Toyota Meets EPA’s Energy Star Challenge at Eight Facilities, with 24% Drop
Eight Toyota manufacturing sites in North American have reduced their energy intensity by 10 percent or more, meeting the standards of the EPA’s Energy Star Challenge for Industry, the company said....
View ArticleOffice Depot Debuts Nation’s First EPEAT Consumer Labels for Electronics
A newly-designed Office Depot store in Portland, Ore., will be the country’s first to offer products bearing the EcoSense label for electronic merchandise. Products with the EcoSense label will be...
View ArticleNike, Walmart, Levi’s Launch Sustainable Apparel Index
Walmart, Nike, Target, JC Penney, Levi’s and fellow members of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition have unveiled the group’s index for measuring the environmental impact of apparel products across the...
View ArticleUS Companies ‘Lag in Disclosing Environmental Practices’
Only 16 percent of US-based Russell 1000 companies have adopted formal climate-change policies, compared to 39 percent of their global counterparts, according to a new study by The Conference Board,...
View ArticleAF&PA Sustainability Report: US Paper Recycling Jumps 5.3%
The amount of paper consumed in the United States in 2011 that was subsequently recovered and recycled increased 5.3 percent between 2009 and 2011, according to the American Forest & Paper...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: EU ETS, Solar Trade War, Talisman Reporting Fine
A European Commission analysis presented a draft proposal for the EU ETS to address the carbon allowance surplus – with options to withhold 400 million, 900 million or 1.2 billion allowances over the...
View ArticleTed Turner Discusses Sustainability
Ted Turner of the UN Foundation speaks with Mark Goldberg of UN Wire about his experiences and passion for building a sustainable future at Rio + Social.
View ArticleEvraz Highveld Looks to Improve Furnace Efficiency by 50%
Evraz Highveld Steel & Vanadium is implementing iron-ore reduction processes that should cut the energy consumption of its furnaces by up to 50 percent, reports Mining Weekly. The company tapped...
View ArticleNissan: Leaf Software to Blame for Charging Woes
An investigation by Nissan and GE into reports the WattStation home charger damaged 11 Leaf electric vehicles found that the car’s software can allow damage to occur while using certain chargers in...
View ArticleThe Untapped Potential of a Sustainability Story
In last week’s article I talked about the advanced practice of telling your sustainability story. Today I’d like to explore that topic a little more. Inc. Magazine recently ran an article, 11 Tips to...
View ArticleImportance of CSR in Building Future Society
IBM EMEA director for corporate affairs and corporate citizenship and chair of the CSR Europe Board of Directors, Celia Moore, discusses the role of CSR in building a smart, sustainable and inclusive...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: ISO 20121, LEED, Biodiesel
Manchester United football club announced that it has earned the new ISO 20121 certification for sustainability in event management, its second international standard in environmental management this...
View ArticleNew Analytics Application Powers Analysis of Total Energy Resource...
Sustainability analytics company Energy Points unveiled EnergyPoints Analytics, an application to power resource management and planning decisions. EnergyPoints Analytics provides a normalized,...
View ArticleChipotle to Serve 10 Million Pounds of Locally Grown Produce for Second...
Chipotle Mexican Grill plans to serve more than 10 million pounds of locally grown produce – grown on farms within 350 miles of the restaurants where they will be served – for a second straight year,...
View ArticleScholastic Beats FSC-Certified Paper Goal a Year Early
Children’s publishing, education and media company Scholastic purchased over half of its paper from Forest Stewardship Council-approved sources last year, surpassing its 35 percent target for 2012 one...
View ArticleCompanies Use Sustainability Reporting to Help Formulate Strategy
The most popular reasons for companies to engage in sustainability reporting are stakeholder engagement and strategy formulation – not compliance or pushing the corporation’s point of view, according...
View ArticleCalifornia Green Chemistry 2012: What You Need to Know
How the new CA draft regulation is different On Friday, July 27, 2012, California published an updated version of the Green Chemistry oriented legislation, called the “Safer Consumer Products...
View ArticleEnergy Efficiency as Important for Branding as for Bottom Line, Deloitte Says
Improving energy efficiency at America’s businesses is as important to brand building as it is to growing the bottom line, according to a new Deloitte report. The study, reSources 2012, shows that...
View ArticleLondon 2012: McDonald’s Chooses Bioplastic Packaging, Will Recycle 75% of...
McDonald’s is using Novamont’s Mater-Bi bioplastic for the cups, cutlery, straws, lids and containers used at its Olympic park restaurant, in a bid to meet the sustainability goals of the 2012 Games,...
View ArticleAT&T Launches Cell Phone Eco-Rating System
AT&T has launched its eco-ratings system in stores, allowing customers to compare cell phones’ environmental impacts. The rating system – which has been developed in collaboration with sustainable...
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