Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Roan Plateau Drilling, China Water Plan,...
A US district judge ordered the Bureau of Land Management to re-assess its plan to allow drilling on 50,000 acres on the Roan Plateau in western Colorado, which is said to be among the largest natural...
View ArticleAre IT Data Centers Emerging as a Killer App for Green Power? Part II
This is part II in a two-part series. Part I can be read here. Clean Energy Options for Data Centers IT and cloud computing companies have three primary avenues for sourcing cleaner energy for their...
View ArticleCoulomb to Deploy 160 EV Chargers, Part of $4.4m NYSERDA Award
Coulomb Technologies has received $1 million to install more than 160 charging ports throughout New York state. In partnership with gas and electric company National Grid, Coulomb will deploy 80...
View ArticleClean Diesel to Hit 12% of Light-Duty Vehicles Sales by 2018
Rising fuel prices and stronger fuel economy regulations will stimulate demand for clean diesel vehicles, pushing sales from 9.1 million in 2012 to 12.1 million annually by 2018, a report from Pike...
View ArticlePepsi Pre-Cool System Expected to Cut Energy Use 26%
PepsiCo has begun testing a Cool-n-Save pre-cool system for air conditioning at its bottling facility in Tulsa, Okla. Greenway Design Group says it expects its pre-cooling system to reduce the bottling...
View ArticleRio+20 Closes with Draft Agreement, No Specific Targets
The UN Rio+20 Earth Summit ended Friday without a consensus on sustainable development goals, and instead with a draft agreement that lacked specifics and measurable targets. Countries agreed to the...
View ArticleVale, Pacific Hydro to Team Up for 140 MW Wind Farms
Vale, the world’s second-largest mining company, and Australian renewable energy company Pacific Hydro have announced a consortium agreement to jointly build and operate two wind farms, totaling 140...
View ArticleToyota, Johnson & Johnson, Honda Top Global Green Brands Ranking
Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, Honda, Volkswagon and Hewlett-Packard topped an annual ranking of global green brands by consultancy firm Interbrand. Interbrand’s 2012 Best Global Green Brands report...
View ArticleStrategic vs. Project-Based Approach to Sustainability: Part 1
There are two “standard” ways to implement a sustainability program. Organizations are inclined to either establish a sustainability team or task a certain department to carry the weight. More often...
View ArticleAquatech Unveils Modular Evaporator System
Aquatech will unveil its Smartmod modular evaporator technology for the oil sands market at the 2012 Global Petroleum Show. It utilizes a vertical tube falling film evaporator design to treat produced...
View Article10 Steps to An Effective Office Recycling Challenge
There’s nothing like a little friendly competition to get people motivated. Corporations can take a lesson from college campuses, where a growing number of challenges like Recyclemania are successfully...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Groups Lobby Against LEED; Household...
Twenty trade groups from the plastics, vinyl and chemical industries, including the American Chemistry Council, The Vinyl Institute and the Resilient Floor Covering Institute, are lobbying to stop the...
View ArticleBe the Next Nissan: How to Find Sustainability Breakthroughs
Cafedirect, which introduced fair trade coffee to the UK, Nissan’s Leaf and ZipCar, which turned a profit in the second half of 2011, are all examples of “breakthrough innovations for a brighter...
View ArticleCSX Sustainability Report: Water Consumption Jumps 39%
Rail company CSX’s water consumption jumped 39 percent from 2010 to 2011, from 1,010,919 to 1,412,637 Kgal, according to its 2011 corporate sustainability report. The company says it is implementing...
View ArticleToshiba Cancels National No-Print Day Campaign
Toshiba America Business Solutions says it will cancel its National No-Print Day Campaign in response to protests from the commercial paper and print industries. TABS, the managed print and...
View ArticleP&G, Nestle, PwC Call ‘Sustainable Packaging’ a Red Herring
UK retailers, manufacturers and consumer groups including the Packaging Federation, The Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment, Diageo, Boots, P&G, Nestle and Rexam are calling for the...
View ArticleGRI Unveils G4 Draft Reporting Guidelines
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has issued a draft of its latest reporting guidelines, G4. The document, which provides standard disclosures and guidance to help organizations prepare...
View ArticleFord Doubles Number of Fuel-Efficient Models
Ford is to offer eight vehicles rated 40 mpg or more by year-end 2012, the company has announced. The Detroit giant says that figure is twice the number it had on sale last year and more than any other...
View ArticleThe Business Case for Sustainability: Is That the Right Question?
I recently read this column by Graham Russell arguing that Wall Street analysts may be realizing that sustainability may help influence the valuation of assets, and it’s about time. Many have tried to...
View ArticleThe Ten Commandments of Green Marketing
“America’s eco-consciousness, it turns out, is fickle. As recession gripped the country, the consumer’s love affair with green products, from recycled toilet paper to organic foods to hybrid cars,...
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