Henkel Sustainability Report: Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions Drop 9%...
Henkel, the company behind Dial, Purex, Right Guard and other personal care brands, reduced its energy consumption by over nine percent from 2010 to 2011, according to the company’s 2011 sustainability...
View ArticlePentair Electronic Purification System ‘Cuts Wastewater 90%’
Pentair says its latest electronic water-purification system can provide retail, car washes and laboratories with safe, soft, bottled-quality water, with 90 percent less wastewater than other systems....
View ArticleOver 90 Universities Curbing Bottled Water Sales; Borealis, BioMass Launch...
Brown, Harvard, the University of Vermont and about 90 other educational institutes are banning sales or restricting use of plastic water bottles due to student activism or administrations’ sustainable...
View ArticleBridgestone Targets Guayule Shrub as Rubber Source
Bridgestone Group is to conduct research dedicated to developing the guayule shrub as a commercially viable, renewable source of high-quality natural rubber for the company’s tires. If successful,...
View ArticleFracking Industry May Lack Will to Avoid Environmental Impacts, Report Finds
The natural gas industry is technologically capable of tapping shale gas resources, but some companies may have trouble managing the environmental and social risks involved, according to a report by...
View ArticleEfficiency Standards to Save Businesses, Consumers Over $1.1t by 2035, ACEEE...
Appliance, equipment, and lighting standards will save businesses and consumers more than $1.1 trillion by 2035, while cutting greenhouse gases and other emissions, according to a study by the American...
View ArticleAirbus ‘Could Lose Chinese Business’ Due to European Carbon Rules
Airbus’ parent company has warned that it stands to lose Chinese business if the European Commission ignores protests from airlines about its European emissions trading scheme, Fox Business reports....
View ArticleSustainability’s Role in Industry and Commerce
Jeff Malakoff, Managing Director at ecoMarkets Advisory Services, discusses sustainability and its role in industry and commerce in a CFO Studio Interview with Greg Libertiny.
View ArticleLighting Brief: Amerlux, Lighting Science, Acuity Brands, Blue Phoenix
Amerlux has released its second generation of Evoke 2.9 G2 LED downlights in round and square profiles for retail, commercial and residential applications. The luminaires are offered in round, square,...
View ArticleDemystifying Green Real Estate Development
If you’re like most small- to mid-size real estate developers, the idea of going green and sustainable is intriguing, almost sexy at times. But then a fear begins to grow like algae in the back of your...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Poland Veto, World Water Forum, NRC Safety...
Coal-reliant Poland vetoed a European Union roadmap for cutting the bloc’s carbon emissions by 80 percent by mid-century. All 26 other EU countries supported the plan, and climate commissioner Connie...
View ArticleAECOM Launches Costing Software for Remediation Projects
Aecom has released the newest version of its Remedial Action Cost Engineering and Requirements, or Racer, software – a cost-estimating program developed for environmental remediation and restoration...
View ArticleSCA Sustainability Goals: 5 TWh Wind by 2020, Tripling of Biofuel Production
SCA, the world’s third-largest paper company, is aiming to produce 5 TWh of windpower on its forest land by 2020, according to the firm’s latest set of sustainability goals. Other goals include...
View ArticleBehaviors, Not Words, Will Determine a Sustainable Future
I have spent a lot of time explaining myself this week. Explaining what I mean by sustainability, explaining what I mean by diversity, explaining what I mean by the difference between mitigation and...
View ArticleSustainable 16 Colleges Tip Off in March Madness Competition
The Sustainable 16, a group of sixteen colleges and universities that demonstrate excellence in environmental academics, has been named in the first-ever Enviance, Inc. and Environmental Leader March...
View ArticleMicrosoft Taps CarbonSystems for Global Environmental Reporting
Microsoft has adopted software provider CarbonSystems’ cloud-based Environmental Sustainability Platform as its global standard for managing its energy efficiency and environmental performance...
View ArticleGRI Releases Sustainability Taxonomy, Public Comments on G4
The Global Reporting Initiative has released a taxonomy for tagging sustainability data in reports and has released the results of the first public comment period on the development of G4, its future...
View ArticleLatin America’s Largest Wind Farm to Power Coke, Heineken Production
Heineken beer and Coca-Cola are among the products that look set to be produced using power from Latin America’s largest wind energy project. Danish turbine producer Vestas received a 396 MW order for...
View ArticleHow All Professional Roles Contribute to Sustainability
In my last article, I wrote about how environmental sustainability can relate to any educational background or functional group in a company. One of my colleagues asked how he could contribute to the...
View ArticleL’Oreal Funds $1.2m Animal-Free Toxicology Research with EPA’s ToxCast
The EPA and L’Oreal have announced a $1.2 million research collaboration designed to determine if the agency’s chemical toxicity forecaster, ToxCast, can be used in systemic toxicity tests. L’Oréal is...
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