RFS: Don’t Count Advanced Biofuels Out Yet
A new report from the National Academies on the Renewable Fuel Standard recapitulates the growing impatience among environmentalists that cellulosic biofuel production has not grown fast enough to meet...
View ArticleNVIDIA Buys Hara Energy Management Software
Visual computing firm NVIDIA is to use energy management software by Hara to track, verify and manage its energy usage and emissions. As an IT company, NVDIA’s main objectives for the product are to...
View ArticleFactory Farming Is Not the Best We Have to Offer
Over the last half-century in the US, small farms have been replaced by large, industrialized operations that treat animals and the natural world as mere commodities. This factory farming system,...
View ArticleData Loggers Offer Cheap Alternative to Meters, says Onset
When hunting hidden energy costs it is often unnecessary to invest in permanent metering, as less expensive, temporary data loggers can obtain the same information, according to a best practice guide...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Green Chemical Standard, Singapore Ecolabel,...
ANSI on Wednesday unveiled a new standard that establishes criteria for comparing chemicals and processes. The standard, NSF/GCI/ANSI 355 Greener Chemicals and Processes Information Standard, was...
View ArticleEnergy Efficiency Financing ‘Has $150bn Potential'; Report Compares...
Energy efficiency financing has the potential to jump from $20 billion to $150 billion over the next ten years, according to a report by Capital-E. Energy Efficiency Financing: Models and Strategies...
View ArticleCoke’s Sustainability Role at the 2012 Olympics
Coca-Cola discusses its activities as a sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics, and how the Games are focusing the company’s efforts to become a more sustainable business.
View ArticleNew Plants, Research Break Bounds for Concentrating Solar
Torresol Energy has opened the Gemasolar concentrating solar power (CSP) plant, the first commercial-scale plant that uses molten salt to transfer heat The array near Seville, Spain, is also the first...
View ArticleWater Woes Hit Gap, Kraft, Nestle, MillerCoors
Companies including Gap, Kraft and MillerCoors are all dealing with financial hits from water shortages and floods, according to news reports. The Gap cut its profit forecast by 22 percent after the...
View ArticleInternational Paper Announces Green Goals
International Paper has committed to use 15 percent less energy and reduce its absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020, against a 2010 baseline. The company plans to achieve these...
View ArticleChrysler Invests $35m In Emissions Cuts, Conservation
Chrysler Group invested more than $35 million toward reducing facility emissions and enhancing resource conservation in 2010, according to its first sustainability report. The group, whose brands...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Solar Zones, Ozone Hearing, Carbon Tax
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday announced a revised plan to establish solar energy zones in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, Reuters reported. The revised plan...
View ArticleCarbon Trust to Help Businesses with Green Product Selection
The Carbon Trust, a non-profit funded by the U.K. government, has launched a business aimed at helping companies reduce their energy costs and install greener, more efficient technology. Carbon Trust...
View ArticleJCPenney’s Recycled Cardboard Initiative
JCPenney gives an overview of its use of 100 percent recycled cardboard boxes for online shopping orders.
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Energy Department Probe, Arizona Copper...
President Obama has promised House Republicans investigating the government’s aid to to the now-bankrupt solar firm Solyndra that a former business executive will lead an independent probe of the...
View ArticleThinking It Through: Ecodesign in ISO 14006:2011
The famous Native American law which challenges a nation to think seven generations ahead before taking an action is known as the Great Law of the Iroquois. Under this law, it’s appropriate to imagine...
View ArticleNHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2
NHS Supply Chain, the outsourced procurement arm of the U.K.’s National Health Service, cut delivery distances from 11 million to 9.8 million miles last year, according to its annual sustainability...
View ArticleDo I Care about the Environment? You Tell Me
Consumer behaviour change. These three words seem to be appearing with increasing frequency within the conversations around sustainability in many if not most businesses today. Even if the broader...
View ArticleRecyclers Petition FTC Over Car Dealer Warranty Claims
Trade body the Automotive Recyclers Association has filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission asking the agency to keep a close eye on potentially unfair language used by auto parts dealers...
View ArticleChemical Firms Report Carbon Management Progress
Some 26 percent of major chemical companies now report top-level carbon management strategies, according to a survey by IT firm Computer Sciences Corporation and Chemical Week magazine. This figure is...
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