Sustainability as Economic Game-Changer, Part III
Companies that rely on out of date, caustic economic modeling rather than engaging in embedded sustainability may find themselves limiting their future profits and positive market perception. This can...
View ArticleThyssenKrupp Launches Gearless Elevator Retrofit Package
ThyssenKrupp Elevator America has released a kit that allows traditional elevators to be refitted with energy-efficient, gearless technology, which also captures and reuses waste energy. Traditional...
View ArticleChanneling Surplus IT Promotes Sustainability
Connect to Compete, an initiative led by the FCC with help from private and non-profit organizations, gives large businesses and government agencies the opportunity to re-channel used, surplus computer...
View ArticleForest Footprint Disclosure Annual Review Shames BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Others
Forest Footprint Disclosure has criticized leading oil and gas companies including BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Valero Energy for their lack of disclosure...
View ArticleHonda Leads, Mitsubishi Trails in Toxic Interior Rankings
The Honda Civic tops the Ecology Center’s rankings of cars with the least toxic interiors, thanks to the company’s efforts to reduce PVC, while the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport comes last. Other top...
View ArticleEnvironmental Impacts Cost 41 Cents for Every $1 of Revenue, Report Finds
If companies had to pay for the full environmental costs of their activities, they would have lost 41 cents out of every dollar earned in 2010 – and these costs are doubling every 14 years, according...
View ArticleGM, Microsoft, Diageo Gave to Climate-Denier Think Tank
Microsoft, General Motors and Diageo are among the companies that have donated money to the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that denies the ongoing existence of global warming, according...
View ArticleTheo Chocolate and Sustainable Agriculture
Joseph Whinney, founder of Theo Chocolate, discusses product excellence, supporting sustainable agriculture and improving the lives of farmers and their families.
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, EU ETS, MATS,...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, an effort to reduce black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and...
View ArticleUS Foods to Develop Water-, Nitrogen-Efficient Sugarcane
U.S. Sugar Corporation and Arcadia Biosciences have signed an agreement to develop nitrogen use-efficient and water-efficient sugarcane, in a move the companies said could yield sugarcane requiring...
View ArticleLilly Sustainability Report: Scope 1,2 Emissions Fall, Scope 3 Rise
Pharmaceuticals firm Eli Lilly and Company achieved a three percent reduction in its Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 to 2010, but its Scope 3 emissions rose 11 percent over the...
View ArticleUC Installs Ten ‘Smart Labs’; Expects 20%, 2-Year Electricity Drop
The University of California – Irvine expects to cut electricity use by 20 percent from 2010 to 2012, after installing ten “smart lab” systems that cut laboratories’ energy use by 50 percent compared...
View ArticleFruit of the Loom Distribution Center Goes Landfill-Free
Fruit of the Loom’s Palmetto Distribution Center in Summerville, S.C. has gone landfill-free, up from 70 percent landfill diversion in 2010 and 95 percent in 2011. The maker of athletic wear and...
View ArticleGore Calls for Integrated Reporting, End to Quarterly Guidance
Companies should end quarterly financial reporting and start producing integrated reports, according to former vice president Al Gore and former Goldman Sachs Asset Management CEO David Blood. Blood...
View ArticleLemnis Launches $5 LED Bulb
LED lighting firm Lemnis Lighting has launched three lines of its Pharox LED bulbs, including one priced at just $4.95. Pharox BLU (pictured), Pharox XL and the Energy Star-qualified Pharox PRO are...
View ArticleThe Co-op Slashes GHG Emissions, Water Use
U.K. grocery chain the Co-operative’s ethical plan, which was launched last year, has helped reduce its operational greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent and its water consumption by 20 percent over...
View ArticleLessons from Kraft and Tesco on Making LCA Count
There have been two particularly “mediatized” stories recently in the food industry that I felt needed some reality checking. The first was the coverage of Kraft’s news that after many months and...
View ArticleEnvironmental & Energy Executive Moves: Deutsche Bank, Vestas, Sustainability...
Deutsche Bank: The company has named Thorsten Strauss as its global head of communications and CSR, effective June 1. Strauss is Bertelsmann AG’s former head of corporate communications. Michael...
View ArticleSustainability as the Prime Driver of Innovation
Dr Thomas Becker, vice president of government affairs, BMW AG, discusses sustainability as the prime driver of innovation at a February 6, 2012 Green Monday event looking at the big trends in...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: E15 Approved, Dioxin Exposure, Fracking Study,...
The EPA approved ethanol fuel blend E15 for voluntary use in all autos and light trucks built since 2001 after completing testing of E15’s impact on engine durability and auto emissions systems, writes...
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