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&lt;p&gt;Last November, this blog noted that Nixon Peabody was the first major law firm to appoint a &amp;#8220;chief sustainability officer.&amp;#8221; Since then, as the &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;New Jersey Law Journal&lt;/i&gt; mixed metaphorically observed, &amp;#8220;The greening of &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To wit:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The American Bar Association has launched a slew of green initiatives, including: ABA-EPA Law Office Climate Challenge Waste Wise (reduction of paper use in the office); Green Power Partnership (the purchase of energy from renewable sources); Energy Star Programs&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(encourages&amp;nbsp;10% energy reduction) and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, i.e. &amp;#8220;green buildings&amp;#8221;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for individual law firms, it appears&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA&quot;&gt;&amp;#8212;u&lt;/span&gt;nsurprisingly&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA&quot;&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/span&gt;Northern California is&amp;nbsp;at the vanguard of greener practices.&amp;nbsp; &lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Oakland&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&amp;#8217;s&amp;nbsp; Wendel, Rosen, Black &amp;amp; Dean, was, back in 2003, the first law firm in the country to be certified as a &amp;#8220;green business.&amp;#8221; In addition to a &amp;#8216;Green Biz&amp;#8217; practice group featuring experts in areas such Natural Food Laws and Green Building, the firm has overhauled its own internal practices in order to become more environmentally-friendly:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;MARGIN: 5pt 99pt 5pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The firm switched from 30 percent to 100 percent post-consumer, chlorine-free recycled paper. The change eliminates 40,000 pounds of greenhouse gases that would be created annually, saves 260 mature trees, 24,000 gallons of water and 33,000 kilowatt hours of electricity&amp;#8212;enough power to run 3.4 homes for a year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The greening of Wendel Rosen did experience a couple of setbacks, including a failed attempt to introduce the use of eating utensils made from corn starch&amp;#8212;it turned out they dissolved in hot liquids.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Across the Bay, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fbm.com/&quot; target=&quot;new&quot;&gt;Farella Braun &amp;amp; Martel&lt;/a&gt;was the first law firm to be certified green by the city of &lt;st1:city w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/st1:city&gt; and the second firm tracking air emissions with &lt;st1:state w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;California&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;&#39;s Climate Action Registry. Being &quot;green&quot; is considered one of the firm&#39;s &amp;nbsp;&quot;core values.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; -posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;

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