Volvo Tests Electric Roads
The Volvo Group is testing a program to supply electric power to trucks and buses via power lines built into the surface of the road, thus eliminating the need for large in-vehicle batteries. While...
View ArticleWRI, CDP Streamline Water Risk Tools
The World Resources Institute has aligned its Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas with the Carbon Disclosure Project’s 2013 Water Disclosure Questionnaire in a bid to improve business’ measurement and reporting...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Barrick $16m Fine, Edison ‘Misled Regulators’
Southern California Edison willfully misled the public and regulators to avoid a full safety review of its redesigned San Onofre nuclear power plant in California, according to Sen. Barbara Boxer...
View ArticleAlcoa Wastewater System ‘Saves More Than $7m Annually’
Alcoa and the Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) have completed an engineered wetlands wastewater management system in Saudi Arabia that the companies say will reduce water demand by about 2...
View ArticleCDP, Pure Strategies Help Firms Cut Climate Risks
Pure Strategies has partnered with the Carbon Disclosure Partnership in a move that the organizations say will help companies that disclose emissions to CDP reduce climate risks. Pure Strategies...
View ArticleREI Sustainability Report: Sales Up 8%, CO2 Down 7%
REI cut its absolute carbon emissions by 7.6 percent last year – to 111,982 tons, from 121,201 in 2011– even as it grew sales by 7.4 percent, according to the company’s 2012 stewardship report....
View ArticleWalmart Pleads Guilty in Hazardous Waste Case
Walmart agreed to pay about $82 million yesterday after pleading guilty to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally handling and disposing of hazardous waste at its retail stores across...
View ArticleApple Hires Former EPA Chief Lisa Jackson
Apple has hired former US EPA chief Lisa Jackson to head up the tech company’s environmental efforts. CEO Tim Cook made the announcement yesterday in an interview with All Things D co-executive editors...
View ArticleRecycling in America: What’s Missing?
While recycling in the US continues to grow, one only has to look at Europe to appreciate how much further this country needs to go. The breadth of materials that are collected and recycled in Europe,...
View ArticleGeneral Mills Reduces Solid Waste, Diverts 84% from Landfills
General Mills reduced solid waste generated by about 17,000 metric tons in 2012, according to its 2013 Global Responsibility Report. The company also diverted approximately 84 percent of waste from...
View ArticleTesco Announces Goal to Reduce Food Waste Globally
Tesco plc has laid out new business strategies, ambitions and plans in three key areas, including a goal “to lead in reducing food waste globally.” Around one third of the world’s food is never eaten...
View Article80 Kansas City Buildings Install Solar
Brightergy Solar Solutions and Kansas City Power & Light will team up to install solar panels on 80 buildings by the end of this year, as part of Kansas City’s plans to go solar, the Kansas City...
View ArticleWhy Saving Nature is the ‘Smartest Business Investment’
The New York Times’ Andrew Revkin talks with Mark Tercek, the president of The Nature Conservancy and co-author of “Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature,” about the...
View ArticleNanotech ‘Can Improve Li-ion Battery Performance’
Cathode material substitution, solvent-less electrode processing and recycling metals from batteries can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other negative environmental effects from manufacturing...
View ArticleBall Ups Energy Efficiency, Cuts GHGs
Ball Corporation has reduced its Climate Intensity Index (CII) by 4.8 percent, compared to a 2010 baseline, moving the company closer toward its 2015 greenhouse gas emission reduction goal of 10...
View ArticleSteps Towards Enhancing the Sustainability of Packaging
Sustainable packaging encompasses multiple initiatives, including producing effective solutions with minimum resources, protecting the product, transport efficiency and effective end of life...
View ArticleFood Companies’ GMO-Free Path Still Hard
Food companies are finding it hard to replace genetically modified ingredients with conventional ones, reports the New York Times. At least one house in the Connecticut, Vermont and Maine legislatures...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: FTC Forestry Complaint, Grocery Stewardship,...
Environmental group ForestEthics filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the agency to investigate the Sustainable Forestry Initiative under the terms of the FTC Green Guides....
View ArticleDisney, BASF Join Sustainable Brands’ Group; Ceres, WRI Join Growing Blue
Several companies and sustainability organizations have joined forces this week in efforts to promote environmental management and economic development. The World Resources Institute and Ceres have...
View ArticleFord Fusion Uses Recycled-Materials Fabrics
Ford Fusion is the first global vehicle program to use seat fabric made from recycled material, with the potential to recycle enough plastic bottles and post-industrial waste to make 1.5 million yards...
View Article