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Strategic Oxygen and Cohn & Wolf have released a study that ranks which companies IT buyers view as the greenest. Over 3,500 CIOs, CXO, IT Managers and other decision makers from 11 countries were surveyed about 26 different brands to find out what businesses think about green IT products and marketing. Turns out, a company that is frequently discussed on TreeHugger made the top of the list as the most eco-friendly computer manufacturer.

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It’s pretty easy to find greenies on social network sites like Facebook and Twitter, but if you want a community that is specifically geared towards getting green-minded people together, you might want to check out the new website CoolTribe.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome has a post on Triple Pundit about the link between green building and job creation.

Read the full story at MSNBC.

Have you looked out your window and felt disgusted with this late winter, early spring icky phase? What does your garden/lawn look like? If you are looking for inspiration, there is still time to head to the Flower and Garden Show at Navy Pier. There, you will find many ideas including those in the green category.

Make sure to stop by the Chicago Botanic Garden’s “Hope for a Healing Planet” display. The designer, Carrie Meade of Mariani Landscape, gave us some green gardening tips, “A big thing is the plants you pick. Locally grown plants are easier on the environment because you don’t have transportation/fumes and all that.”

Read the full post at Civil Eats.

Brian Hartman of ABC News has a report today that confirms that there will be a veggie garden on the White House Lawn.

Mr. Hartman seems to have sent his fellow ABC reporters Sunlen Miller and Ann Compton, who cover insider White House activity, literally into the field to track down a Park Service employee to dish on the dirt project, and they were very successful. A NPS worker who requested anonymity told the two reporters that a veggie garden will be planted on the South Lawn, near the fountain, out of the sight-line of the White House. The anonymous source assured Ms. Compton and Ms. Miller that the White House Residence Staff will be handling all details of the garden, rather than Park Service workers, who oversee the rest of the sixteen-acre campus. This indicates that First Lady Michelle Obama will be overseeing the project, because she’s “the decider” for the Residence Staff.

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Rockwell Automation has released a new white paper that explores how world class brands, The Boeing Company, Coca-Cola and General Mills, use sustainable production practices to help manage today’s economic challenges. The paper, Perspectives on Sustainable Production: Delivering Economic Value and Serving Greater Good, features viewpoints from sustainability executives at Rockwell Automation and its customers, all of whom consider sustainable production practices a necessity during the current economic downturn.