Coca-Cola Selling PET Recycling Plant, Sources Say
Coca-Cola’s PET recycling plant in Spartanburg, S.C. is for sale, Plastics News has reported. More than half a dozen sources told the website that Coca-Cola has given United Resource Recovery LLC, its...
View ArticleHuge BofA Project to Install $2.6bn of Solar on Company Roofs Across U.S.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Prologis and NRG have unveiled a ground-breaking partnership designed to finance up to $2.6 billion of commercial and industrial rooftop solar arrays, giving a huge boost...
View ArticleGE Ecomagination Awards $63m to Ten Energy Tech Firms
Hara and Viridity are among the ten energy tech companies to win $63 million of investments from GE and its venture capital partners in the second round of the $200 million Ecomagination Challenge. The...
View ArticleParis Air Show Briefing: Zero-Emission Jet, Biofuel Deals, Green Engine Cleaning
Nine major airlines have signed letters of intent to use bioefuels from Solena Fuels for flights out of the San Francisco Bay area. American Airlines and United Continental Holdings led the deal’s...
View ArticleRenewables Briefing: L’Oréal, Snyder’s-Lance, Cape Wind
L’Oréal USA is partnering with GeoPeak Energy in a purchase power agreement (PPA) to install a 1.4 MW photovoltaic solar system at L’Oréal’s Piscataway, N.J. manufacturing facility. It is the company’s...
View ArticleSmartWay Rolls Out Dray Truck Initiative
The Environmental Protection Agency is launching a new program, under its SmartWay Transport Partnership, designed to cut pollution from trucks servicing U.S. ports. The initiative will focus on dray...
View ArticleHess Corporation Buys IBM/Juniper Efficient Networking
IBM and Juniper Networks have announced that they will deliver energy-efficient networking services to global energy company Hess Corporation. Hess has signed a multi-million dollar contract with...
View ArticleCFO’s Role In Corporate Sustainability
Straus Family Creamery CFO Deborah Parrish talks to the challenges of being a CFO adjusting to new questions on asset allocations and investment evaluation in response to changes in the customers’...
View ArticlePolicy & Regulatory Briefing: Oil Reserve, Efficiency, EPA Bills
Obama administration officials announced yesterday that they will tap into the country’s strategic oil reserve to replace losses from the conflict in Libya and ensure the country has enough supplies to...
View ArticleIBM Saves $30m in Energy Costs in One Year
IBM saved $29.7 million in energy expenses and conserved 272,000 MWh of electricity in 2010, according to the company’s 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report. The report says that in 2010, IBM’s energy...
View ArticleCalif. Cap-and-Trade Work Gets Go-Ahead
The State of California can push ahead with plans to implement a carbon cap-and-trade system, a state appellate court has ruled, according to Reuters. The decision puts regulators on course to launch...
View ArticleGreen Build Briefing: Top 10 Markets, Product Rankings, LEED Certifications
San Francisco has been named as the number one major U.S. office market for green real estate opportunities. The Californian city topped the Green Building Opportunity Index, by real estate firm...
View ArticleHonda Aims for 30% CO2 Cut; EV Maker Think Files for Bankruptcy
Honda has announced a target to reduce CO2 emissions from its products by 30 percent by the end of 2020, compared to 2000 levels. The car maker announced the goal as part of its Environmental Annual...
View ArticleGoogle Ditches PowerMeter Application
Google has announced that it will retire Google PowerMeter, a product that the company said “didn’t catch on the way we would have hoped”. The search giant said on its blog that the tool for monitoring...
View ArticleMetrics and Priorities for Green IT and Organizational Sustainability
In this keynote panel discussion from Uptime Institute Symposium 2011, Rami Branitzky (SAP), Christina Page (Yahoo!), Dr Nicole Peill-Moelter (Akamai Technologies) and John Pflueger (Dell) join John...
View ArticleWink: More on Sustainability in Marketing
For those of you who have read this column for the past few months, you will likely think of me as the pessimistic wretch of green marketing. Perhaps you picture me in a suede-patched jacket grumbling...
View ArticleFramework for Sustainable Business Plans Released
Accenture and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy have created a strategy for CEOs to use when implementing sustainable business plans. A poll in the two organizations’ report, Business at...
View ArticleEleven Questions (and Answers) about Corporate Ecosystem Valuation, Part II
Ecosystem services are the benefits people gain from the environment and biodiversity such as water, crops, timber, flood protection, waste assimilation, carbon sequestration and recreation. Every...
View ArticlePolicy & Regulatory Briefing: Boiler Rule Delay, Obama’s 56 mpg Plans,...
The Environmental Protection Agency has further delayed issuing its final air toxics standards for boilers and certain solid waste incinerators, until April of next year. The EPA released the final...
View ArticleEnvironmental Leader Launches Enterprise Environmental, Energy &...
Environmental Leader has quietly rolled out a new subscription product over the last few weeks – EL PRO. EL PRO is the culmination of many, many months of preparation in building a subscription product...
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