Planning California’s Clean Electric Power Future
Over the next several years, California’s power system will undergo major changes. As renewable portfolio standards (RPS) increase, larger quantities of renewable generation resources will be required....
View ArticleMoney in the Trash: Savings through an integrated approach to waste management
Waste management has long been viewed as a necessary expense that has commanded little attention next to larger operational expenses. The waste and recycling industry is at a crossroads of change, and...
View ArticleFleets of Networked Water Heaters Help Utilities Manage the Grid
The US Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent to Sequentric Energy Systems for its variable-capacity, grid-interactive water heating technology. Designed specifically for electric utility energy...
View ArticleUnilever Pledges 100% Traceable Palm Oil by End of 2014
Unilever has pledged that by the end of 2014, all of the palm oil the company buys globally will be traceable to known sources. Unilever is one of the world’s major buyers of palm oil for use in...
View ArticleLux: Biofuel Could Compete with Petrol on Price
Lower biofuel feedstock prices could drive down the price of fermentable cellulosic sugar allowing bio-based chemicals and biofuels to be made from more plentiful non-food sources, helping them better...
View ArticleSiemens Introduces CoMag for Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment
Siemens Water Technologies magnetite ballasted CoMag System, which is already helping municipalities to increase water and wastewater treatment plant clarification performance in confined footprints,...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: IPCC Errors, Ethanol Promises, EPA at...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has raised certain estimates of past greenhouse gas emissions, and lowered others, in revisions to its September report. But the IPCC said the errors did...
View ArticleLEED Green Building Projects Span 10.6 Billion Square Feet
About 60,000 LEED green building projects across the globe span 10.6 billion square feet, according to a US Green Building Council (USGBC) report. LEED in Motion: Places and Policies says Canada leads...
View ArticleCarbon Pricing Buoyed by China – and US?
The proportion of global emissions subject to carbon pricing is projected to grow from about 8 percent last year to about 33 percent in 2035, according to the International Energy Agency’s 2013 World...
View ArticleWhole Foods Pilots EOS Climate’s Refrigerant Asset System
(An earlier version of this story pointed to Whirlpool as a pilot partner in this program. EOS Climate executive Joe Madden says that the email claiming that partnership was an error in communication...
View ArticleIntegrating Sustainability ‘Biggest Challenge for Business’
Only one in five companies has fully integrated sustainability into business, according to a survey of corporate sustainability executives by nonprofit business network BSR and research consultancy...
View ArticleThe Secret to Getting a Green Premium
There has been a lot of talk lately about whether or not customers are willing to pay more for green products. And just like any kind of market research, you can usually find a study to support...
View ArticleBenefits of Paperless Manufacturing
Paperless manufacturing can improve a company’s business operations through higher quality, greater responsiveness to change and less waste, according to Tadeusz Dyduch senior product manager at...
View ArticleHelping Smaller Buildings Retrocommission
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing a “Retrocommissioning Sensor Suitcase” to help small and medium sized buildings reap the...
View ArticleLimited Fast Charging Units Hurt BEV Sales
Until the availability of public fast charging infrastructure is widespread, the appeal of mid-range battery electric vehicles like the Nissan Leaf will be limited, according to an inaugural report...
View ArticlePatagonia to Use 100% Traceable Down
Patagonia will use 100 percent traceable down across its entire collection of down-insulated products starting in the Fall 2014 season, the outdoor apparel company says. Patagonia Traceable Down is...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: ASTM 1527, NSF Building Products, LEED
ASTM has issued revised standard ASTM E1527-13, which governs phase I environmental site assessments. As discussed in our recent EL Analysts issue, the EPA uses the ASTM standard to determine whether...
View ArticleGE, CSX Pilot LNG Trains; Clean Energy Fuels UPS Fleet
GE Transportation and CSX have agreed to explore Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) technology for locomotives beginning with a pilot program in 2014. Using LNG to fuel trains cuts emissions and increases...
View ArticleSustainability Factors into Deal Making, PwC Says
More than two-thirds of executives say they plan to evaluate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in future deals, according to a poll of more than 300 professionals conducted by...
View ArticleLEED v4: Healthcare Sector May Struggle
The healthcare industry – which lags behind many other sectors in LEED certifications – will take some time to adjust to the requirements of the soon-to-launch LEED v4 standard, Healthcare Design...
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