Renewable Distributed Energy Generation Market to Hit $154 Billion by 2015
The Renewable distributed energy generation market, which includes both distributed solar photovoltaics and small wind power, will experience strong growth over the next several years, with total...
View ArticleFord Uses Recycled Jeans in 2012 Focus
Ford’s 2012 Focus will use cottons from recycled clothing in areas such as carpet backing and sound-absorption materials for interior quietness. One of the clothing materials used in the...
View ArticleCarrier Unveils Natural Refrigerated Transport Solution
Carrier Transicold, a unit of Carrier Corp., has unveiled what it says is the world’s first natural refrigerant technology for container refrigeration. The container refrigeration unit design will be...
View ArticleEnvironmental Risks: The Hidden Danger to Business
BP has helped bring the subject of environmental risk to center stage. Tragedies of this magnitude tend to do so, just like the prior Exxon Valdez spill or the Bhopal chemical release before that. But...
View ArticleHolcim Reports $19 Million in CO2 Allowances Stolen
Earlier this week, Holcim Romania announced that on November 16, 2010 its CO2 accounts held within the Romanian National Registry for Greenhouse Gases were illegally accessed and that 1.6 million CO2...
View ArticleTinkering Toward a Better Future
As teenagers in India, my friends and I developed our opinions of America by corresponding with pen pals in the United States. We were convinced that America led the world in science and engineering...
View ArticleShip Recycling Gains Steam
With steel prices in the $300 a ton range and scrap rebounding after its significant downturn, ship recycling is booming these days, American Recycler reports. This isn’t just ship breaking. Ship...
View ArticleEnvironmental Enforcement Roundup – Pangea Ventures, United Water
Illinois EPA Refers Building Owner and Contractor to State Attorney General Illinois Environmental Protection Agency director Doug Scott has asked the Illinois Attorney General’s office to proceed with...
View ArticleCOP 16 Day 3 Press Briefing
Speaking to the media on the third day of the conference, Christiana Figueres said that Cancun can deliver on adaptation, technology transfer, forests and funding, and can also clarify what to do about...
View ArticlePG&E Purchases Carbon Offsets From ODS Destruction
PG&E’s ClimateSmart program will purchase carbon offsets generated by the destruction of ozone-depleting substances (ODS), according to PG&E. Through a new contract, Environmental Credit Corp....
View ArticleWal-Mart, 20th Century Fox Among Recipients of ARRA Funded Energy Efficiency...
During a live online chat at the White House earlier this week, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that 24 projects are receiving a total of $21 million in technical assistance to reduce the...
View ArticleBiomass to Power Dow’s Aratu Complex
The Dow Chemical Company’s largest manufacturing facility in Brazil, the Aratu Complex, has plans to add biomass to its energy mix. Upon completion in December 2012, Aratu will be more than 75 percent...
View ArticleCOP 16 Campaign May Delay Airline Industry GHG Restrictions
CANCÚN — The global airline industry is using political and marketing muscle to push U.N. leaders to establish a sectoral approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On day two of COP16, the U.N....
View ArticleEPEAT Signs On Companies To Qualify Electronics Products
The EPEAT electronic products environmental rating system plans to work with a network of environmental and technical certification, testing and standards groups around the globe to qualify products to...
View ArticleShippingEfficiency.org Rates Energy Efficiency of Over 60K Ships
Shipping, Environmental, Supply Chain, and Logistics professionals have a new tool in shippingefficiency.org, a new data hub which provides the relative energy efficiency of almost every large...
View ArticleCOP 16 End Of Week 1 Press Briefing
During a press conference at the end of the first week of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said governments were engaging on what will be...
View ArticleRGGI Permit Price Remains Low, 43% Go Unsold
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative released the results of their 10th auction of CO2 allowances, held Wednesday, December 1st. Once again, the results point to an over-supplied market most likely...
View ArticleGreen Grid Unveils New Sustainable Data Center Metrics
The Green Grid has proposed the use of two new metrics designed to help improve the sustainability of data center facilities by measuring the effectiveness of carbon and water use tied specifically to...
View ArticleRoundup – Is the Internet Sustainable When People Use 3+ Gigabytes of Data...
Is the Internet Sustainable When Everyone On Earth Uses Over 3 Gigabytes of Data Per Day? Fast Company Putting Our Utilities on an Energy Diet Renewable Energy World Sanyo Electric To Mass Produce...
View ArticleWhy Cancun is the Place to Be… for Energy Innovation
A year ago, the world was hopeful that a global agreement would come out of the COP15 sessions in Copenhagen. With the United States joining the UN climate negotiations for the first time in almost a...
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