Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shipping Emissions, Drought Relief, Wind...
Environmental regulation requiring ships to use cleaner, low-sulfur fuel while operating near the North American coast took effect Aug. 1. The North American Emissions Control Area (see map) brings the...
View ArticleContract Wins: Amyris, Itron, Noresco, Landis+Gyr, Eaton, Foster Wheeler
Advanced microbial engineering company Amyris has expanded an existing technology collaboration agreement with Total for production of renewable diesel and jet fuel. Total agreed to provide $30 million...
View ArticleDarden Sustainability Report: Restaurant Energy Use Drops 2.3%
Darden, which runs restaurant chains including Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and Red Lobster, cut its average energy use per restaurant by 2.3 percent from 2010 to 2011, according to the company’s...
View ArticleAlternative Fuels for Govenment Deliveries ‘Could Save $25bn by 2025′
By allocating just 20 percent of its $150 billion transportation services budget to carriers that fuel their fleets with domestically produced natural gas, electricity, biofuels and other alternatives...
View ArticleCarbon Trust, Credit360 to Offer Value Chain Carbon Footprint Software
The Carbon Trust and Credit360 are developing a carbon management software system designed to let companies track and manage value chain emissions. The partnership’s first product, the “Value Chain...
View ArticleSafety Board Probes Boeing Dreamliner Engine Failure
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an engine failure that occurred on a high fuel-efficiency Boeing 787 Dreamliner during a taxi test last weekend in Charleston, S.C., Industry...
View ArticleCosta Cruises to Reduce, Reuse Three Waste Streams in Pilot Project
Italian travel group Costa Cruises has implemented a waste reduction, recycling collection and reuse pilot program on its Costa Pacifica ship as part of the Sustainable Cruise project. The project,...
View ArticleInterface Sustainability Results: Energy Intensity Drops 6%, Landfilling 28%
Carpet company Interface’s non-renewable energy intensity for its manufacturing operations dropped around 6 percent from 2010 to 2011, from 10,944 to about 10,222 BTUs of non-renewable energy per...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Biofuels Producers Coordinating Council,...
Eight biofuels groups are forming a coalition, the Biofuels Producers Coordinating Council, in reaction to calls to limit a federal mandate for renewable fuels because of the drought. The coalition...
View ArticleEV Project Offers Free Blink Chargers to Commercial Sites in Three Cities
Clean electric transportation and storage technologies provider ECOtality said that it will offer its Blink smart charging stations free to commercial host sites and residents of Chicago, Atlanta and...
View ArticleUL Environment Buys GoodGuide
UL Environment, a business unit of product safety certification organization Underwriters Laboratories, has announced the acquisition of GoodGuide, one of the world’s largest sources of information on...
View ArticleSainsbury’s Builds Out Largest Solar Capacity in Europe
Sainsbury’s has completed installation of 69,500 PV solar panels, or 16 MW of power, across 169 stores in the UK. With this investment, the supermarket says its rooftops collectively host the largest...
View ArticleReport: Cities Identify Potential Economic Growth from Climate Change...
I was privileged to be engaged in AECOM’s partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) to develop its second Global Cities Report (AECOM partnered with CDP to analyze the data and design of the...
View ArticleSocial Impacts in Sustainability
At the end of my last article, I was starting to make a connection between resiliency and some of the societal dimensions of sustainability. As we start looking into some of the less technical aspects,...
View ArticleStudy Finds Big Differences in NYC Building Energy Intensity
In most sectors, New York City’s most energy intensive large buildings typically use three to five times the energy of the least energy intensive buildings, according to a report by the city’s Office...
View ArticleCeres: Exxon, Marathon, Others Give Investors Weak Reports on Drilling and...
Investors are not getting a clear, consistent picture of material risk from oil and gas companies, and may be exposing themselves to climate change-related risk, as fossil fuel production moves into...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Energy Star, LEED, IS0 50001, ISO 14001, EU...
The Kimberly-Clark 130,000-square-foot headquarters facility in Irving, Calif., has earned the EPA Energy Star rating. In two years, the company said that it has improved its rating by 52 points – from...
View ArticleFuel Cell Industry to Hit $15.7B by 2017
The global fuel cell industry had a mixed year with portable system shipments contracting 16 percent, while the stationary sector grew 75 percent from 2010, according to a report from Pike Research....
View ArticlePort of Los Angeles Cuts Emissions As Much As 76%
The Port of Los Angeles’ cumulative emissions have plunged as much as 76 percent while container volumes increased 6 percent between 2005 and 2011, according to new data. On a year-to-year basis, the...
View ArticleSchneider Electric Rebrands dashboarDView to Resource Advisor
Schneider Electric has rebranded its online energy management and sustainability platform to Resource Advisor. The company obtained the software platform, previously called dashboarDView, in 2011 when...
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