UK Manufacturers Need Incentives to Meet Low-Carbon Goals, Study Says
Manufacturers need more incentives to invest in low-carbon and energy efficient technologies if the UK is going to meet its low-carbon economy goals, according to recent study from the Institute for...
View ArticleAsia Pulp & Paper Pledges ‘Sustainable Forest Management’
Asia Pulp & Paper has pledged that by 2020 all of its suppliers will be certified under the voluntary Indonesian sustainable forest management scheme. The Roadmap comes two weeks after the company,...
View ArticleOC Transpo Garage LED Retrofit Cuts Costs 43%
OC Transpo, the transit service provider for Ottawa and Carleton, Canada, has cut its lighting costs by 43 percent at its St. Laurent garage, following an LED retrofit by Energy Ottawa. The project...
View ArticleFive Global Companies to Push Plant-Based Packaging
Coca-Cola Co., Ford Motor Co., H.J. Heinz Co., Nike Inc. and Proctor & Gamble have formed a strategic working group to accelerate the development and use of 100 percent plant-based PET materials...
View ArticleXcel Proposes Commercial Energy Efficiency Program
Xcel Energy has filed its proposed Conservation Improvement Program, a three-year plan that includes an energy efficiency program targeted to commercial customers. The commercial efficiency program...
View ArticleJohnson Controls Launches Tool Kit to Improve Building Efficiency
Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls has launched a free report designed to help governments improve the air quality and efficiency of commercial buildings, while saving companies money and helping them...
View ArticleEASI, Freeman-Webb Win Energy Efficiency Award
Energy conversation technologies installed at the Nashville House, a 150,000-square-foot office building in Tennessee, helped property management firm Freeman-Webb achieve 22 percent in annual energy...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: USDA BioPreferred, EU Energy Efficiency, China...
The Department of Agriculture has proposed 12 additional biobased product categories that when finalized will include more than 2,300 additional biobased products for preferred purchasing consideration...
View ArticleContract Wins: Honeywell’s UOP, B&W and Consumers Energy, Constellation and...
Supplier Haldor Topsoe has selected Honeywell company UOP to install technology at the Antipinsky Refinery in Russia that will recover and purify hydrogen to help produce cleaner fuels more...
View ArticleWriting Disruptive Corporate Responsibility Reports
A while ago my firm was hired to, as the strategy brief challenged, “…imagine the future of the sustainability report. Be disruptive.” The client asked us to consider this evolution and made it clear...
View ArticleRethinking the Role of Government in Cleantech, Part I
This is part I of a two-part series. Part II will run tomorrow. Another year, another wringing of the hands over tax credits and incentives for clean technology. Lobbyists and vendors in the U.S. are...
View ArticleExperts Give Governments Low Marks for Sustainable Development
Nearly 77 percent of sustainability experts think a major catastrophe will have to occur for national governments to take action on sustainable development, according to survey released by GlobeScan...
View ArticleAPEC Readies List of Green Products Slated for Tariff Cuts
Trade officials with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation said they are working to finalize a list of green products that will be targeted for tariff cuts over the next three years. The APEC Ministers...
View ArticleCoal-Generated Electricity Falls to 39-Year Low
The share of electricity generated from coal-fired power plants dropped to 34 percent in March, the lowest level in at least 39 years, the US Energy Information Administration said. Coal generation...
View ArticleEmpire State Building Upgrade Saves $2.4M in First Year
A major upgrade of the Empire State Building has saved $2.4 million in the first full year since the bulk of the work was completed, exceeding efficiency guarantees by 5 percent, the project’s partners...
View ArticleFleet Roundup: Honda Fit EV, Nissan DeltaWing, Audi Axes A2
The 2013 Honda Fit EV has received a combined adjusted EPA mile-per-gallon-equivalency rating of 118 MPGe and a consumption rating of 29 kWh per 100 miles — the best-ever consumption rating awarded by...
View ArticleNextLife’s Recycled Resins Cleared for Use with Food
NextLife’s post-consumer recycled resins have been approved by Health Canada to be used in the manufacture of plastics products that come in contact with food. NextLife’s recycled polypropylene (PP)...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: UL Green Squared, ISO 50001, LEED, Better...
UL Environment said that it has awarded UL Environmentcertification to three tile product manufacturers – Dal-Tile Corporation, Mexican-based ceramic tile manufacturer Porcelanite-Lamosa, and Florida...
View ArticleRethinking the Role of Government in Cleantech, Part II
Yesterday I began a discussion on the role of government in cleantech. Today, the discussion continues below. Drawbacks of incentives How could government grants, loans, tax credits and other subsidies...
View ArticleEnabling Buildings to ‘LEEP’ Forward
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods....
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