Perkins+Will, WM Launch Building Material Database, Recycling Tracker
Design firm Perkins+Will has launched a free, universally accessible database aimed at educating people on building materials that are, or are suspected of being, hazardous to human and environmental...
View ArticlePut a Price on Industrial Water Use, Report Urges Government
A federal advisory body has recommended that the Canadian government put a price on water used by industry, the Toronto Star reports. In Charting a Course, the National Round Table on the Environment...
View ArticleShifting Sustainable Practices and Preferences in Packaging
Conventional wisdom suggests that when economies are flat, consumers prioritize their time and spending on activities and goods/services that fulfill basic needs. Green behaviors, historically, are...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Climate Pact Setback, California Tailpipe...
The world’s richest countries have all but given up on a new climate treaty that would take effect this decade ahead of next month’s talks in Durban, South Africa, The Guardian reported. Government...
View ArticleCloud Computing Redefining Expectations of IT Sustainability
At the 2011 Green Initiatives Conference, Peter Coffee, vice president and head of platform research at Salesforce, and Josh Whitney, lead corporate sustainability practice at WSP Environment, discuss...
View ArticleCascades Releases Recycled, Low-Chemical Paper Towel
Paper towel producer Cascades Tissue Group has launched a highly-absorbent paper towel that can be produced using 100 percent recycled fiber and less chemicals than other absorbent tissues. The...
View ArticleCoke, MIT Machines Reward Consumers for Recycling
Coca-Cola, Kroger and MIT are all rolling out bottle recycling machines that reward consumers for their deposits. Wholly owned Coke subsidiary Coca-Cola Recycling has started up its fourth Reimagine...
View ArticleStates Abandon Carbon Market
Six U.S. states have abandoned the planned Western Climate Initiative greenhouse gas trading program leaving only California and four Canadian provinces involved in the program’s development, The...
View ArticleHigh-Efficiency Motors, Drives Can Cut 10% of Energy Spend
A medium-sized industrial company with an electricity spend of £50,000 ($78,000) could save £5,000 per year by fitting variable speed drives and higher efficiency motors, the Carbon Trust has said, as...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Green Coins, Organics Vote, LEED
The U.S. Mint announced that its West Point, N.Y., facility has been accepted in the Energy Department’s Superior Energy Performance program, just one of the steps the bureau said it is taking to...
View ArticlePhone Recycling and Environmental Sustainability
AT&T promo video about designing products with the environment in mind and using environmentally safe packaging.
View ArticleWater Bottle Filler, Mobile Market Win Chicago Innovation Awards
A bottle filling station for drinking water designed by Elkay, a construction fleet tracking system by Navman Wireless and a school bus converted into a market selling local produce are some of the...
View ArticleEcova to Buy Energy Management Firm Prenova
Ecova, a sustainability management company formerly known as AdvantageIQ, has announced that it plans to acquire Prenova, an enterprise energy management firm. Ecova plans to be the sole funder of the...
View ArticleRegulatory Definitions of ‘Nanomaterials’
In 2004, the UK Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering published perhaps the first widely respected and cited assessment of the potential health and safety, environmental, and ethical...
View ArticleGreen Building Brief: Seattle Benchmarking, Kone Elevators, Retrofit Rules
Seattle is moving into the next stage of its Building Energy Benchmarking and Reporting Program, launched in May. The city has sent letters to 8,000 owners of nonresidential buildings over 10,000 sq....
View ArticleHow Environmental Awareness Builds Business
Customers respond to sustainability practices, and businesses have reacted to that with enthusiasm over the years, if not always with sincerity. There was a time when slapping green paint on the side...
View ArticleStarbucks, Alcoa Join Nasdaq Sustainability Index; Citi, JPMorgan Dropped
Alcoa, Caterpillar, Diageo, Fluor, Ingersoll-Rand, Reed Elsevier and Starbucks have been added to the Nasdaq OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index, while Advanced Micro Devices, Citigroup, JPMorgan...
View ArticleHFC Emissions Threaten Climate, says UN
A study has demonstrated that refurbished refrigeration and air conditioning can produce 93 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than new equipment, as the UN reports that the HFCs produced by such...
View ArticleCareer Trends in Energy and the Environment
The UN has declared 2012 as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All and a growing demand for professionals within the energy and environmental sectors supports this. The Energy Context Our...
View ArticleDon’t Let the Raters and Rankers Define Your Sustainability Strategy
The proliferation of sustainability rating and ranking schemes over the last decade has impacted how global companies approach sustainability — generating both competition for recognition and scrutiny...
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