White Rose, Ariz. Schools Install Over 9 MW of Solar
White Rose, an independent wholesale food distributor, has begun operation of a 4.88 MW roof-mounted photovoltaic system at its warehouse in Carteret, N.J. The system is operated by KDC Solar Nugen WR,...
View Article55 Airports Now in Emissions Reduction Program
Some 55 major European airports are now part of a program aimed at cutting carbon emissions, trade organization Airports Council International has announced. Airports now part of Airport Carbon...
View ArticleNorth America Lags on Supplier Emission Cuts
North American suppliers are likely to fall behind in the race to capitalize on climate change opportunities, scoring a D average on emissions performance compared to the C average for European and...
View ArticleFord to Cut Landfill Waste 70%, Water 30% in Europe
Ford’s European operations plan to cut landfill waste 70 percent and water use 30 percent under a five-year sustainability strategy. The waste reduction goal will cut the average landfill waste...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: ISO 14001, e-Stewards, R2, LEED
U.K.-based sustainable roofing provider International Construction Bureau (ICB) has earned the accreditations ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001, adding to ICB’s ISO 9001, and all three ISO cetifications were...
View ArticleIntertek, Fost Plus Launch Packaging Life-Cycle Tool
Intertek, a provider of quality and safety services to businesses, and Beligian nonprofit Fost Plus have developed a packaging life-cycle analysis tool. Pack4ecodesign offers guidelines for...
View ArticleEnvironmental Logos and Certifications for Paper, Part II
In yesterday’s post I wrote about the rationale behind eco-logos and illustrated the difference between self-generated claims and certifications. Now let’s take a closer look at claims for paper....
View ArticleLighting Briefing: Philips, Cummings Properties, Noribachi
Royal Philips Electronics saw a 70 percent increase in LED lighting sales in 2011, excluding LED chips, reports Optics.org. In the final quarter of 2011, LED-related sales were up 37 percent...
View ArticleWarm Winter Hurting Some Businesses, Boosting Others
Apparel makers and retailers, ski resort operators and natural gas producers are feeling the pinch from abnormally warm winter temperatures in the U.S., although some companies could benefit from lower...
View ArticleDemand Grows for Standardized Testing in the Ultracapacitor Industry
What are compliance standards and why do they exist? Across many industries, compliance standards have been created so buyers are assured that the products they buy comply with certain conditions that...
View ArticleHireRight Data Centers Cut Energy 45%
Employment screening products firm HireRight has improved the efficiency of its data center infrastructure and technology. The improvements increase performance by 50 percent, decrease power...
View ArticleIndustrial Energy Program Surpasses Expectations
A program to save energy at industrial facilities in the Pacific Northwest produced more than 28 average MW in verified energy savings in fiscal year 2011, according to program partner Cascade Energy....
View ArticleCarbon Tracking Declines Among Energy Firms, Survey Finds
A surprising 68 percent of energy and utility industry professionals say they have no system in place to track and report on carbon emissions, up from 58 percent last year, according to a survey by...
View ArticlePower Assure Launches Data Center Management System
Data center energy management firm Power Assure Inc., has announced an integrated data center power monitoring and analytics system that it says improves the reliability and energy-efficientcy of data...
View ArticleRenewables Briefing: Siemens and Army, Bancorp Bets on Renewables, and Wind...
Siemens Government Technologies Inc. is to build the U.S. Army’s largest solar photovoltaic system at the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. The 4.465 MW solar photovoltaic power generating...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Climate Risk, Solyndra, MATS, Clean Air Act,...
Insurance commissioners in California, New York and the state of Washington said that insurance companies must disclose disaster response and risk management plans for increasingly severe storms and...
View ArticleEcologix Launches Fracking Water Treatment System
Ecologix Environmental Systems, an Atlanta-based wastewater treatment company specializing in the oil and gas industry, has designed a mobile integrated treatment system for hydraulic fracturing that...
View ArticleTool to Ease Colleges’ Reporting for Sustainability Rankings
Starting this Wednesday, colleges and universities will have a single portal for reporting their data to some of the biggest sustainability rankings in education. The Association for the Advancement of...
View ArticleDuPont Film ‘Cuts Energy and Waste’
Appliance manufacturer Miele is among the first to use new DuPont packaging film that both saves energy and reduces waste, the companies say. The skin packaging (pictured) is based on DuPont Surlyn, a...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Host Committee Prez Talks Sustainability
Super Bowl Host Committee President Allison Melangton discusses recycling efforts at the stadium and other sustainability efforts.
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