Oil Replacement Costs Soar 350 Percent to $27 Per Barrel, Report Finds
The cost of replacing a barrel of produced crude has risen from $6 per barrel in 1998 to $27 per barrel in 2011 as exploration and production companies are forced to look to harsher climates and...
View ArticleGRI Sees Record Feedback on G4 Guidelines
A record number of 3,095 formal feedback submissions were made by sustainability experts, organizations and professionals on the next generation of the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability...
View ArticleSky Sustainability Report: 2020 Carbon Target Met Early
British Sky Broadcasting has met its 2020 carbon reduction ahead of schedule by achieving a reduction in normalized carbon emissions by 31 percent over 2008/09 levels in 2011/12, according to the...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: Fisker Talks IPO, Leaf Parks Itself, Volvo V60 Sells Out
Fisker Automotive is looking to share parts and technology with other car companies, which would help the electric carmaker save money, Fox News reports. The company is also preparing for a public...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Strategic Petroleum Reserve, EU Shipping...
The Senate’s GOP leadership is urging President Obama not to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and instead preserve the option for a “truly rainy day.” One senior Republican sought to...
View ArticleEV Supply Equipment Sales to Hit Almost 2.4 Million Units in 2020
The global electric vehicle supply equipment market will increase from fewer than 200,000 units sold in 2012 to almost 2.4 million in 2020, according to a report from Pike Research. Electric Vehicle...
View ArticleCargill, Huntsman, Unipec to End Use of Fuel-Inefficient Vessels
Agricultural firm Cargill, a major charterer of dry-bulk ships, Hunstman Corp., and Unipec, a unit of China’s biggest oil trader, will no longer use the most fuel-inefficient vessels in an effort to...
View ArticleApple Still Lags in Defining a Social Purpose
Recently, it was announced that Apple‘s stock market value had neared $625 billion, making it the most valuable company ever. The headlines made me re-consider an article I wrote for Forbes last August...
View ArticleAT&T Becomes Bloom Energy’s Largest Corporate Customer
AT&T announced plans to more than double its contract with Bloom Energy and add another 9.6 MW of fuel cell power. The fuel cell installations will bring AT&T’s total to 17.1 MW spread over 28...
View ArticleLighting Science Group and National Park Service Open ‘First of Its Kind’...
LED company Lighting Science Group and the National Park Service have opened a net-zero visitor center (pictured) in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, the first of its kind in the nearly...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Declare Product Label, ISO 50001, ACEEE...
The International Living Future Institute has launched the Declare label for building products. Declare aligns with the Living Building Challenge by providing product transparency in support of the...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Enterprises to Invest in PET Recycling Plant, Recycling Research
Coca-Cola Enterprises, which produces, markets and distributes Coca-Cola products in Western Europe, is investing 6.5 million euros ($8.4 million) in a PET recycling facility and introducing research...
View ArticleWater ‘Directly Responsible’ for 12.6% of US Energy Use
Over 12 percent of US energy use is directly related to water consumption, according to research from The University of Texas at Austin. In Evaluating the energy consumed for water use in the United...
View ArticleVeolia’s Actioflo Carb Removes 75% of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater
Water treatment product Actiflo Carb can remove large amounts of pharmaceuticals and personal care products and of phosphorus from wastewater, according to research by Veolia Water North America. Over...
View ArticleGroom: Sustainability Software Sales ‘Considerably Lower’ than Forecasts
The number of large companies buying software to aid in their sustainability tracking and reporting in the last two years is “considerably lower” than earlier estimates and, while the market will...
View ArticleHilton Launches Carbon-Offset Program in Southeast Asia
Hilton Worldwide has launched a carbon-offset program for events and meetings held at select hotels across Southeast Asia, using its LightStay Meeting Impact Calculator to track and measure carbon...
View ArticleUSGBC Opens LEED Draft Proposal to Public Comment
The US Green Building Council has opened the fifth public comment period to allow the building industry to view the most recent rating system in its proposed update to the LEED green building program....
View ArticleA Look at Chemical-Free Cleaning
According to recent research conducted by Underwriters Laboratories, 65 percent of those questioned do not believe cleaning products have improved much in the past five years when it comes to product...
View ArticleReport: US Emissions Fell 9% Since 2005, Rate Unlikely to Continue
The nearly 9 percent reduction in annual carbon emissions in the US between 2005 and 2011 is unlikely to continue without major changes in how energy is currently produced and used, according to a...
View ArticleXylem Sets 5% Energy, GHG, Water and Waste Reduction Goals
Water technology company Xylem is targeting 5 percent reductions in all of its key environmental metrics by next year, according to the company’s first sustainability report. By 2013 the company is...
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