Standards & Compliance Briefing: Volvo Meets 2014 Standards, Greener Fields...
Here’s the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes seven items. Volvo Group trucks in the US, both Mack and Volvo...
View ArticleEnergy Harvesting Promises $4.4bn Market by 2021
This year $700 million will be spent on energy harvesting, the process by which ambient energy is captured and converted into electricity for small autonomous devices, such as satellites, laptops and...
View ArticlePolicy & Regulatory Briefing: Massive Shell Spill, Online Violation Tracking,...
The EPA on Thursday proposed a rule that would exclude carbon dioxide streams that are injected for geologic sequestration, in wells designated for this purpose, from hazardous waste regulations under...
View ArticleDomtar Broadens FSC Paper Product Range
Paper manufacturer Domtar Corporation has announced a broad expansion of its product line and now expects to sell more than 150,000 additional tons of Forestry Stewardship Council-certified paper per...
View ArticleArmy Introduces Fuel Tracking Software
The U.S. Army is introducing software to track where its fuel goes in the field. The Tactical Fuel Manager program cost the Defense Department $4 million. The department spent $15 billion on fuel last...
View ArticleNYSE Euronext Goes Carbon-Neutral
NYSE Euronext has become the first carbon-neutral global exchange operator, the company has announced. The parent company of markets including the New York Stock Exchange said it reached carbon neutral...
View ArticleFresh & Easy Adds Ryder Natural Gas Vehicles to Fleet
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market has announced the addition of 25 compressed natural gas vehicles to its distribution fleet as part of a partnership with Ryder System Inc. The grocery chain’s new...
View ArticleSuper Green Consumers Indulge Taste for Bling
“Super green” consumers – those engaged in the highest amount of environmentally-friendly activities – are top earners with a penchant for luxury items, according to a report from Scarborough Research....
View ArticleWates Group Discusses Sending Zero Waste to Landfill
In 2006 Rachel Woolliscroft set out to reduce the amount of construction waste Wates was sending to landfill. The disposal was costing Wates over £3.5 million pounds a year. Rachel set a target for all...
View ArticleOil Prices Plunge in Wake of S&P Downgrading
The price of oil fell to its lowest point in over eight months after Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the U.S. credit rating this weekend. Bloomberg reports that oil dropped to $82.52, the lowest...
View ArticleCarbon Futures Platform to Shut; Offsets Near Record Lows
Financial markets firm Intercontinental Exchange Inc. is to shut its emissions derivatives trading platform, Chicago Climate Futures Exchange, by the end of the first quarter, the Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleThe Myth of LCA Cost and Complexity
Lifecycle analysis – the practice of measuring the environmental impacts of a product from its raw materials, through transport and processing, to consumption and disposal – is become an increasingly...
View ArticleLiquefied Natural Gas Boom Predicted
The liquefied natural gas industry can expect a ten-year global investment high of $26 billion per year by 2015, according to a report by energy business advisors Douglas-Westwood. The World LNG Market...
View ArticlePolicy & Regulatory Briefing: Truck Fuel Standards, Air Rules under Fire
President Obama is expected to announce new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty trucks tomorrow at Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Va., the Hill said. A White House statement said the...
View ArticleMolson Coors Cuts Water Use 5% in One Year
Molson Coors cut its water use, energy use, waste and scope 2 carbon emissions in 2010, though its scope 1 emissions rose, according to the company’s 2011 corporate responsibility report. From 2009 to...
View ArticleB&Q Plans Recyclable Tools
U.K. home improvement chain B&Q is drawing up plans to lease some of its construction tools to customers rather than sell them, as it eyes a more sustainable business model, The Independent...
View ArticleCoca-Cola: A Case Study In Sustainability
How does Coca-Cola integrate sustainability into their operations? For several years its facility in Brampton, Ontario, one of its largest in North America, has been transforming its manufacturing and...
View ArticleWalmart Discusses Hidden Savings with Sustainability
In conversation with R. Edward Freeman at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Scott Price, President and CEO of Walmart Asia, discusses the company’s immediate response to the...
View ArticleWhy the Slow Money Movement is Speeding Up
For most Americans, the word “slow” is anathema. When tied to “money,” the slow money movement hasn’t exactly chosen a brand that will have positive connotations to the majority of the population....
View ArticleLess Is More, Part III
Where does the material go? California is used to the concept of getting more from less. We only have to recall now Governor Jerry Brown’s comments when he was governor the first time from 1975 to 1983...
View Article