Lucid Software in Starbucks Energy Trial
Ten Starbucks coffee shops are to use cleantech software company Lucid’s real-time Building Dashboard in an attempt to change employee energy use behavior. Developed in conjunction with the Snohomish...
View ArticleUN, World Bank Unveil Carbon Finance Program for Philippines Pig Farmers
A UN and World Bank initiative has begun providing pig farms with incentives for using Earth-friendly waste treatment facilities. On July 26, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
View ArticleSustainability: How to Get the Troops on Board
While presenting at a sustainability symposium earlier this year, I had the feeling that most of the people attending my seminar were well aware of the need for facility managers to operate in a...
View ArticleFinancing Smart and Sustainable Mobility Solutions
Urbanization can be defined as one of the mega-trends of our time: the urban population grows by 2 people every second of the day, and it will almost double in the next four decades. One of the main...
View ArticleWater Disposal Most Severe Fracking Environmental Threat, Says Report
The disposal of contaminated wastewater from hydraulic fracturing wells producing natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region presents risks from salts and radioactive materials that are “several orders...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: Nissan, Ford, VW, GM
UQM Technologies’ PowerPhase Pro 100 electric drive systems are powering a fleet of zero-emissions, fuel cell London taxicabs during the 2012 Olympics. The taxis have a range of 250 miles and refuel in...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: White House Renewable Energy Push, Renewable...
President Obama announced that seven nationally and regionally significant utility-scale solar and wind energy projects will be expedited, including projects in Arizona, California, Nevada, and...
View ArticleRasGas Sustainability Report: Absolute Emissions Jump 13%
From 2010 to 2011 Qatar-based liquified natural gas producer RasGas’s absolute and normalized greenhouse gas emissions increased 13 percent and 1.7 percent respectively, according to its 2011...
View ArticleAir Products to Build 50MW Gasification Energy-From-Waste Plant
Air Products will build and operate a 50 MW renewable energy plant in the UK using advanced gasification energy-from-waste technology. The Tees Valley plant, depicted in the graphic, will divert up to...
View ArticlePTC Extension Deadline Still Looms: What You Need to Know
The majority of wind industry professionals agree that the wind market is finally reaching a point of maturity. The market is no longer divided by regions, as the standards implemented have helped the...
View ArticleSustainability and Organizational Development
In order to reduce expenses and become more environmentally sustainable, a distilling company decided to reduce the glass thickness in some of its bottles and to replace it with plastic in others....
View ArticleIowa Cold Storage Taps SmartWatt for Retrofit
Iowa Cold Storage, a Midwest-based provider of temperature-controlled warehousing, logistics, and transportation for food products, is saving more than $30,000 per year in total lighting costs...
View ArticleAnalysis: Hotels Must Use Targeted Marketing to Attract Green Consumers
Hotels trying to attract green consumers should use targeted marketing that draws on both functional and emotional green images, according to research from the University of New Hampshire Whittemore...
View ArticleCA Cities, Counties Join Walgreens Lawsuit
California prosecutors from at least 36 counties and two cities have asked a judge to force Walgreen Co. to comply with state environmental laws against dumping hazardous waste, according to news...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: ISO 50001, Uniform Terminology for Air...
Management systems certifier UL DQS has earned its ISO 50001 Energy Management System program accreditation with the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB). UL DQS is one of only two...
View ArticleWalmart 1 MW Wind Turbine Due this Fall; Nevada’s First Wind Power Project...
Walmart says a 1 MW wind turbine pilot project, located at its distribution center in Red Bluff, Calif., should be operational by this fall and will provide about 15 to 20 percent of the distribution...
View ArticleBoston-Power Signs Deal with Beijing Electric Vehicle
Lithium-ion battery maker Boston-Power has signed a multi-year agreement to provide battery systems to Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., the EV delivery arm of Beijing Automotive Industry Co., for electric...
View ArticleUnited Airlines Sustainability Report: Airline 2.3% Less Fuel Efficient Than...
From 2010 to 2011 United Airlines’ fuel efficiency dropped 2.3 percent, according to the country’s 2011 sustainability report. In 2010 the company used 0.155 gallons of fuel per revenue ton mile, and...
View ArticlePower Assure Products Used in UNFCC Methodology
Data center infrastructure and energy management provider Power Assure Inc. has announced that two of its products form “the foundation” of a new United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
View ArticleHow to Garner Public Support for Unconventional Gas Exploration
Although unconventional gas exploration, relatively speaking, is a new industry, the development of commercially viable unconventional gas exploration technology has a long and extensive history. The...
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