Boeing 737 MAX to Improve Fuel Burn up to 12%
Boeing has made a series of design updates to its 737 MAX engine variant that will make additional fuel savings available to customers by 2017, the company said. Airlines operating the 737 MAX will see...
View ArticleCanals to Cool Businesses with No Upfront Cost
Waterside businesses in the U.K. could use canal water as an alternative to traditional air conditioning at no up-front cost, in a project being led by British Waterways. The U.K. government-owned body...
View ArticleRetrofits ‘Could Save Commercial Buildings 25-35%’ on HVAC Costs; LEED Bank...
Large commercial buildings could cut their heating and cooling costs by an average of 25 to 35 percent by adding certain retrofits to existing large HVAC systems on their rooftops, according to...
View ArticleHilton Installs Green Roof, CHP Systems
The Hilton New York – Manhattan’s largest hotel – has installed a green roof and cogeneration system. The 16,000-square-foot green roof system was installed by Xero Flor America and is located on the...
View ArticleNestle Sustainability Report: Direct GHGs Fell 7.7 Percent, Per Production,...
Nestle’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.8 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2011, while its production volume increased by 3.4 percent, according to the company’s 2011 corporate...
View ArticleMarket Perspectives from the LP-GP Clean Energy & Sustainability Forum
The most active investors in the cleantech, renewable energy and sustainability sectors share their views on the market at the fourth annual LP-GP Forum: Clean Energy & Sustainability hosted by...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: LEED Comments, ISO 50001, IEC 61646, ISO 14001
The 4th public comment period for LEED 2012, the updated version of USBGC’s green building program expected to launch this fall, will run from May 1 until May 15. The draft of LEED 2012 will include...
View ArticleConsumer Electronics Firms Upped Recycling by 53% in 2011
Members of the consumer electronics industry’s eCycling Leadership Initiative – including Apple, Best Buy, Dell and HP – increased the amount of goods they recycled by 53 percent in 2011, according to...
View ArticleFleet Briefing: Ford Partners with Dow; CNG for Veolia, Waste Connections and...
Ford Motor Company is partnering with Dow Automotive Systems to research the use of advanced carbon fiber composites to reduce weight in high-volume vehicles. If the development effort is successful,...
View ArticleShell Sustainability Report: Waste Up 24%, Water Use Up 3%
Royal Dutch Shell’s waste production increased almost 24 percent year-on-year from 2 million metric tons in 2010 to 2.47 million metric tons in 2011, according to the company’s 2011 sustainability...
View ArticleAccor Hotels Target 10% Cuts in CO2, Energy Use
Hotel operator Accor has launched a set of sustainability targets for 2015 across the group’s 4,400 hotels owned and leased hotels worldwide. The announcement follows a review finding that 70 percent...
View ArticleMcCormick Distribution Center Achieves Net-Zero Energy Status
Spices and seasoning company McCormick & Company and Constellation Energy, a subsidiary of energy provider Exelon, have announced that McCormick’s 363,000-square-foot distribution center in...
View ArticleWhy Congress Can’t Kill the PTC
The wind power production tax credit (PTC) has survived multiple extensions since its inception in 1992, and now it requires support more than ever before. In February, the alternative energy sector...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Chevron, Mexico Low-Carbon Bill, Oil Market...
Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 10 items. The new Brazilian prosecutor of the case against...
View ArticleKellogg’s Sustainability Report: Falls Behind Target With Normalized Waste...
Kellogg’s increased its normalized waste to landfill by 13 percent last year, putting the cereal company behind schedule to meet its 2015 goal on waste reduction despite reaching that target in 2010,...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Briefing: GM Explosion, Honda, Toyota, USPS, IBM
Here’s the latest alternative fuel and energy-efficient vehicle news affecting environmental and energy executives. Last week’s explosion at a General Motors electric battery-testing facility could end...
View ArticleBWI Airport Solar Array to Deliver $400K in Annual Savings
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport recently unveiled a 505-kilowatt solar system, which along with new energy efficient lighting is expected to save the facility nearly...
View ArticleCintas Eco-Apparel Uses 15 Million Plastic Bottles
Cintas Corporation says it has helped eliminate more than 15 million plastic bottles from the waste stream by reuing plastic waste in its eco-apparel product line, and saved 8.5 million trees through...
View ArticleLessons Learned: Sustainable Aquatics Center at London 2012
Video highlighting what was learned in building the Sustainable Aquatics Center for the London 2012 Olympics.
View ArticleCoca-Cola, Vodafone, Marks & Spencer Win Environmental Reporting Awards
Coca-Cola Enterprises has won the top honor in the CR Reporting Awards 2011, taking home the Best Report award for its corporate responsibility report titled “Committed to 2020: Shaping a Sustainable...
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