UL Buys Its Way into Indoor Air Certification
Standard-setter UL Environment is to acquire Air Quality Sciences (AQS) and its certifying body, the Greenguard Environmental Institute. UL describes AQS and Greenguard as the North American market...
View ArticleWhy Cap and Trade Is Good for Environmental Marketing
From birth to death, humans are living on borrowed time. Every other animal on the planet is content to use the solar budget – the daily amount of sunlight that provides the energy needed to sustain...
View ArticleBeef Ranchers ‘Can Significantly Reduce Climate Impacts’
Carbon sequestration offers the best hope for mitigating the climate impacts of raising beef cattle, according to a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The report (pdf) said that U.S. crop and...
View ArticleBiomedical Firm Cuts Per-Unit Water, Energy, Carbon
The biomedical company CSL has achieved reductions in environmental impact across all its per-unit indicators, according to its second annual corporate responsibility report (pdf). CSL, an Australian...
View ArticleObama Launches ‘Better Buildings Initiative’
Tax breaks, grants and loan guarantees will be among the initiatives in a plan President Obama will outline today, to increase energy efficiency in commercial buildings by 20 percent in the next ten...
View ArticleGlobal Bioplastics Market to Surpass $11 Billion by 2015
In 2010 the global market for bioplastics achieved estimated sales of $2.74 billion, according to the latest issue of EL Insights. This value is expected to grow by 32.4% a year from 2011 to 2015,...
View ArticleCarbon Professionals’ Salaries Rise Worldwide
Average salaries of carbon and climate change professionals were up four percent last year, according to a survey out today, but the proportion of participants with North American headquarters fell by...
View ArticleEPA Proposes ‘No Change’ to Carbon Monoxide Standard
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday announced it is proposing to keep the current national air quality standards for carbon monoxide (pdf), while it gathers more information from...
View ArticleLighting Roundup: LAcarGUY, Philips Burton, Grand Coulee Dam
Here’s a roundup of the latest news in energy-efficient lighting. A California car dealership has cut lighting-related energy consumption by 80 percent through a contract with Qnuru, the lighting...
View ArticleGreen Power Marketer Saves Customers $7m
Green energy retailer Viridian prevented more than 46 million pounds of carbon emissions in its first full year of operations, according to the company’s inaugural sustainability report. The report...
View ArticleEU Carbon Markets Re-Open, Trading Slow
Buyers are wary of stepping back into the European spot market for carbon, which began to re-open today after a two-week hiatus, Reuters has reported. The carbon registries in France, Germany, the...
View ArticleProcter & Gamble Installs First Wind Turbine
Procter & Gamble has unveiled a wind turbine at its pet care plant in Coevorden, Netherlands. The Coevorden turbine is the company’s first investment in wind energy, and started operations on...
View ArticleNumber of Investors Seeking Water Data Doubles
The number of institutional investors using the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) to seek data on companies’ water management has risen by over 150 percent, the CDP has announced. This year 354 investors...
View ArticleISO 14001 News from Ingram Micro, DB Schenker
Ingram Micro, which describes itself as the world’s largest technology distributor and supply-chain services provider, has received ISO 14001 certification for its North American operating unit. “The...
View ArticleGreen Marketing To Women vs. Green Marketing to Men
Green marketing to women takes a different approach than green marketing to men. Bill Roth interviews Mike Dodge, President of Atomic Online, during OMMA Video Conference in San Francisco. They discuss...
View ArticleCox Installs Fuel Cells
Cox Communications has completed an 800kW fuel cell installation in Orange County, California. The installation at Cox’s Rancho Santa Margarita facility provides nearly 60 percent of the building’s...
View ArticleWalmart, Target Help Devise Efficient Air Con
Industry and government have jointly developed specifications for commercial air conditioners that can reduce energy use by up to 60 percent, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced. The DOE...
View ArticlePocketing Millions: Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Drive to Reuse
Some of the best little surprises in New England where I live occur with the change of seasons. Instinctively searching the pockets of a jacket I haven’t worn or needed for months, I often experience...
View ArticlePolicy & Regulatory Briefing: NJ Target Cut, China Subsidy, Methane MOU
New Jersey governor Chris Christie yesterday announced plans to scale back the state’s targets under its renewable portfolio standard, the New York Times reports. Christie wants to revise the amount of...
View ArticleDuke Replaces 60 Systems With Integrated EHS Suite
Duke Energy is managing over a million individual chemical records and 600 waste profiles with its Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) system, which has replaced over 60 legacy systems. Duke’s...
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