Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Imperial Sugar, Wetlands Fill, Gas Storage
Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division says Imperial Sugar will pay $80,000 to settle charges that the company violated state clean water standards, Georgia Public Broadcasting reported. The...
View ArticlePerdue, Maxco Cut Ribbons on Solar Arrays
Perdue, the food and agriculture business, has announced that the first phase of a 1.6 MW solar installation is now online. The Bridgeville, Del., facility consists of 6,720 solar panels. The...
View ArticleWal-Mart ‘to Assess Crop Sustainability’
Wal-Mart is considering using sustainability measurement devices developed by the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, reports ThePacker.com. Wal-Mart officials have said that the retailer is looking...
View ArticleXpedx Aims to Cut Waste 10% a Year
An environmental initiative by distribution company Xpedx is aiming to recycle 2,400 tons of material in 2011 and reduce the firm’s waste by 10 percent annually over the next three years. Xpedx, a...
View ArticleApple Paying Consumers for PCs
Apple has expanded its recycling program with an option that will pay owners of iPhones, iPads, Macs and even PCs a fair market value for their old electronics, AppleInsider reports. The website...
View ArticleHow Arup designed Sky TV HQ as a Sustainable TV Centre
In 2008 SKY commissioned Arup Associates to design Harlequin 1, a state of the art broadcasting HQ at their Osterley site in West London. The building needed to house 8 television studios and post...
View ArticleCompliance & Standards Briefing: Vehicle Disposal, E-Waste Strategy, Utility...
The Ontario Automotive Recyclers Association is calling for an industry-led environmental management system for recycling and disposing of old vehicles, the Record said. According to the group, more...
View ArticleFord, SunPower Offer Solar Offset System for Focus Electric
Ford and SunPower Corp. have created a rooftop solar system that they say will provide Focus Electric owners with enough renewable energy to offset the electricity used to charge the vehicle. Through...
View ArticleBeyond Energy and Water – The Value of LEED
Some critics have charged that the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED program does not deliver on the energy and water savings claimed by the recipients of certification. While in some cases...
View ArticleIntegrated Reporting: Why Do It and What Makes It Work
What do you do when a company’s sustainability report lands on your desk or announces itself on your desktop? Do you take it seriously and read every page with avid interest? Possibly you, like many,...
View ArticleDuPont Plant Saves 540 Billion Btu
A DuPont plant in Orange, Texas has been honored by the American Chemistry Council for energy-efficiency improvements that saved about 540 billion btu. The DuPont packaging and industrial polymers...
View ArticleDOE Awards $175m for Advanced Vehicle Research, $7m for Fuel Cells and Storage
The Department of Energy yesterday awarded more than $175 million to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced vehicle technologies. The funding, to be spread over three to five years, will...
View ArticleCBS Signs 20 New Advertisers to EcoAd
Boston Properties, Cirque du Soleil (pictured), Ford Dealers of Northern California, Solar City and Winthrop Hospital are among almost 20 new advertisers signed up to CBS’s EcoAd advertising program....
View ArticleBeverage Industry Leaders Get Recycling ‘B-’
Nestlé Waters North America, PepsiCo and the Coca-Cola Company have all received a “B-” letter grade for their recycling efforts in a new report, which criticized the beverage industry’s pace in...
View ArticleBuilding Cap-and-Trade System ‘An Ingenious Approach’
The world’s first cap and trade system just for buildings could prove a model for other municipalities seeking to cut emissions, according to a forthcoming journal article. Tokyo’s emissions trading...
View ArticleSustainability Software Briefing: C3, Cisco, Sensus, 1E
C3, a fledgling vendor of energy management software, says that its customers and partners now include Adobe, Constellation Energy, Dow Chemical, GE, HP and Siemens. The customer and partner roster...
View ArticlePureSafe Water Trial Removes 99% of Sea Salts
PureSafe Water Systems, Inc. has completed the first two in a series of extended field trials on its mobile, on-site purification system. The field trial program deploys the system in a real world...
View ArticleUnilever Discusses Sustainability Strategy
Thomas Lingard, Director of Global External Affairs, Unilever, talks to CSR Europe about Unilever’s sustainability strategy.
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: DuPont Order, E-Waste Ban Expanded, Fracking...
The Energy Department’s natural gas advisory subcommittee has released its report on hydrofracking, saying that the industry might win public trust by overhauling water management, updating rules that...
View ArticleInternational Paper Cuts Energy Use, Increases Landfilling
International Paper reduced its global energy use from 2007 to 2010, but increased its landfilled solid waste from 2006 to 2010, according to the company’s 2010 Sustainability Report. Since 2006, IP’s...
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