Software Heavyweight Unveils New Energy Solution, with a Twist
Tom Siebel, founder of the customer relationship management software company Siebel Systems, ranks among the world’s most successful software entrepreneurs. Since 2008, he and his new company, C3,...
View ArticleObama Announces $510m for Biofuels
The Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million over the next three years to produce advanced drop-in aviation and marine biofuels to power military and commercial...
View ArticleHow Connectivity Changes Cars
Gigaom Interviews Paul Mascarenas, CTO, Ford Motor Company.
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Port Emissions, Lake Tahoe, PA Bans Clean...
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris settled with seven companies operating terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach over alleged diesel emission standards violations, the Los...
View ArticleAll CVS Locations Now Offer Disposal of Unwanted Medication
CVS has announced that all 7,200 of its locations now offer the Sharps Compliance Corp.’s Environmental Return System, which provides customers with the ability to safely dispose of unused medication....
View ArticleEnvironmental Software Briefing: Westin, Silver Spring, Freestyle, BuildingIQ
Telkonet Inc. has announced that it will install its EcoSmart Suite energy management platform at Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers’ Westin Alexandria Hotel (pictured). The EcoSmart platform will...
View ArticleIndustrial Distributed Power Could Grow by 85% in Five Years
The total capacity of industrial distributed generation is set to grow by at least 46 percent between 2011 and 2016, according to a report by Pike Research. The report, Industrial Distributed...
View ArticleRecycling Mining Tailings on Lake Superior
Imagine the “ideal” environmental success story. Perhaps it involves the removal of tons of solid waste from an otherwise pristine location, material that not only ruins the scenery but also...
View ArticleCowboys Home Games Go Wind-Powered
The Dallas Cowboys will buy enough renewable energy to power the stadium on game days, the team has announced. The football franchise has signed an agreement with Reliant Energy that makes the company...
View ArticleAir Products Fuels Cars with Hydrogen from Wastewater
Specialty gas company Air Products has opened a hydrogen fueling station (pictured) that draws feedstock from municipal wastewater. In addition to providing hydrogen, the process, taking place at the...
View ArticleGE, Dow, Goldman Launch ‘Unprecendented’ Water Mapping Project
Dow Chemical, Talisman Energy, GE and United Technologies are among the members of an alliance, launched yesterday, which aims to provide companies with an unprecedented level of detail on global water...
View ArticleCorporate Sustainability Examples From R4 Conference
Attendees at the the National R4 Conference discuss the importance of sustainability and provide examples of how their organizations are driving change.
View ArticleThales Beats Four Goals, French Water Use Down 72%
Thales beat four 2010 environmental goals, according to its latest Corporate Responsibility Annual Report – but the report did not say whether the aerospace and defense electronics company had missed...
View ArticleHigh Noon: Quality Management vs. REACH, RoHS, WEEE
Managers and companies responsible for compliance find themselves at a stand-off with today’s supply chain. The supply line is young, fresh, dynamic, exciting: bigger, faster, stronger, more. And...
View ArticleLighting Briefing: Cree, Ruud, Digital Lumens, Lunera
LED lighting firm Cree Inc. has announced the acquisition of outdoor LED lighting firm Ruud Lighting Inc. for approximately $525 million. Ruud Lighting will continue to be based in Racine, Wis., and...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Briefing: Yahoo!, Enterprise, USC, Utility Trailer, Lux
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is adding a Toyota Prius Plug-In hybrid demonstration vehicle to the WeCar auto sharing program at Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale, Calif., campus. Toyota is delivering more than 160 Prius...
View ArticleCompliance & Standards Briefing: Electric Vehicles, Smart Energy, Green Grade...
The American National Standards Institute submitted to the Department of Energy a report (pdf) outlining priority areas where standards and conformance activities are needed to facilitate the safe,...
View ArticleRegulation of Green Marketing: The State of Play in Summer 2011
In early October last year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a long-awaited draft of its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (the “Green Guides”), which provide guidance for...
View ArticleTesco Drops Biodegradable Bags
Tesco is eliminating a controversial type of additive which helped it to create biodegradable bags, according to news reports. The U.K. supermarket giant told BusinessGreen that it no longer uses...
View ArticleTruCost, FactSet Combine Environmental and Financial Data Services
Trucost and FactSet have created an integrated platform for analyzing environmental and financial risk, with pension fund CalSTRS their first high-profile customer. The two organizations say their...
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