DOE Announces $246m for Renewables, EVs
The Department of Energy has announced $245.9 million in loan guarantees and grants for a variety of renewable energy and electric vehicle projects. Energy secretary Steven Chu (pictured) announced $43...
View ArticleEnergy Management Tech Briefing: Sprint, Proliphix, SmartLabs, Tendril,...
Sprint has announced collaborations with Proliphix and SmartLabs aimed at making energy management tools easy for businesses to install. The Proliphix IMT-550 Internet Managed Thermostat is now...
View ArticleCosts Prohibiting EV Adoption in Fleets, Survey Says
Two out of five financial directors would not pay a financial premium to introduce hybrid or electric vehicles into their fleet, according to a survey. Lex Autolease, which leases 300,000 vehicles to...
View ArticlePolicy and Enforcement Briefing: Unspent Stimulus, Chorus of Criticism over...
About one-third of the money authorized for an energy efficiency program in the 2009 economic stimulus bill has not yet been spent despite promises to immediately create green jobs, a government audit...
View ArticleUnilever UK Achieves Zero Landfill Status
Consumer products brand Unilever has become a “zero to landfill” manufacturer in its U.K. operations, the company has announced. The company now recycles 97 percent of its waste through its waste...
View ArticleFBI Raids Offices of Bankrupt Solar Company
FBI agents searched the offices of recently-bankrupt solar company Solyndra on Thursday, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The raid is believed to be in connection with Solyndra’s $535 million loan...
View ArticleData Revealed: Google Uses More Power than Salt Lake City
Google has broken its silence on energy consumption, announcing that it consumed 2,259,998 MWh in 2010. In a new section on the Google Green site, called “The Big Picture,” Google also said that it...
View ArticleToyota Trials Li-Ion Batteries at Sainsbury’s Distribution Center
British grocery chain Sainsbury’s and Toyota Material Handling UK are working together to trial lithium ion battery technology. The two companies will be testing applications of the battery technology...
View ArticleEnvironmental & Energy Executive Moves: PPG, Mainstream, AECOM, PwC, Oracle,...
PPG Industries: The maker of paints, coatings, chemicals and specialty materials appointed Diane Kappas (pictured, far left) vice president of environment, health and safety. Kappas is business...
View ArticleROI of 11-12% Predicted for Commercial Renewables
Businesses that invest in renewable energy could make average returns of 11 to 12 percent, with the potential for returns in excess of 20 percent, according to research by U.K. low-carbon advocacy...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: CA Tweaks Environmental Reviews; Hecla...
A group of environmentalists has launched a campaign urging EPA administrator Lisa Jackson not to resign, after President Obama ordered the agency to scrap a two-year-old proposal to tighten national...
View ArticleSustainability Practitioner, Subject-matter Expert or Gunslinger?
Recently I was drinking an organic fair-trade soy latte while chatting with a long-time sustainability consulting colleague of mine who asked me what I thought about the sustainability consulting shops...
View ArticleFirst Steps to Creating a Corporate Sustainability Report
Half of the Fortune 100 produced a CSR report last year, and this trend will continue to grow with reporting likely to become mandatory in the coming years. Businesses that aren’t currently creating a...
View ArticleCup Recycling Takes Stage at Starbucks’ 2011 Cup Summit
Video from Starbucks’ 2011 Cup Summit in Boston. The first panel took place inn 2008, when Starbucks engaged the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Society for Organizational Learning to...
View ArticleBlackout May Have Caused Millions in Losses
The blackout that cut off power to four million Californian and Mexican customers on Thursday has had wide-ranging effects on businesses, with up to $118 million in losses, according to news reports. A...
View ArticleGoogle Invests in Hog-Waste Energy; Diaper Recycling Plant Opens
Google has invested in a pilot project by Duke University and Duke Energy that converts waste from a pig farm into usable energy. The system, on a hog finishing facility 25 miles west of Winston-Salem,...
View ArticleIntegrated Reporting Framework Proposed
Integrated reporting holds the prospect of removing “clutter” that obscures important information in company reports, according to a discussion paper released by the International Integrated Reporting...
View ArticlePressure from ‘Below’ May Be Catalyst for Sustainability
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, and satirist (1694 – 1778) Left to its own devices, the Earth is a sustainable system....
View ArticleCompliance & Standards Briefing: RoHS Lead Exemption, WEEE Compromise, LEED...
The European Union on Monday added a new exemption for lead to the RoHS directive on toxic substances in electronic goods, ENDS Europe reported. The new exemption appeared in the RoHS official journal...
View ArticleEnergy Management Tech Briefing: University of Toledo, Honeywell, Encelium
The University of Toledo (pictured), economic development program Ohio Third Frontier and GEM Inc. are partnering to design, develop and commercialize a new power system that they hope will drastically...
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