Guide Helps Companies Report Climate Policy Positions
Guidelines released today can help companies manage and report their direct and indirect influences on climate policy, according to the UN Global Compact. The UN Global Compact developed the Guide to...
View ArticleCleaning Industry Benefits from Color Coding
Many facilities are now implementing a number of programs to help reduce the amount of energy, water, fuel, and other resources that they use. If structural, mechanical, or similar changes must be made...
View ArticleLas Vegas Deploys BuildingIQ’s Energy Management System
The City of Las Vegas will be the first city to deploy BuildingIQ’s cloud-based energy management system broadly. The deployment is part of utility NV Energy’s mPowered program. By utilizing...
View ArticleCovanta Tartech Recycles Metals from Ash Monofill
Covanta Tartech has begun operating a metals recovery and recycling system at an ash monofill located in Peabody, Mass., and says it expects to recover thousands of tons of metal that has been...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Renewable Fuel Standard, Japan Slashes GHG Target
The EPA is likely to reveal the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard mandates today, Reuters reports. Agency officials have told industry representatives that the EPA may raise quotas above the level contained...
View ArticlePlug Power Fuel Cells to Power Refrigeration Units
Plug Power has received $500,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to evaluate replacing diesel generators with hydrogen fuel cells for powering transport...
View ArticleCarbon Markets ‘Toolbox’ Could Create Global Standards
Developed countries are considering Poland’s proposal for a carbon markets “toolbox” that would help nations set common standards and accounting rules to unify the world’s cap-and-trade systems. The...
View ArticleSustainability Business Success Hinges on CEO Mindset Change
Sustainable business initiatives will fail unless business leaders change their mindset to see business, civil society and nature as “deeply and existentially” interconnected, according to a Harvard...
View ArticleTool Measures Building Materials’ Environmental Impact
Architecture firm KieranTimberlake has launched a software application that allows designers to measure the environmental impact of building materials directly in a Revit model. The new tool, Tally,...
View ArticleCourt Upholds California Carbon Auctions
A Superior Court judge has rejected a legal challenge to California’s carbon auctions, a key piece of the state’s cap-and-trade program. The California Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Legal Foundation,...
View ArticleGE Aviation Breaks Ground on $126 Million Facility
General Electric Aviation has broken ground on a $126 million facility in North Carolina to develop new technology and materials to reduce emissions and make GE jet engines more efficient. North...
View ArticleBioMason Wins Top Cradle to Cradle Products Challenge Prize
BioMason won the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Challenge for manufacturing its brick products, which have a lower emissions profile because they are grown instead of fired. BioMason uses...
View ArticleXeros Joins Sustainable Apparel Coalition
Xeros has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), an alliance formed to improve supply chain sustainability in the apparel and footwear industries. The coalition includes more than 100 leading...
View ArticleContract Wins: WCS, Waste Management, Alter NRG, BioteQ, Johnson Controls
The Department of Energy has awarded a task order in support of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Legacy Waste Project to Waste Control Specialists of Andrews, Texas. Under the $2,225,140 contract,...
View ArticleWhy B Corp Certification Matters
Companies can attract younger workers by seeking — or touting — B Corp status, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since 2007, B Lab, the nonprofit that awards companies with a B Corp logo based on their...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: AZ Solar Ruling, GMO Veto Override, China’s...
The Arizona Corporation Commission has agreed, 3-2, to preserve the state’s net metering system for distributed solar power but to levy a 70 cents per kW charge to help compensate utilities. That is...
View ArticleSustainable Supply Chain Winners Announced
IHS, Patagonia and Ryder are among the companies that have made sustainability a core part of their supply chain strategy, according to Supply & Demand Chain Executive. The magazine has announced...
View ArticlePatent Trolls Threaten Green Innovation
Patent trolls are threatening sustainable innovation and products, The Guardian reports. Small firms are especially at risk, the newspaper says, because their limited budgets may prevent them from...
View ArticleCoke, Ford Fuel Sustainable Design
Coca-Cola and Ford have partnered to use plant-based material as part of the interior fabric on a Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid research vehicle. The fabric, made from Coke’s PlantBottle Technology...
View ArticleCarbon Market Hopes Dashed in Warsaw
UN talks on setting up new carbon markets, and creating global standards for such markets, have been postponed until June 2014. The development at the UN climate conference in Warsaw dashes hopes in...
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