Contract Wins: Sumitomo, InterCore Energy, University of California, Aqua...
Sumitomo Corporation has bought GE’s share in the 550 MW Desert Sunlight Solar Farm under construction in the California desert, east of Palm Springs. This investment gives the Japanese-based company...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Nuclear Safety, Alaska-Asia Pipeline, EIA...
Most of the EU’s 130 active nuclear reactors need safety improvements, repairs or upgrades, at a cost of up to $32 billion, a European Commission review finds. The EC conducted a nuclear safety review...
View ArticleICLEI Releases National Standard for Measuring a Community’s Emissions
The first-ever national standard for how to measure the greenhouse gas emissions of cities, counties and other municipalities, has been released by the ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA....
View ArticleAT&T to Connect Users With Smart Bike Share Program
AT&T will be the exclusive mobile internet provider in the United States for Social Bicycles, a company that builds smart bikes equipped with an integrated locking system and GPS tracking. Social...
View ArticleDuPont Bio-Based Enzymes Cut Water Use in Cotton Production by 70%
Using DuPont’s bio-based enzymes as a replacement for traditional chemicals in cotton textile preparation can reduce water use by 70 percent and energy use by 27 percent, the company says. A...
View ArticleiPhone 5 Less Toxic than Samsung Galaxy S III
Apple’s recently-released iPhone 5 contains smaller amounts of toxic chemicals than its main smartphone rival the Samsung Galaxy S III, according to research by ifixit.org. In the study, which was...
View ArticleEPA Regulations to Cost Economy up to $275bn
Current and pending EPA power plant regulations could cost the US economy up to $275 billion between 2010 and 2035 if the regulatory timeline is followed, according to updated findings from the...
View ArticleHershey to Source 100% Certified Cocoa by 2020
The Hershey Company has said it will source 100 percent certified cocoa for its global chocolate product lines by 2020. The company did not say what certification program it would use, but said cocoa...
View ArticleDoug Burgoyne: Embracing Sustainability in Business
FrogBox’s Doug Burgoyne discusses sustainability and business.
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Cross-State Pollution, Gas Price Spike,...
The EPA filed a petition in the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which in August ruled 2-1 to suspend the agency’s cross state air pollution rule and ordered it rewritten. The EPA asked the...
View ArticleGE, NETL Ink $1.2m CO2 Sequestration Monitoring Contract
GE Global Research has signed a contract with the National Energy Technology Laboratory, part of the US Department of Energy national laboratory system, to build a multi-point sensing system to monitor...
View ArticleKenco, Terracycle Team Up for Recycling Program
UK-based coffee brand Kenco is teaming up with upcycling specialist TerraCycle to create what it says is the UK’s first program that urges customers to recycle all brands of coffee packaging, reports...
View ArticleFord South Africa Taps Veolia for $2.5m Wastewater Treatment Plant
Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa is investing about $2.5 million in a new wastewater treatment plant from Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies South Africa, to facilitate the manufacturing of...
View ArticleLowe’s, Kohler, KB Home Win EPA Water Awards
Lowe’s helped its customers save about 4 billion gallons of water last year, and Kohler introduced 40 new water-efficient toilet models to the North American market in 2011, earning both companies EPA...
View ArticleSocial Impacts in Sustainability, Part II
This article could as well be subtitled: Green, Manufacturing and Education I woke up recently to read about a riot at a Foxconn factory in China where, according to the New York Times, the state-run...
View ArticleMicrosoft, PepsiCo, M&S and Others Urge UK Power Sector Carbon Goal
Microsoft, PepsiCo UK and Ireland, Cisco, M&S and other members of the Aldersgate Group today called on the UK government to set a 2030 carbon target for the power sector. The UK sustainable...
View ArticleSaving the Struggling Sustainability Program
By now, many organizations have gone through the cycle of initially gaining momentum and then being required to present the business case for your organization’s sustainability initiative. The program...
View ArticleDozen Companies to Join Puma EP&L Coalition; Firm Now Reporting at Product Level
Sportswear company Puma has followed its environmental profit and loss (EP&L) process down to the product level, and is planning an industry coalition to broaden adoption of the sustainability...
View ArticleBloomberg-Backed Group to Set Sustainability Standards
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, a non-profit group backed by Bloomberg LP, Generation Foundation, Metanoia Fund and Rockefeller Foundation, launched this month with the goal of...
View ArticleGE, Peake Fuel Solutions Launch ‘CNG in a Box’
GE and Peake Fuel Solutions, an affiliate of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, have launched the CNG In A Box system, a compressed natural gas refueling product for retailers that comes in an 8 foot x 20...
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