Companies Lured with 45% Electricity Discount
Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s biggest power producer, is offering discounts as high as 45 percent to businesses moving to or expanding in the state – but the deal may not help existing customers such...
View ArticleZero-Waste Phenomenon Grows, as Kraft Hits Milestone
Kraft has 36 facilities in 13 countries that send zero waste to landfills, the company has announced, the latest in a string of “zero waste” announcements from multinational companies. The food company...
View ArticleOracle VP Urges Event Organizers to Take Action
The event industry is the second-biggest generator of waste in the U.S. and event organizers must make a start, however small, to address their environmental impacts, according to the vice president of...
View ArticleGreen Bay Packaging Discusses Sustainability Efforts
In the fall of 2011, RMI in partnership with Baltimore County’s Office of Sustainability, under a U.S. Department of Energy Grant, launched an energy conservation initiative to help manufacturers...
View ArticleEnsave, Ecology and Environment Launch Farm Energy Audits
EnSave and partner Ecology and Environment have launched an audit service for farm energy uses including tillage, harvesting, and waste management. The Landscape Agricultural Energy Management Plan...
View ArticleWhy Third-Party Certifications Have Gained Traction
Arguably Shakespeare’s most recognizable character, Juliet Capulet, captures the play’s central theme and struggle in one simple line after asking her beloved Romeo Montague, “What is in a name?” “That...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: CARB Diesel Vehicles, China vs. EU ETS, Mexico...
California’s On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation has shifted the reporting date to March 30, 2012, for most privately and federally owned diesel fueled trucks and buses with a gross...
View ArticleSempra, Xcel Lead Utility Sustainability Index
Sempra, Xcel Energy, PG&E, Edison International and Avista top a new sustainability ranking and set of stock indices for U.S. utilities, compiled by Target Rock Advisors. The advisory group says...
View ArticleAccor Lifecycle Analysis: Only 13% of Water Use Occurs On-Site
Accor’s main water impacts come food production, in one surprising finding from the hotel company’s lifecycle analysis of its environmental footprint. The Earth Guest Research report, carried out...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: FY 2013 Budget, ITC Wind Tower Decision, PVC...
President Obama has proposed his FY 2013 budget, whose measures include the cancellation of $4 billion a year in oil and gas tax breaks and an extension for the Section 1603 tax credit, which covers up...
View ArticleFor Explosive Growth in Solar Energy Industry, Prices Must Come Down
I was delighted when someone sent me this Time Science piece on The Coming US-China Solar War because it finally lays bare the conflicting arithmetic confronting the US solar industry — arithmetic that...
View ArticleHBO, LIPA Team Up for Efficiency Upgrade
Long Island Power Authority is helping Home Box Office fund and install energy efficiency measures in an expansion of an existing communications center that should save the TV company 1,300,000 kWh in...
View ArticleSix Lesser-Known Climate Facts
Climate change seems to have taken a back seat lately both in policy debates and business strategies. But this is generally not the case in the research community, where rigorous analyses of climate...
View ArticleE&Y: Global Carbon Plan Unlikely Soon
Businesses should not hold their breath waiting for an international agreement on climate change, according to a report by Ernst & Young. After the failure of the Durban conference to commit the...
View ArticleUS Foods to Go 85% Solar in NYC Area; Cox Installs Fuel Cells
US Foods has announced that nearly 85 percent of its New York City area division’s annual energy will come from solar power by July 2012. The installation of rooftop solar panels at the warehouse in...
View ArticleUnilever ‘Green’ Freezers Cut Energy Use 10%
Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company, Unilever, are starting the U.S. roll-out of ice cream freezer cabinets that are expected to use at least 10 percent less energy. The company said the freezer...
View Article3,000 Companies Expelled from UN Global Compact in 7 Years
Real estate company Georgetown Green, support services firm Kent Global Security and office furniture supplier Humanscale are the latest U.S. firms to be expelled from the U.N. Global Compact, as the...
View ArticleUN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability
Final report of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability. Speakers: – Connie Hedegaard, Member of the EC in charge of Climate Action – Brice Lalonde, Executive Coordinator...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Transatlantic Organic, Lighting Troffers,...
Food products classified as organic in the European Union or the United States can be sold as such in either region. The agreement, which seeks to boost trade in the organic food industry, valued at...
View ArticleU.S. Bank Taps Eco2Go for Recycling
U.S. Bank is expanding its recycling program, and in the process, has been the impetus for the launch of Eco2Go Recycling Solutions LLC, an Ohio business that aims to provide a cost-effective recycling...
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