Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Rio+20, ‘Crucifixion,’ Ozone Standards, Greywater
Corporate sustainability reporting may drop out of the main negotiating text for the upcoming UN Rio+20 meeting, according to remarks from participants at informal discussions ahead of the June...
View ArticleInnovating Business Models for Sustainability
Regulation, cost, reputation, revenue and risk management are driving many organizations to cut their carbon emissions, and become more sustainable. More businesses are looking at how they can put...
View ArticleGreenPrint Enables Tracking, Management of Printing with TonerMeter
GreenPrint Technologies has launched software that provides detailed metrics on ink and toner use on the individual user, workgroup, or organizational level, allowing companies to measure – and...
View ArticleHershey Sustainability Report: Sets Goals to Cut Water 10%, GHGs 13%
Hershey used its second corporate sustainability report yesterday to publish a set of new sustainability goals including reducing its waste by a quarter, achieving a recycling rate of 85 percent,...
View ArticleSeaworld, Busch Gardens to Eliminate Plastic Bags
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment is to eliminate plastic shopping bags from the 10 theme parks it operates by the end of the year. The move will make it the largest theme park operator to make this...
View ArticleDelta Airlines Buys Oil Refinery to Control Fuel Prices
Delta Airlines has agreed to buy a refinery from oil giant ConocoPhillips in an effort to reduce its $300 million-a-year jet fuel bill. The airline announced Tuesday that its subsidiary Monroe Energy...
View ArticlePublic, Executives Doubt Companies’ Environmental Commitment
Only 21 percent of the American public and 25 percent of executives believe the majority of businesses are making efforts at sustainability, according to the 2012 Gibbs & Soell Sense &...
View ArticlePuma Earns A, Apple Takes Home D in EIRIS Sustainability Rankings
German sportswear manufacturer Puma tops EIRIS’ Top 10 Global Sustainability Leaders list while Apple earns a D, in a ranking that sees UK and European companies receive higher marks than their US and...
View ArticleAbbott Sustainability Report: Three 2015 Targets Met Four Years Early
Global health care company Abbott Laboratories reached its 2015 goals for carbon dioxide emissions, water intake and waste output in 2011, while increasing year-on-year sales by more than 10 percent....
View ArticleNational Grid, PacifiCorp Among Latest Green Button Commitments
National Grid, PacifiCorp, PPL, TXU Energy and Chattanooga EPB yesterday committed to provide more than 8 million businesses and households with easy access to their energy use data with the click of...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Responsible Jewellery Council, R2 Milestone,...
The Responsible Jewellery Council has certified its first refiner to the RJC Chain of Custody Standard, which was released in March. Metalor USA Refining received the certification with the...
View ArticleLeveraging Manufacturing, Part II
My last article began to dig into the leveraging discussion and started to elaborate on this topic using an example. The example was from a recent paper from our research group at Berkeley and focused...
View ArticleGreenstone Tool Promises to Streamline Supply Chain Monitoring
Greenstone Carbon Management Limited has launched SupplierPortal, an online tool that allows suppliers and their buyers to share and monitor environment, labor, health and safety and anti-bribery and...
View ArticleGreen Builders, Homeowners Must Work Closely to Bridge ‘Performance Gap’
Recently, I listened to an interesting discussion via webinar between Ron Jones, president of Green Builder Media, CR Herro, vice president of Environmental Affairs at production builder Meritage...
View ArticleWest Fraser Timber Company to Install 13 MW Biomass Plant, Sell Power to Utility
West Fraser Timber Company will generate 13 MW of power for its British Columbia plant and the province as a whole, using wood chips converted to biomass fuel. The wood products company has signed a...
View ArticlePike Research: Building Info Modeling Market Will Reach $1.8bn This Year
The market for building information modeling software and services is still fledgling, but it’s evolving rapidly as the architecture, engineering and construction industry realizes its tools and...
View ArticleLime Energy, Central Hudson Contract to Provide 5,000 Commercial Lighting...
Central Hudson Gas & Electric is implementing a commercial lighting program, under a four-year contract with Lime Energy Co., that aims to complete 5,000 energy efficiency projects. The program...
View ArticleNike Sustainability Report: Aims for 20% CO2, 15% Water, 10% Waste Cuts by 2015
Nike has committed itself to a 20 percent reduction in CO2 emissions per unit, a 15 percent improvement in water use per unit of production and a 10 percent reduction in waste from manufacturing by...
View ArticleEMCO’s Latest Version of Remote Shutdown Software Helps Automate Power...
EMCO Software has launched a new version of its remote shutdown software. The new EMCO Remote Shutdown version 5 is aimed at helping network administrators to manage Windows PCs across corporate...
View Article90% of Cleaning Products at Whole Foods Meet Ingredient Disclosure Rule
More than 90 percent of the household cleaning products sales at Whole Foods Market pass muster under the company’s Eco-Scale rating system, a year after the launch of the program, which requires full...
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