BP Releases $627 Million Plan for Oil Spill Restoration
Toxic chemicals associated with the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be linked to continued problems growing oysters in Louisiana waters as well as the deaths of hundreds of bottlenosed dolphins and...
View ArticlePlastic Foam Company: ‘Yes, It’s Recyclable’
One of the largest manufacturers of plastic-foam food containers is trying to convince New York City that the post-consumer material can be recycled. Dart Container Corporation is fighting the city’s...
View ArticleIIRC Publishes Integrated Reporting Framework
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has released its Integrated Reporting (IR) Framework, intended to accelerate the adoption of integrated reporting worldwide. The IR framework...
View ArticleOnly 10% of Firms Link CR Performance to Compensation
Even though 75 percent of the world’s 250 largest companies acknowledge that environmental and social “megaforces” such as resource scarcity and climate put their businesses at risk, only 10 percent...
View ArticleSustainability Mythbusters: Debunking the Sustainability Myths
Welcome to the Sustainability Mythbusters series presented by Schneider Electric. In this six-part series, Schneider Electric’s Global Sustainability Services team explores common misconceptions...
View ArticleBallast Water Treatment Market to Hit $3.14B in Revenues by 2023
Revenues for the global ballast water treatment system market will skyrocket from $466.6 million in 2013 to $3.14 billion by 2023 at a compound annual growth rate of 21 percent, as new regulations...
View ArticleProterro Patents Biosynthetic Sugar-Making Process
Proterro, a biofeedstock company that makes sugar instead of extracting it from crops, has patented its biosynthetic sugar-making process. The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent No....
View ArticleSwire Coca-Cola Shrinks Water Footprint
Swire Coca-Cola’s, the third largest independent bottler in the US, has implemented several water management initiatives as part of its ongoing effort to return to nature an amount of water equivalent...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: Supervalu, Ikea, Volvo, Toyota
Grocery chain Supervalu has purchased 35 Class 8 Volvo trucks that operate on compressed natural gas. To power the new trucks, Trillium CNG built and will operate a fast-fill CNG station at Supervau’s...
View ArticleXylem, Verizon Team Up on Oyster Restoration
Xylem’s YSI Integrated Systems and Services (ISS), Verizon and the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School have teamed up on a long-term oyster restoration project called the Billion Oyster Project. The...
View ArticleGE, Eli Lilly, Celgene Partner with NYC, Launch Biotech Fund
The New York City Economic Development Corporation has partnered with Celgene, GE Ventures and Eli Lilly to create a biotech fund called the Life Sciences Funding Initiative. The city will put in $50...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Green Globes, SCS and LEED, Recycled Asphalt
ECD Energy and Environment Canada has released a new version of Green Globes for New Construction Canada, based largely on a Canadian adaptation of ANSI/GBI 01-2010 – Green Building Assessment Protocol...
View ArticleLEED v4 ‘Will Shorten Project Time’
The US Green Building Council’s updated green building certification system, LEED v4, will shorten project time, the Triangle Business Journal reports. Raleigh LEED Fellow Douglas Brinkley of...
View ArticleGM Renaissance Center Sends Zero Waste to Landfill
The General Motors Renaissance Center now recycles, reuses or converts all its waste to energy, diverting 5 million pounds of trash annually from landfill. The automaker says the Renaissance Center — a...
View ArticleGreen Globes Wins DoD Endorsement
In another victory for the Green Globes, the US Department of Defense has decided to allow its facilities to use the green building certification program. While the US Green Building Council’s LEED...
View ArticleIntegrated Reporting ‘Can Restore Trust in Business’
The IIRC’s publication of its Integrated Reporting Framework has won praise from the accounting world. The framework does what it promises, bringing together all of a business’s material information...
View ArticleCleantech to Rebound in 2014, Kachan Predicts
A broad cleantech recovery, the rise of crowdfunding, risk to electric vehicle growth rates and surprises in rare earth element industry profits lead cleantech research and consultancy Kachan &...
View ArticleSustainability Trends Impacting Retailers in 2014
Retail hazardous waste management is an incredibly complex industry from both a logistics and regulatory standpoint. There’s only one constant—it is always changing. Definitions of which materials are...
View ArticleAirport Recycling Program Turns Waste Cooking Oil into Biodiesel
Airport concessions developer Airmall USA has partnered with Greenlight Biofuels to recycle waste cooking oil from tenants in the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s...
View ArticleABB’s Latest DCIM System Offers New Reports, More Safeguards
ABB has introduced Decathlon Version 3.1, the latest release of its data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system, which offers new reports, increased flexibility and more safeguards for managing...
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