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Alcoa's Pittsburgh Corporate Center -- Green Before Green Was Cool
Built in 1998, Alcoa's aluminum-and-glass Corporate Center on Pittsburgh's North Shore riverfront used many design ideas that are now standards in the Green Building portfolio. This video tour of the building discusses those ideas and outlines Alcoa's plan to have the Corporate Center LEED certified.
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2008-11-14
Alcoa Chairman Alain Belda Honored By Asia Society for Environmental Leadership
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2008-09-29
Alcoa Named to Climate Disclosure Leadership Index for Sixth Consecutive Year; Commended on Quality of Climate Change Disclosure Practice
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2008-09-18
Alcoa and Pew Center on Global Climate Change Launch Make an Impact Climate Change Program
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2008-09-11
Alcoa Plays Part in Nobel Peace Prize on Climate Change
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2008-07-15
Alcoa Reaches New Renewable Power Deal for Wenatchee, WA Smelter
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2008-07-01
Alcoa and Landsvirkjun announce collaboration on deep drilling at Krafla
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The growing standard of living in newly developed and heavily populated parts of the world is driving a relentless need for new infrastructure and consumer goods. At the same time the human footprint on the planet has a far greater impact on fragile ecosystems than ever before.

Alcoa is meeting the challenge with a core commitment to operating sustainably in the communities and ecosystems in which we do business. At the same time, we're delivering new ideas and solutions that will help build a healthier and more sustainable future both for the planet and its people.

Solutions that help buildings, cars, airplanes, trucks and trains get more performance from less fuel. Solutions that help other industries operate more efficiently and sustainably. Solutions that recycle into new products, over and over again.

Our leadership in aluminum positions us uniquely to deliver faster, stronger, lighter and more sustainable solutions to meet today's challenges and to deliver the promise of tomorrow.

News Highlights

Falcons on the nest in Australia
Sheila and Havoc, Alcoa Australia's resident pair of peregrine falcons, are taking parental turns on a nest of three precious eggs. You can follow their progress through the Australian spring live via web cam.
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Poços de Caldas is first
Alcoa Unit to install ecoroof

The Refinery of Poços de Caldas
is the first Alcoa Unit to have a Green Roof – an ecological roof that provides thermal and
acoustic comfort with much
lower energy costs.

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Off to Belize
Davenport Alcoan Corey Ortiz talks about why he volunteered to be an Alcoa Earthwatch fellow. (Video clip courtesy WQAD-TV).
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Alcoa Signs Agreement to Support Geothermal Power Research Project in Iceland
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Aluminum Exhibit in China
February 7, 2008 - Alcoa Shanghai, Alcoa Kunshan, Alcoa Electrical and Electronic Solutions Shanghai, and Alcoa Shanghai office are sponsoring the Aluminum Gallery at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. The traveling exhibit, funded by Alcoa Foundation, educates children on sustainable growth of aluminum and the environmental benefits of recycling. This exhibit was previously in Bejing in 2007;
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