BP Commits $100m to Fund Materials Research Center
BP has pledged $100 million to establish an international research center aimed at developing advanced materials and coatings that can be used in oil and gas exploration and production as well as in...
View ArticleInteractive Emissions Tracker Links CARB Database with Google Maps
The California Air Resources Board has launched a mapping tool that allows users to locate major sources of greenhouse gases and examine the emissions of each facility. The emissions tracker and...
View ArticleAdidas Introduces Water-Saving DryDye T-shirts
Adidas has introduced a line of T-shirts made with DryDye, a fabric and manufacturing technology developed by the Yeh Group that doesn’t require water to dye clothing. Adidas, which released a...
View ArticleUnilever, DHL Partner to Drive Sustainability, Efficiency
Unilever and DHL Supply Chain have partnered on a series of initiatives that the companies say will increase sustainable practices and the speed of bringing products to market. According to Unilever...
View ArticleToo May Eco-Labels ‘Overwhelming,’ Companies Say
Consumers and companies alike are becoming “confused” and “overwhelmed” by eco-labeling, according to a survey of more than 1,000 international companies including Hewlett-Packard, Nestlé, Canon, Sara...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: US Drought, Renewable Fuel Standard, Smart Grid
Areas of extreme drought in Iowa, the top corn and soybean-producing state, have increased to 69.14 percent of the state, from 30.74 percent a week ago. Drought expanded to 94 percent of Missouri and...
View ArticleHilton DoubleTree Hotel Installs 100kW CHP
The DoubleTree Hotel in Tarrytown, NY, has installed a combined heat and power system that is expected to reduce its carbon emissions by about 403 tons per year. American DG Energy owns and operates...
View ArticleMillerCoors Sustainability Report: Cuts Water Use 1%, Meets Waste Goal
MillerCoors reduced the amount of water used in the production of beer by 1 percent from 2010 to 2011, according to the company’s 2011 sustainability report. In 2010 MillerCoors used 4.11 units of...
View ArticleUtility ComEd Launches Data Center Efficiency Program
ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon, has introduced an efficiency program aimed at reducing the energy use of data centers. The utility will work with data center designers, owners and tenants to...
View ArticleEvergreen, Maersk Among First to Join Port of Los Angeles Clean Ship...
Major shipping carriers Evergreen, Hamburg Sud North America, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk Line, Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Yang Ming are the inaugural participants in the Port of Los Angeles’ Environmental Ship...
View ArticleHeineken to Use Credit360 for Sustainability Reporting
Heineken will use Credit360′s sustainability software system to gather, analyze and communicate quarterly sustainability performance across its global operations. The contract will be used to deliver...
View ArticleGE Lighting Retrofit Saving Aultman Hospital $13,000 Yearly
A lighting refit at Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio, using GE lighting products is saving the healthcare center $13,000 a year in energy costs. GE’s Evolve LED lighting system has been installed on...
View ArticleBuilding an Effective Data Acquisition Strategy: Acquiring Product Material...
Managing the environmental performance of products is an increasingly complicated challenge for manufacturers who face a myriad of requirements from regulators, consumers and customers to control and...
View ArticleWall Street Cares If Companies Are Sustainable
As sustainability professionals, a significant part of our job is convincing upper management that embracing sustainability will create value that far exceeds its costs. Some one-off solutions show...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Cellulosic Biofuels, Ethanol Quota, Calif....
INEOS New Planet BioEnergy has become the first large-scale facility to receive EPA registrations for the production and sale of advanced cellulosic biofuels from non-food vegetative waste materials....
View ArticleSonoco Sustainability Report: Energy Use Drops 5%
Packaging firm Sonoco reduced its normalized energy use by 4.96 percent from 2010 to 2011, from 3.688 to 3.507 MMBtu per ton of product produced, according to the company’s latest corporate...
View ArticleWorst US Drought in 50 Years Drives Up Grain Prices, Ethanol Under Pressure
The worst US drought in five decades, which has caused more damage than expected to corn and soybean crops, helped push the global food price index up six percent in July, according to a report by the...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: Toyota Prius C, Mitsubishi and Peugeot, Leaf Limo
The Toyota Prius C, a less expensive subcompact version of the standard hybrid, has been named by Consumer Reports as one of five popular cars to avoid. The five cars to avoid list also includes the...
View ArticleUS Wind Power Hits 50 GW Milestone
The US has installed a total of 50 GW of wind energy capacity, according to the American Wind Energy Association – hitting the milestone as Congress works to extend the wind energy production tax...
View ArticleFuel Prices Spike Following Chevron Fire
The average price of gasoline hit $4 a gallon in California on Aug. 10, four days after the Chevron oil refinery fire, and will likely climb even higher according to analysts. In a San Francisco...
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