AZ Snowbowl Fails on Environmental Scorecard
Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort tops this year’s Ski Area Environmental Scorecard, receiving 93 percent of possible points and getting an A grade, while Arizona Snowbowl’s comes in last place, scoring...
View ArticleDriving Operational Excellence Through Sustainable Asset Management
Join Aberdeen, IHS and Environmental Leader for a sustainable asset management webinar on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST. The business case for investment in sustainability...
View ArticleHow to Make Trustworthy Environmental Claims
The ISO has outlined how its standards help manufacturers and consumer representatives ensure that environmental claims can be trusted. The organization’s free brochure, Environmental labels and...
View ArticleMore than 3.7 Million Sustainable Water Jobs by 2020, Pacific Predicts
Investing in water efficiency and re-use projects will address growing problems associated with drought, flooding and contamination, and create thousands of jobs in a wide range of professions by 2020,...
View ArticleAsetek Participates in DoD Program, Opens Data Center Cooling Demo
The Department of Defense has selected Asetek’s ISAC (Inside Server Air Conditioning) liquid-cooling product to participate in its Transformative Reductions in Operational Energy Consumption (TROPEC)...
View ArticleContract Wins: Cadmus, SAIC, CO2 Solutions
The Cadmus Group has won its third consecutive five-year contract to work with the EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW). Under this contract, the consultancy will work with OWOW to...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Aircraft CO2, Globally Harmonized System, LEDs
The International Civil Aviation Organization’s Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection reached the second milestone in the development of a carbon dioxide standard for new aircraft, by agreeing...
View ArticleWho Should Share the Responsibility for Sustainability?
About two years ago, in December 2010, I addressed the different changes in our collective thinking that might usher in a sustainable world. It was argued that this depended to a great extent on folks...
View ArticleGreen Mountain Coffee to Fund Biochar Farming Project
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is helping to fund nonprofit Radio Lifeline’s Black Earth Project, an initiative that uses biochar to help Rwandan farmers mitigate the effects of climate change. Biochar...
View ArticleChicago Challenges Offices to Go Green
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel has launched round three of the Chicago Green Office Challenge. The Green Office Challenge is a competition among local businesses to reduce energy, water, and waste while...
View ArticleEnvironmental Executive Moves: Newmont Mining, EBI, Barnes Group, McGuireWoods
Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. WesTech: The process equipment manufacturer has appointed Les Uhlmeyer (pictured) as head of its new municipal...
View ArticleMitsubishi Technology Cuts Train Energy Use 5%
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed technology that reduces total railway energy consumption by up to five percent through efficient use of regenerative power from trains and optimized...
View ArticleCaesars Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Drop 5%
Caesars Entertainment Corporation reduced its normalized greenhouse gas by 5 percent year-on-year in 2011, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. In 2010, the casino and entertainment...
View ArticleAquatech to Treat Shale Gas Wastewater
Industrial water and wastewater technology company Aquatech has been granted a permit to operate a Pennsylvania facility targeting regional shale gas producers. The facility, located in Tioga County,...
View ArticleCarbon Trust Launches Water Standard
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Sainsbury’s, Sunlight and Branston are the first four organizations to achieve the Carbon Trust’s water reduction standard, launched today. Carbon reduction is no longer enough,...
View ArticleUniversity at Albany Saves $704,000 Per Year With Energy Upgrades
New energy efficiency projects at the University at Albany – SUNY, undertaken in collaboration with the New York Power Authority and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, will...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Arctic Protection, EU ETS Backloading,...
The UNEP Year Book 2013 released this week warns that the rush for Arctic mineral resources prompted by an apparent acceleration in sea ice melt calls for caution and effective governance to avoid...
View ArticleThe Real Cost of NIMBYism
All over the world renewable energy projects are being delayed or stopped entirely due to the NIMBY or “not in my backyard” phenomenon, this is a case that often involves people in communities who...
View ArticleWHO, UNEP: Synthetic Chemicals Partly to Blame for Health Problems
Synthetic chemicals, untested for their disruptive effects on the hormone system, are likely at least partly to blame for a global increase in birth deformities, cancers and psychiatric diseases, but...
View ArticlePNC Emissions Resolution to Stay, SEC Says
A shareholder resolution proposing that PNC Financial assess the greenhouse gas emissions in its lending portfolio as well as its exposure to climate change risk must remain on the proxy ballot,...
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