UK Food and Drink Industry Cuts Water Use 12%
A coalition of U.K. food and drink firms, including the British arms of Nestle and PepsiCo, has reduced their total water use per ton of product by 11.9 percent since 2007. The figures, contained in...
View ArticleCorporate Recycling & Waste Conference Video
Waste Recycling & News highlights from the Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference in Orlando, Florida includes a discussion about Collins Bus Corp.´s recycling efforts after the company won the...
View ArticleAdapting NASA Technologies to Environmental and Energy Applications
An often-cited example of how public spending for scientific research can yield commercial dividends is the NASA moon landing mission. The forerunners of a number of products that today are ubiquitous,...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Prop. 65 Suit, ASTM Energy Standard,...
Environmentalists have brought a large lawsuit under California’s Proposition 65 against major food and beverage companies retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores, Gerber, Dole, Safeway, and Whole Foods,...
View ArticleLED Lighting Sees Improvements with the Addition of Hybrid Capacitors
An influx of devices containing light emitting diodes, or LEDs, provides a greater opportunity for efficient and long-lasting technology in the solid-state lighting industry. Applications include...
View ArticleAlleged Honduran Murders Cause More Controversy for ETS
Carbon credits from palm oil plantations in Honduras are still for sale in the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme despite the reported murder of 23 farmers in a dispute with the plantations’ owners. The 23...
View ArticleMarks & Spencer Uses PIQET to Evaluate Packaging
Marks & Spencer has selected the Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool to help it understand the environmental impact of its food packaging. The software, designed by the Australia-based...
View ArticleVerisae’s Apollo Tackles Buildings’ Software Integration Problem
Verisae has launched Apollo, building management software which the company says will collect data from any source, reducing maintenance and energy spend by seven to 13 percent a year. Apollo is...
View ArticleNYSE Installs Serious Energy Glass
Serious Energy Inc. has installed its super-insulating SeriousGlass in the New York Stock Exchange building. The retrofit will increase the thermal performance of the stock exchange by almost 60...
View ArticleGM Earns $1bn a Year From Recycling
General Motors is making about $1 billion a year from selling scrap byproducts, waste reduction manager John Bradburn told the Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference in Orlando. The annual revenue...
View ArticleConsumers Value Environment Less than Economic Development
The environment is only the second-most important issue for companies to address, chosen by 21 percent of adults in the ten-nation 2011 Cone/Echo Global CR Opportunity Study. In the survey released...
View ArticleScope 3 GHG Reporting Standards Finalized
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol today published two standards to help businesses measure, manage and report GHG emissions beyond their own operations, including the finalized version of long-awaited scope...
View ArticleFrito-Lay Opens ‘Near Net Zero’ Facility
Snack food giant Frito-Lay has opened what the company calls a “near net zero” plant in Arizona. The “near net zero” vision was to transform an existing facility so that it would be as far “off the...
View ArticleLilly Meets Green Goals Early
Through the end of 2010 Eli Lilly and Company reduced the amount of waste sent to landfills by about 50 percent and reduced its water intake by more than 30 percent against a 2007 baseline. This means...
View ArticleCoke Virtual Panel On Collaboration, Sustainability
Following the recent launch of its new sustainability plan, Coca-Cola Enterprises hosted a virtual panel discussion entitled “Collaboration Through the Value Chain – Creating a Low Carbon Future.” The...
View ArticleLess Is More, Part VII
Maximum Flexibility with Minimum Impact This is the last in the Less Is More series. In the last posting we described the concept of an error budget as used in design of precision machines and then...
View ArticleAutomation System for Smaller Buildings Wins Funding
SCL Elements, developer of the Can2Go automation software for smaller commercial buildings, has secured $2.15 Million in Series A financing. The Westly Group led the round, with participation from...
View ArticleLocal Support May Be the Key to Success
When looking to gain public support for your renewable energy project, developing a grassroots campaign may be your best strategy. Many people seem to have a vague understanding of what a grassroots...
View ArticleAvery Dennison Cuts Energy, GHG Intensity 6% in One Year
Avery Dennison reduced both its greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, indexed to net sales, by six percent last year, according to its first Sustainability Report. Greenhouse gas emissions fell from...
View ArticleGreenbuild Briefing: Johnson Controls, Dow, Noveda, American Standard
Here is the latest news from the Greenbuild conference and expo, taking place in Toronto this week: Johnson Controls unveiled Panoptix, a building efficiency offering that combines an open technology...
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