AB InBev’s Magor Brewery to Save 289 Metric Tons of CO2
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s new warehouse at its Magor Brewery in Wales will eliminate the need for 330,00 kilometers (about 205,000 miles) of truck journeys required to transfer goods between external...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Social Cost of Carbon, GHG Reporting,...
The White House has issued updated values for the social cost of carbon, reflecting “minor technical corrections,” The Hill reports. The changes lower the central estimated value of the SCC in 2015 to...
View ArticleInvestors Lose $38.7M in Carbon Credit Sales Scam
UK regulators have shut down 19 companies selling carbon credits in the past 15 months for cheating investors out of 24 million pounds ($38.7 million). The UK Insolvency Service says more than 1,500...
View ArticleGSA Seeks Green Building Technologies to Test
The US government is seeking green building technologies that have the potential to improve economic and environmental performance in federal buildings. The General Services Administration’s (GSA)...
View ArticleUNEP: Industry Must Cut GHGs at Least 1.5 Gt
Global industry will need to find emissions cuts of 1.5 to 4.6 gigatons of CO2e, as part of wider efforts to keep global temperature rises below 2°C, according to a report from the United Nations...
View ArticleWhy Smart Building Technology Is a ‘No-Brainer’
Pressure to manage costs, risks and energy consumption is pushing commercial building owners and investors to explore how smart building technologies can help a company’s triple bottom line — people,...
View ArticleMateriality Assessment Prior to Reporting: a How-to Primer
Materiality has become something of a buzz word in the sustainability arena in 2013, helped by the increased emphasis placed on “material” issues in the new G4 sustainability reporting guidelines from...
View ArticleSprint Tops Verizon, AT&T in Recycling Smartphones
Sprint recycled or reused smartphones to the tune of 44% of its total 2012 sales; that compares to just 11.5% of total smartphone sales for AT&T. Verizon says it recycles or reuses 28% of all...
View ArticleCoke Recycling Awards Program Expands in Georgia
Coca-Cola is expanding its recycling awards program, this time in conjunction with the Columbus, Georgia, Consolidated Government and Piggly Wiggly. The program, Recycle & Win, is a recycling...
View ArticleBuilding Owner Fights Utility Over Submetering
The Connecticut General Assembly made submetering of multi-unit buildings legal in the state this year, but a conflict has arisen because a utility, United Illuminating, says submetered buildings are...
View ArticleGE, Sasol Develop Water Technology that Provides Biogas
Sasol and General Electric’s GE Power & Water have developed technology that will clean wastewater while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. This water treatment technology,...
View ArticleShop Towels Hold Risk for Factory Workers
US and Canadian manufacturing workers who use laundered shop towels may be inadvertently exposed to lead and other metals, according to a peer-reviewed study by Gradient. The Kimberly-Clark...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Whirlpool, LEED, Green Hospitality
Whirlpool has received certification to AHAM 7003-2013/CSA SPE-7003-13/UL 7003, Sustainability Standard for Household Clothes Washers, for select products. These include the first top-load models...
View ArticleContract Wins: Siemens, GE, Calgon Carbon, Cadmus, Ecolab
AEA Investors has signed an agreement to acquire the municipal, industrial and services water and wastewater treatment operations and assets of Siemens Water Technologies for €640 million ($881...
View ArticleBoston Cuts GHGs by 16%
Boston cut emissions from its municipal government operations by 16 percent from 2011 to 2012, with adjusted emissions falling from 165,202 to 138,841 metric tons of CO2e, according to data just...
View ArticleCeramic Catalytic Filters Can Control Industrial Emissions
New catalytic filter technology can provide flexibility in controlling harmful emissions from industrial facilities, Kevin Moss, business development director for Tri-Mer, writes in an article for...
View ArticleTesla CEO Tapped as UK Government Advisor
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has been tapped by UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to advise the British government on how it can boost the adoption of low-carbon vehicles. In his keynote speech on...
View ArticleGRI Taxonomy Helps Firms Digitally Disclose Sustainability Data
The Global Reporting Initiative today launched the GRI Taxonomy 2013 that has been fully updated for use with G4, the latest version of GRI’s sustainability reporting guidelines. The GRI Taxonomy 2013...
View ArticleComposting for Businesses and Organizations
While the recycling of paper, plastic and glass is common across the country, composting remains the final frontier of recycling, especially in dense East Coast cities. But recent citywide composting...
View ArticleIBM Patents Sustainable Computing for Data Centers
IBM inventors have patented a technique that enables cloud computing data center operators to dynamically redistribute workloads to lower-powered or underutilized systems, thereby minimizing their...
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