Farming Carbon Calculator to Go Online
Unilever, PepsiCo, Marks & Spencer and other companies that make up the Cool Farm Institute have selected Best Foot Forward and Centre for Agriculture and Environment as software partners to build...
View ArticleHyatt Installs Solar Gard Window Film
The Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, a 726-room hotel in Los Angeles, has upgraded more than 78,000 square feet of its windows with an energy efficiency product made by Solar Gard. The window film provides...
View ArticleHilton Launches Mattress Recycling
Hilton has begun a mattress recycling program, across all its US hotel chains, that it says will recycle about 85 percent of its mattresses and box springs. The hotel chain has purchased more than...
View ArticleNorthern Trust, MSCI Create Custom ESG Indices
Northern Trust has partnered with investment decision tools company MSCI to give more environmentally and socially responsible investing options to the investment management company’s clients. Under...
View ArticleNREL Discusses Power Electronics Modules
Kenneth Kelly, Senior Engineer for the Center for Transportation Technologies ans Systems at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory talks to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.carlist.com about Power...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Pa. Drinking Water, German Shipper Banned,...
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection reported incomplete drinking-water test results that omitted data on some toxic metals, because the department’s oil and gas division had not...
View ArticleFleet Round-Up: Stobart, FedEx, Cracker Barrel, Tire Efficiency
Stobart Group’s transport and distribution division Eddie Stobart and UK compressed and liquefied gases supplier BOC are testing a fleet of Volvo dual-fuel vehicles powered primarily by liquid natural...
View ArticleHealthcare Renovations Must Consider Mold, Legionella Risks
Healthcare facilities need to take a proactive approach and assess potential risks posed by mold and legionella before starting any repair, renovation or construction project, according to an...
View ArticleLG ‘Energy Star Most Efficient’ Sales Jump 75%
LG Electronics USA says its sales of products designated by the EPA as “Energy Star Most Efficient” increased 75 percent in 2012. More than 750,000 LG products awarded Energy Star Most Efficient 2012...
View ArticleBP Pleads Guilty, Pays $4.5bn in Gulf Spill Settlement
BP has pleaded guilty to federal felony charges and agreed to pay $4.5 billion in fines for the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 workers and caused the worst offshore oil spill in US...
View ArticleGM Sustainability Update: Energy Intensity Drops 6%
General Motors has realized year-over-year gains against all of its 2020 environmental goals, including reducing its energy intensity by six percent in that time period, according to an update to the...
View ArticleM&S Sells a Billion ‘Eco or Ethical’ Items
Cotton sourced to Better Cotton Initiative standards is being used to make 900 Marks & Spencer products, as the company announced that 35 percent of its products now have an ecological or ethical...
View ArticleCSR Tracking Tools Unreliable, Survey Finds
Global companies’ confidence in correctly tracking the financial contribution of corporate social responsibility has fallen from 76 percent to 66 percent in two years, even as the proportion of...
View ArticleAn Interview with Claire Dixon at GlaxoSmithKline
Claire Dixon, VP Global Corporate Responsibility at GlaxoSmithKline, in an interview from the 2012 BSR Conference.
View ArticleAmeripen Product Recovery Tool Goes Live
The American Institute for Packaging and the Environment’s Product Recovery Knowledge Maps, a web-based tool that aims to increase recovery rates for packaging material, has gone live to the public on...
View ArticleSustainability Is the Foundation of ‘Capitalism 2.0′
Despite the worst recession since the 1930′s, sustainability has found its way into the consciousness of progressive boardrooms around the world. Clearly companies see sustainability as part of a...
View ArticleGreenbuild Roundup, Day 3: Open Standard for Building Products, C40, USGBC
Here is the latest news from the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, which wrapped up in San Francisco on Friday: The Health Product Declaration Open Standard, an open format for reporting...
View ArticleDHL Launches CO2 Reporting Services
DHL has expanded its GoGreen environmental services with two new carbon reporting services – DHL GoGreen Carbon Estimate and DHL GoGreen Carbon Footprint – aimed at providing US importers and exporters...
View ArticleUnilever Tests Deodorant Recycling
Earth911 and global consumer goods company Unilever, whose more than 400 brands include Dove, Suave and Q-tips, announced a project to test whether deodorant sticks can be economically recycled. The...
View ArticleCompanies Lose Ethanol Mandate Fight
The EPA rejected requests to waive the federal Renewable Fuel Standard requiring ethanol be blended into gasoline, effectively disagreeing with states and industry groups that argued the mandate was...
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