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Get Ready for an Energy Savings Throwdown! Are you ready for an energy savings throwdown? Office Depot, celebrating 25 years as a leading global provider of office supplies and services, and ranked as America's greenest large retailer by Newsweek(R) Magazine, has announced a partnership with ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA to launch the 2011 Green Business Challenge. "On behalf of ICLEI's 600 local government members across the nation, we wish to thank Office Depot for its vital support and commitment to helping businesses embrace environmental sustainability," said Martin J. Chรกvez, Executive Director of ICLEI USA. "We feel that Office Depot, as the greenest large retailer in America, is the ideal partner to expand ICLEI's Green Business Challenge and encourage energy efficiency and promote energy-saving efforts among different sectors of the business community." The Green Business Challenge is a unique program that seeks to engage local property managers and tenants in a friendly competition to save energy, reduce waste and water consumption, procure greener products, and implement other sustainable activities within their companies. The program was initially piloted in 2010 as the City of Chicago "Green Office Challenge" and organized by the Chicago Department of Environment and ICLEI USA. Office Depot was the primary underwriter of the challenge in Chicago and directly supported key aspects of