PE International’s SoFi 5 Software Aims to Enhance Enterprise Sustainability...
Sustainable business software provider PE International has launched a new version of its SoFi software, SoFi 5. The newest version is capable of intuitively determining a company’s needs and...
View ArticleLockheed Meets Green Goals a Year Early
Defense company Lockheed Martin has achieved its five-year sustainability goals a year ahead of schedule. Lockheed Martin’s programs have reduced its corporate water usage by 25 percent and its carbon...
View ArticleLeakage Rates ‘Threaten Green Benefits of Natural Gas’
Failure to reduce methane leaks has the potential to eliminate much, if not all, of the greenhouse gas advantage of natural gas over coal, according to research published in the Proceedings of the...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Biofuels, Herbicide Ruling, MA Energy Bill
Six biofuel trade associations filed a motion in the U.S. District Court of Appeals to intervene in support of the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) 2012 final rule, which is under challenge by the...
View ArticleCreating Competitive Advantage by Embedding Sustainability
Author and Case Western Associate Professor Chris Laszlo shares examples of how mainstream companies are creating competitive advantage by embedding sustainability in to the core of their business...
View ArticleExtending the Life of Oil Fields, Revitalizing Waterfloods Using Pulsed...
It is anticipated that the average price at the gas pump in the US may climb as high as $5 per gallon by summer’s peak driving season. Understandably, many are worried that continuing turbulence in the...
View ArticleHasbro to Improve Product-to-Package Ratio by 15%
Toy manufacturer Hasbro Inc. has announced plans to reduce materials used in product packaging for many of its popular global brands, including My Little Pony, Nerf and Play-Doh. Average...
View ArticleThe Problem with Pallets
Dr. Suess’s Lorax is getting a lot of publicity these days, starring in his own feature movie. The creature “speaks for the trees” and his life’s goal is to get people to stop cutting them down. His...
View ArticleOil Prices Fall on US Economy Concerns
U.S. businesses may be waving goodbye to rising gas prices, according to figures from two surveys. The national average for a gallon of gasoline on Monday was $3.927 – a slip of two-tenths of a penny...
View ArticleFedEx Express Launches Carbon-Neutral Shipping
FedEx Express, an operating company of FedEx Corp., is launching a carbon-neutral shipping program for its most widely used packaging for document shipping. FedEx Express will make an investment in...
View ArticleEbay Installs Solar Panels after Utah Lobbying Victory
Ebay has installed its largest renewable energy project – a 665 kW solar installation at its Topaz data center in South Jordan, Utah – enabled by a recent legislative victory. Senate Bill 12, signed...
View ArticleGE Pushes GM to Second Place in 2011 U.S. Cleantech Patents
GE led companies securing U.S. patents for clean energy technologies in 2011, with 184, pushing last year’s top company GM down to second place with 127, according to a report from the cleantech group...
View ArticleDefense Department Targets 3GW of Renewables by 2025
The Department of Defense has pledged to deploy 3 GW of renewable power – including solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal – by 2025, in what the White House called one of the largest commitments to...
View ArticleSustainability at Lafarge’s Harbour Plant
Here’s a look at sustainability at Lafarge Canada’s Harbour plant, situated very near to a metro Vancouver residential community.
View ArticleKraft Cuts 45 Million Lbs of Packaging, 12.5m Travel Miles
Since 2010 Kraft Foods has cut 45 million pounds of weight from the packaging of its products, according to an update on the company’s progress towards its sustainability goals. Last year company also...
View ArticleSchneider Electric Panelboards Allow for Circuit-level Energy Monitoring
Schneider Electric has just introduced measurement and verification panelboards (MVP), an enclosed panelboard capable of measuring lighting and plug load energy use at the individual circuit level...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Energy Star Buildings, WindMade, Corrugated...
The newly released list of U.S. cities with the most Energy Star certified buildings for 2011 is led by Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Houston, Dallas-Fort...
View ArticlePast, Present and Future of LEED for Existing Building Operations and...
As the foundation of the US Green Building Council’s certification, LEED for New Construction certification (LEED NC) was designed as a one-time effort for designers, architects, owners,...
View ArticleUMass Medical School, National Grid Partner for 7.5MW Cogeneration Plant
The University of Massachusetts Medical School plans a 14,000-square-foot cogeneration expansion of its existing power plant, using a $5.6 million check from National Grid – the largest incentive...
View ArticleHow Efficient Is Your Server Estate?
Probably the most fundamental pieces of equipment in your IT asset arsenal are servers. But they are also probably the most disregarded when it comes to looking at efficiency. Many Data Center...
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