Overcoming Inaction to Understand & Address Climate Change
Last month an opinion piece appeared in The New York Times Sunday Review that is one of the best summaries of our climate change dilemma I have read in a long time. The author, Beth Gardiner, concludes...
View ArticleThe EDF Climate Corps
This is the first in a few articles drawing from the annals of the Environmental Defense Funds Climate Corps activities. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has been active in a number of areas for...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: National Zoo, LEED, Energy Star for UPS
The National Zoo’s American Trail has opened its new animal conservation and sustainability-themed exhibit this week. The trail and its buildings, tanks, and pens are LEED certified and feature complex...
View ArticleDiageo Sustainability Report: CO2 Emissions Drop 9.4%
Alcoholic beverage firm Diageo reduced its carbon emissions by 9.4 percent over the course of the 12 months to June 30, 2012, according to its latest corporate sustainability report. In financial year...
View ArticleSchneider Buys Supply Chain Software Firm SolveIT
Energy management firm Schneider Electric has signed an agreement to acquire SolveIT Software, an Australian scientific software provider specializing in supply and demand chain optimization and...
View ArticleAirbus: Global Growth Spurs Demand for Fuel-Efficient Aircraft
Airbus forecasts that global passenger traffic will grow at an average annual rate of 4.7 percent in the next 20 years, during which some 10,350 aircraft will be replaced by new fuel efficient models....
View ArticleCeres Launches Online Supply Chain Sustainability Tool
Ceres has released an online tool to help companies assess supply chain sustainability. The Supplier Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ): Building the Foundation for Sustainable Supply Chains was...
View ArticleBASF Debuts Compostable Snack Bag at Seattle Mariners Game
Chemical company BASF partnered with the Seattle Mariners to debut compostable snack bags at a baseball game yesterday. The first 10,000 fans that arrived at Safeco Field to see the Mariners take on...
View ArticleKohl’s to Add 30 EV Charging Stations by Mid-December
Kohl’s Department Stores, along with partners Duke Energy, ChargePoint and ECOtality, will expand its electric vehicle charging station initiative with 30 new stations across 15 additional Kohl’s...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Anti-Dumping Case, Obama Touts Policies,...
The EU began a broad investigation into whether Chinese companies have exported solar power equipment for less than manufacturing costs. The case covers imports from China worth €21 ($26.5) billion...
View ArticleKroger Sustainability Report: Fleet Efficiency Up 9.75%
Grocery chain Kroger increased its fleet efficiency by 9.75 percent in the past year, and by 25.5 percent since 2008, according to the company’s latest corporate sustainability report. The company uses...
View ArticleGM Installing Solar Tracking EV Station
Envision Solar has broken ground on a Solar Tree tracking PV and electric vehicle charging system at General Motors’ Milford Proving Ground in Michigan. The patent pending, dual synchronous...
View ArticleFuel Cell Shipments Will Triple This Year, Review Says
Last year was the most successful year to date in the history of fuel cells with annual megawatts shipped exceeding 100 MW, according to the Fuel Cell Industry Review 2012. The report says annual fuel...
View ArticlePwC: Almost Half of Execs Using Sustainability Valuation
About half of corporate executives polled – 46 percent – say they use sustainability valuation methods to compare and prioritize their sustainability initiatives, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers...
View ArticleUN Calls on Businesses to Reduce Chemical Risks, Avoid a Million Deaths
Poisoning from industrial and agricultural chemicals is among the top five leading causes of death worldwide, contributing to more than one million deaths a year, according to a report by the United...
View ArticleNREL Taps HP, Intel for ‘World’s Most Efficient’ Data Center
The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has selected Hewlett Packard and Intel to provide what it says will be the world’s most energy efficient data center. The $10 million...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Scotts Miracle-Gro, Shell Drilling, Solyndra,...
Pesticides producer Scotts Miracle-Gro was ordered to pay a $12.5 million in fines, penalties and project costs and perform community service violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and...
View ArticleEarning a Return on Energy
Innovative Ways to Incentivize Employees In this article, I am doing something different by putting a “call to action” up front. Let’s start a discussion about innovative ways to incentivize building...
View ArticleHealth & Safety in the ‘Green’ Sphere
The increasing attention on renewable energy sources, sustainable business solutions, environmentally friendly activities and clean waste initiatives has a positive impact on the global environment....
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: Honda’s First Plug-in Hybrid, Better Place, Land Rover
Honda will release the 2014 Accord plug-in hybrid, the automaker’s first plug-in hybrid to hit the market, early next year. The car will have three different operations: all-electric EV drive,...
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