B&Q Plans Recyclable Tools
U.K. home improvement chain B&Q is drawing up plans to lease some of its construction tools to customers rather than sell them, as it eyes a more sustainable business model, The Independent...
View ArticleCoca-Cola: A Case Study In Sustainability
How does Coca-Cola integrate sustainability into their operations? For several years its facility in Brampton, Ontario, one of its largest in North America, has been transforming its manufacturing and...
View ArticleWalmart Discusses Hidden Savings with Sustainability
In conversation with R. Edward Freeman at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Scott Price, President and CEO of Walmart Asia, discusses the company’s immediate response to the...
View ArticleNASA Discusses Green Building
Dr. Seth Shostak and Silicon Valley Buzz interviews Dr. Steven Zornetzer, Associate Center Director at NASA Ames Research Center, about NASA’s own “green building.” This building for its employees is...
View ArticleCompliance & Standards Briefing: Ultra-Low Sulfur Coal, Water and LEED, PV...
Ameren Missouri, an electric and gas provider, said that it will comply with the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule by entering into a long-term contract with Peabody Energy for the purchase of 91 million...
View ArticleICE Adds 21 Emissions Contracts to Replace Futures Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange has announced plans to launch 21 over-the-counter North American emissions contracts. The announcement follows on the heels of news that ICE will shut its emissions...
View ArticleWhere the Regulators Do Not Tread: Lessons From the Greenlist Case
The enforcement environment for green marketing changed last month, not under the supervision of the Federal Trade Commission, but thanks to consumers. Followers of greenwashing cases have watched with...
View ArticleWM, DaVita Launch Dialysis Recycling Trial
Dialysis service provider DaVita Inc. and a subsidiary of recycling and refuse collection firm Waste Management are hoping to recycle 350,000 pounds of waste from kidney dialysis in a new recycling...
View ArticleNational Gypsum Installs 3.4 MW CHP Project
Recycled Energy Development and National Gypsum Company have announced the development of a natural gas-fueled, combined heat and power project at NGC’s Burlington, N.J. facility. The project, which...
View ArticleGNC Stores Switch to LED, Expect One to Two-Year Payback
General Nutrition Centers has installed energy efficient Lighting Science Group LED bulbs at its corporate-owned locations across the U.S. The Energy Star-qualified LED bulbs now lighting GNC retail...
View ArticleReal Men Don’t Do Green?
A recent study found that one of the negative and inaccurate perceptions of green is that “it is feminine and not for men.” As a business person, most definitely male and unquestionably green, I was...
View ArticleObama Launches Fuel Standards for Trucks and Buses
Big-rig trucks will be required to reduce fuel consumption by about 20 percent by model year 2018, under heavy-duty vehicle efficiency rules unveiled by President Obama today. The new rules also...
View ArticleRay Anderson, Interface Chairman and Sustainability Leader, Dies at 77
Ray Anderson, the founder of Interface, Inc. and a widely recognized leader in sustainable business, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. He was 77. Anderson was one of the most vocal...
View ArticleTrucking Industry Welcomes Fuel Efficiency Standards
Trucking industry leaders have greeted new fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles with reactions ranging from cautious optimism to hearty enthusiasm. Navistar, Cummins and the American...
View ArticleBest Buy Raises Recycling Across All Categories
Best Buy increased its U.S. recycling of electronics, appliances, cardboard and paper, plastic and metals in fiscal year 2011, according to the company’s Fiscal 2011 Sustainability Report. All five...
View ArticleDriving Sustainable Value Creation
At the CECP Summit on June 1, 2011, David Abood, Managing Director, Sustainability Services North America, Accenture, presents the research findings from a new joint report that sheds light on the...
View ArticleWhy the Slow Money Movement is Speeding Up
For most Americans, the word “slow” is anathema. When tied to “money,” the slow money movement hasn’t exactly chosen a brand that will have positive connotations to the majority of the population....
View ArticleLess Is More, Part III
Where does the material go? California is used to the concept of getting more from less. We only have to recall now Governor Jerry Brown’s comments when he was governor the first time from 1975 to 1983...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Imperial Sugar, Wetlands Fill, Gas Storage
Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division says Imperial Sugar will pay $80,000 to settle charges that the company violated state clean water standards, Georgia Public Broadcasting reported. The...
View ArticlePerdue, Maxco Cut Ribbons on Solar Arrays
Perdue, the food and agriculture business, has announced that the first phase of a 1.6 MW solar installation is now online. The Bridgeville, Del., facility consists of 6,720 solar panels. The...
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