Burt’s Bees Closes Loop on Hard-to-Recycle Plastic
Burt’s Bees has partnered with Preserve to spur collection of #5 plastics from lip balm tubes and caps, while providing raw material for consumer goods. The partnership will recover plastics from...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Doha, NY Fracking, UK Energy Law
More than 17,000 participants are expected in Doha, Qatar for the United Nations’ 18th Conference of the Parties on climate change, beginning today. The meeting comes a month before the expiration of...
View ArticleEnvironmental Risks Affect Sovereign Credit, UN Says
Natural resource and environmental risks are becoming financially material for sovereign credit risk, according to a study by the United Nations Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)....
View ArticleDoes Sustainability Transformation Start with the Right Corporate Culture?
Several thousand new college graduates will be joining Infosys this year. Just like I did more than 15 years back, they will go through a structured induction process where they will learn about our...
View ArticleP&G Sustainability Report: Normalized Energy Down 16% Since 2007
The Procter & Gamble Company has cut its energy use per unit of production by 16 percent since 2007 and by 52 percent by 2002, according to the company’s latest corporate sustainability report. The...
View ArticleTax Reforms ‘Fail to Prioritize Energy Efficiency’
The US has an opportunity to create a corporate tax structure that encourages investments in energy efficiency and industrial modernization, according to a report by the American Council for an...
View ArticleSustainability a Key Factor for Consumers, Survey Finds
Two thirds of consumers in six countries recognize the need to consume less and purchase products that are good for the environment and society, according to an online survey. The Regeneration Consumer...
View ArticleTire Plant Achieves 10% Energy Reduction Over 3 Years
Cooper Tire’s Texarkana, Ark., plant received Gold level certification from the US Department of Energy for achieving a 10.1 percent energy savings improvement over three years. Cooper Tire Plant...
View ArticleTom Murphy – Tulane Sustainability Lecture Series
Tom Murphy talk from the Tulane Sustainability Lecture Series.
View ArticleEnvironmental Executive Moves: Ketchum, EPA, Heumann, Shorenstein
Here’s the latest news on hirings and promotions among environmental leaders. Ketchum: The public relations agency has appointed Julie Ferriot to the newly created position of global director of...
View ArticleBig Bio-Based Markets in Coatings, Packaging
Bio-based material companies should move beyond niche applications to address the same large markets dominated by petro-based material, according to a study by Lux Research. Bio-based polymers have so...
View ArticleDecisions About Sustainability Are about Our Lives (Not Someone Else’s)
A picture is worth a thousand words. We hear this phrase often, and intuitively know that it is true. But the translation of knowledge into practice, as is so often the case in life, can be a very...
View ArticleModest Hopes for UN Climate Talks
The United Nations’ climate talks got underway Monday in Doha, Qatar with negotiators and experts expressing modest expectations for the two-week global conference, which will center on laying the...
View ArticleGM to Develop More Fuel-Efficient Tires
General Motors and its research partners will begin developing more fuel-efficient tires next year at the National Tire Research Center in Halifax County, Va., the automaker says. According to GM, tire...
View ArticleWolseley to Cut Emissions From Energy 30%
Plumbing and heating products distributor Wolseley UK announced it will reduce carbon emissions from energy use by 30 percent in the next three years as part of its new environmental policy for...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: FSC, IEEE 1680.3 TV Assessment, Oil Sands Crude
Tetra Pak announced that more than 20 billion of its Forest Stewardship Council-labeled packages have been sold globally in 2012. The label certifies that the paperboard used for the packaging material...
View ArticleRGGI Investments Cut 12m Tons of CO2
Investments made between 2009 and 2011 using proceeds from the allowance auctions of The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – a cap-and-trade system for power plants in certain northeast and...
View ArticleNestle Cuts Packaging 40-70 Million Kg in 20 Years
Sustainable packaging innovations have saved Nestle between 40 and 70 million kg of materials over the past two decades, according to Anne Roulin, the company’s global head of packaging and design,...
View ArticleEPC Ratings Aren’t Correlated to Actual Energy Efficiency, Study Finds
For the past four years, Jones Lang LaSalle and the Better Buildings Partnership have analyzed 225 commercial buildings in London and found there is little or no correlation between Energy Performance...
View ArticleA Solution to the Disposal of High Level Radioactive Waste
The nation’s quest for a permanent solution to the disposal of high level radioactive waste
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