How Will Obama’s Plan Affect Business?
Over the next few days, we’ll be unpacking the proposals in Obama’s far-reaching climate plan to discover how they’ll affect energy, environment and sustainability professionals. First, the most widely...
View ArticleDo Markets Punish Pollution Control?
Buying emissions-trading permits is more profitable for companies than reducing actual greenhouse gas emissions, the Network for Business Sustainability reports. Researchers examined 36 publicly traded...
View ArticlePax World Fund Fossil Fuel-Free, Carbon Neutral
Pax World Management, investment adviser to Pax World Funds, has completed a carbon benchmarking analysis of its five largest equity funds, the first phase in its effort to reduce the carbon intensity...
View ArticleSustainability Programs Are Even More Effective through Partnerships
While there is a lot of talk about manufacturer responsibility in product stewardship, retailers—as the middlemen between manufacturers and consumers—are emerging as a powerful force in environmental...
View ArticleChicago to Require Benchmarking in Larger Commercial Buildings
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed an ordinance that would require the city’s largest buildings to benchmark their energy use, and authorize the city to disclose the energy efficiency for these...
View ArticleTrek, REI Join Bike Tube Recycling Network
Trek and REI have partnered with Alchemy Goods to form a nationwide bike tube recycling network with the goal of collecting 1 million bike tubes by the end of 2014. This network includes more than 600...
View ArticleReducing Your Carbon Footprint Benefits You and the Environment
When you accidentally step on a dog’s tail and it yelps, you immediately get off the tail to ease that pain as quickly as possible. The dog’s yelp is its way of telling you that you are hurting it. In...
View ArticleRecyclebank Cuts Emissions 27%
Recycling incentive company Recyclebank has lowered its carbon emissions by 27 percent, from 830 tons in 2011 to 602 tons in 2012, with the help of NativeEnergy, which calculated the company’s...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: Ikea, LA Metro, Honda, Volvo, Boulder Electric Vehicle
Ikea plans to add 24 of Ecotality’s Blink electric vehicle charging stations across eight more locations in the US. Installation should be completed this summer at seven stores in Illinois, Georgia,...
View ArticleHonest Buildings Expands Online Marketplace
Honest Buildings is expanding beyond energy management and becoming more of a marketplace for building owners and contractors to connect. The company late last month secured $5.5 million in Series-A...
View ArticleDid Camden Yards’ Energy Management Game the System?
Enerwise has agreed to pay $1.3 million after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission found that the energy management company directed the Maryland Stadium Authority to artificially inflate the...
View ArticleAxine Chemical-Free Wastewater Treatment Completes Testing
Axine Water Technologies, developers of a chemical-free solution for treating toxic organic pollutants in industrial wastewater, have successfully completed six months of performance testing and...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Feds’ Carbon Cost, Ship Emissions, ‘Sue and...
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) introduced a bill that would force the White House to seek public feedback on its estimate for the social cost of carbon. The administration raised its estimate to $38 per...
View ArticleIndustry Tells EPA ‘Withdraw Sulfur Rules’
The American Petroleum Institute and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers have called upon the EPA to withdraw its proposed Tier 3 rule, which would require lower sulfur content in gasoline....
View ArticleCoca-Cola, Britvic Join Soft Drink Sustainability Roadmap
Half of the UK’s leading soft drink producers and suppliers including Coca-Cola and Britvic have signed onto the Soft Drinks Sustainability Roadmap, a supply chain study that aims to reduce the...
View ArticleData Centers Could Run Out Of Space, Power By 2014
Skyrocketing amounts of data create such constant demands that most executives feel some of their organizations’ data centers will run out of power, cooling, or space by the end of 2014, according to a...
View ArticleBASF, Heritage Plastics Bring Compostable Bioplastic Manufacturing to US
BASF has formed a manufacturing partnership with Heritage Plastics to produce ecovio-certified compostable products in North America. The partnership enables BASF to begin manufacturing its ecovio...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Molasses Spill Probe, Bechtel Faulted
An investigation into a molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor, which was likely Hawaii’s worst-ever marine environmental disaster, has been set back by the federal government shutdown. Officials overseeing...
View ArticlePE International Software Wins G4 Certification Race
Sustainability software company PE International’s SoFi Reporting product is the first to receive certification of G4 content from the Global Reporting Initiative as part of the GRI Certified Software...
View ArticleGlobal Aviation GHG Plan Set for Vote
The UN aviation body will today vote on a plan to curb the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions by adopting a global market-based measure by 2020. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)...
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