goal is singular: To solve the problem of waste. We have not taken positions on the products that we collect, similar to how recycling companies accept products of any brand that fit their capacity to recycle.

But here's where it gets interesting—We've been approached by a tobacco company to collect and turn cigarette butts into new eco-friendly products. What do you think?

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A new survey of Climate Registry members shows that over 80% of their 400 member companies are planning on reducing their carbon emissions regardless of any government regulation.

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Coming back from the Greener Gadgets conference late last week, one of the topics mentioned - which it was bound to be brought up at some point - is how it is possible to have a green gadget at all. Electronics are inherently an environmentally messy issue, from the mining of materials to the energy use to the toxic e-waste generated when they're discarded.

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Which company would you bestow the honor of 'Most Innovative' upon for its performance in 2009? Would it be a mammoth like Google, for continued innovation and investment in technologies of the future like clean energy and smart grids? Would it be a decades old entertainment company like Disney?

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We talk a lot about the growing economic importance of the clean energy sector, the employment opportunities it will provide, etc--hell, so does pretty much everyone these days.