Standards & Compliance Briefing: IEEE Smart Grid, UL 2755 for Data Centers,...
Five new IEEE standards activities address a variety of communications and operational needs for current and future smart grids. Four standards are updates — IEEE 1815, IEEE 1366, IEEE 1377, IEEE...
View ArticleClimate Change, Pollution to Wipe 3.2% From Global GDP by 2030
Climate change is already stripping 1.6 percent annually from global GDP, amounting to $1.2 trillion, a figure that will double to 3.2 percent by 2030 as temperatures escalate and carbon-related...
View ArticleJones Lang LaSalle Sustainability Report: Clients Energy Savings Jump 5.5%
Real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle saved 5.5 percent more energy in its managed portfolio in 2011, than in 2010, according to the company’s 2011 corporate sustainability report. In 2010, the...
View ArticleVenstar Launches ‘Go Green for No Green’
Venstar has launched a program that allows retail chains and other multi-location businesses to install its energy management system — which Venstar says saves companies up to 25 percent on energy and...
View ArticleFrost & Sullivan Forecasts Growth in Mining, Food and Beverage Water and...
The market for water and wastewater equipment and technology will continue to expand in the mining and food and beverage industries, according to two new Frost & Sullivan studies. CEO 360 Degree...
View ArticleContract Wins: First Solar, Kyocera, Alstom, Constellation
First Solar won a contract to build four solar power plants in New Mexico totaling 20 megawatts of generating capacity for PNM Resources. The solar plants could be in service by the end of 2013,...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: US Carbon Tax, Australia Carbon, EU ETS...
A $20 per metric ton carbon tax in the US could reduce the country’s budget deficit by 50 percent over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Research Service. The tax would generate $88...
View ArticleAlcoa Wheels Cut Carbon Footprint of Commercial Vehicles, Study Finds
Alcoa released a peer-reviewed life cycle assessment that concluded substituting steel truck wheels in commercial vehicles with the company’s aluminum ones substantially cut carbon emissions. In North...
View ArticleGSA Makes Case For Smart Lighting, Plug Strip Roll-Out
The US General Services Administration has concluded reviews of energy efficient technologies responsive lighting systems and plug load control and released details of how such technology could be...
View ArticleFuji Xerox Australia Sustainability Report: Water Use Drops 34%
Water use at Fuji Xerox Australia declined 34 percent year-on-year, according to the company’s latest corporate sustainability report. In 2011-12 the company used 8,153 kiloliters of water from...
View ArticleUnilever to Use Carrotmob ‘Buycotts’ to Promote Sustainability
Unilever has partnered with Carrotmob, a nonprofit that uses consumer spending to influence businesses’ environmental impacts, to create sustainability campaigns. Over the next two years, the global...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: BP Settlement Talks, Chinese Wind Farm Buy, NY...
Talks between BP and the US government to reach a settlement over the BP Gulf of Mexico 2010 oil spill have stalled because the US is holding out for at least $18 billion. BP wanted to resolve all...
View ArticleIBM, ESB Launch ‘Smarter’ EV Charging System in Ireland
IBM today announced it has partnered with ESB Networks to deploy a “smarter” electric vehicle charging system to manage about 1,000 public charging points across Ireland, allowing EV drivers to access,...
View ArticleA Debate: What Should We Call Sophisticated Sustainability Measurement Tools?
One of the ongoing debates in our office is based on the frequent and common use of the word “tool” in the sustainability metrics field. What is a program that delivers sustainability measurement and...
View ArticleCSR In Canada: Who’s Who and Why They Matter, Part I
Leadership in Canadian CSR is important. Without leaders, we lack inspiration and the experience of a practical way to capture what works and what doesn’t in corporate sustainability. But progress in...
View ArticleBroadscale to Link Utilities, Power Companies With Cleantech Startups
General Electric, National Grid and Duke Energy have become the first members of Broadscale Group, a New York-based investment firm that connects energy corporations with cleantech startups. The newly...
View ArticleGE Introduces Molybdate-Free Water Treatment Chemicals
General Electric has introduced a line of molybdate-free water treatment chemicals to prevent corrosion in sterilizers and pasteurizers used in the food and beverage industry. GE’s new chemicals are...
View ArticleFTC’s Revised Green Guides Target Carbon Offset Claims
Marketers should not make broad, unqualified general environmental benefit claims about a product being green or eco-friendly, and should have reliable scientific evidence to support carbon offset...
View ArticleWater Wake-up Call: It Starts with Infrastructure
Those of us that lived through them can remember the two energy crises of the 1970s, which hit the United States quite hard. Both were the result of oil embargoes against the US and other countries...
View ArticleIkea to Sell Only LED Lighting By 2016
Ikea, the Swedish-based furnishings retailer, says it will sell only LED lamps and bulbs in its stores by 2016 in an effort to help customers save energy, reduce electricity bills and cut carbon...
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