Fujitsu Sustainability Report: CO2 Emissions Drop 7.3%
In 2011, Fujitsu Group’s global CO2 emissions totaled around 1.098 million tons, representing a year-on-year reduction of 7.3 percent, or about 87,000 tons, and an 18.2 percent reduction on levels from...
View ArticleE2 Report: Biofuel Industry Will Produce up to 2.6bn Gallons by 2015
Biofuel production capacity has increased from 437 million gallons in 2011 to more than 685 million gallons in 2012, according to a new report from Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). By 2015, the...
View ArticleLA Schools Drop Foam Lunch Trays
The Los Angeles Unified School District has begun using recyclable and compostable paper cafeteria trays instead of the foam lunch carriers previously in use, the LA Times reports. The announcement was...
View ArticleShell to Build CCS Project for Canadian Oil Sands Operation
Royal Dutch Shell announced it will build a $1.36 billion carbon capture and storage project to cut carbon dioxide emissions up to 35 percent at its 255,000-barrel-per-day oil sands upgrader in Canada....
View ArticlePike: Smart Building Energy Management to Top $1bn by 2020
The automated, or smart, building energy management systems market is to almost quadruple in size and be worth over $1 billion by 2020, according to a report by Pike Research. Worldwide spending on...
View ArticleHyundai, APL Hull to Boost Container Ship Fuel Efficiency 20%
Global shipping company APL, Hyundai Heavy Industries and DNV collaborated to develop a hull that the companies say will make ultra-large container ships 20 percent more fuel efficient, per twenty-foot...
View Article$16m Invested in Fixed-Income Conservation Note
Since its initial offering in April 2012, environmental charity the Nature Conservancy’s investment-grade “Conservation Note” has seen investments totaling $16 million to support conservation projects...
View ArticleThe Risks of Ignoring Environmental Records during Malfunction Events
It’s no secret that one of the most important methods of keeping your business in compliance with regulations is to keep regular and detailed records about all your environmental aspects, including...
View ArticleUS Water Infrastructure Needs: The Private Funding Gap
One of the great ironies in the water sector is that while many cities are starved for funding, billions of dollars in capital raised by private infrastructure funds continues to sit on the sidelines...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: ISO 50001 and 14064, Largest LEED Gold...
IMPACT Exhibition Management Co. has continued to reduce energy use to ISO 50001 standards for a second year at the IMPACT Arena, Exhibition and Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand. In June the...
View ArticleJet Airways Using IBM Emissons Management
Indian airline Jet Airways is using IBM’s Integrated Emissions Management System to map its carbon emissions and optimize its fuel use by detailed analysis of each flight. IBM’s IEMS allows Jet to...
View ArticleFirms in Emerging Economies Expect Big Energy Changes by 2014
By 2014, 55 percent of energy decision-makers at large firms operating in emerging economies believe there will be significant to transformative changes in the way their firm manages energy, according...
View ArticleGiant Eagle, Albertsons, Whole Foods Among 2012 GreenChill Awards Winners
Pittsburgh’s Giant Eagle and Albertsons in Carpinteria, Calif., among other supermarkets, have won EPA awards for using more environmentally friendly refrigerants. The 2012 GreenChill Environmental...
View ArticleEDF, EMC Discover Innovative E-Waste Tracking Systems
A code printed on electronic subsystem components using passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) ink is one of the winners of Eco-Challenge, a crowdsourced competition hosted by InnoCentive Inc...
View ArticleSC Johnson, Clorox, Reckitt Products Fail in Online Safety Guide
Cleaning products made by Clorox, SC Johnson and Reckitt Benckiser are among hundreds that received failing grades in an online safety and disclosure guide published by the Environmental Working Group....
View ArticleExclusive: Stonyfield Farm Footprints 150 Products, Across Entire Lifecycle
Stonyfield Farm has now calculated the complete lifecycle carbon emissions of three quarters of its 200 products, as part of parent company Danone’s charge to individually footprint 35,000 items. The...
View ArticlePower Assure’s PAR4 Measurement Service Maximizes IT Power and Space...
Power Assure has unveiled the PAR4Measurement Service designed to measure the true idle and peak power consumption of IT equipment in a rack or an entire data center. The measurement service was...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Biofuels, Norway Woos Industry, UN CDM...
Draft EU legislation will impose a limit on the use of crop-based biofuels such as rapeseed and wheat that may be less climate-friendly and compete with food production. The draft rules will need the...
View ArticleNestle Nespresso Hits 75% Capsule Recycling Goal
Nestle Nespresso, maker of portioned coffee, surpassed its 75 percent capsule recycling capacity goal one year ahead of schedule. The company committed in 2009, as part of its Ecolaboration program, to...
View ArticleIdentifying the True Cost of Food Can Optimize Business Strategies
We identified the true cost of three everyday products – breakfast cereal, fruit juice and cheese – by examining the stages of production from farm and orchard to the supermarket shelf. The embedded...
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