California May Require Utilities to Store 5% of Peak Power by 2020
Legislation under consideration in California would mandate that utilities store 5 percent of their daytime peak power load by 2020, reports SmartGrid. By 2014, the bill, AB 2514, would require...
View ArticleIBM First to Eliminate PFOS and PFOA in Chip Processes
IBM has met its goal to eliminate perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) compounds from its integrated chip (IC) manufacturing processes in 2010 as part of its design for...
View ArticleRefrigerant Leak Tracking Saves Verisae Customers $15.5M a Year
With systems in place to track leaks at 500,000 refrigerant containment systems across the U.S., Verisae said it commands about 25 percent of the market. Companies are tracking refrigerant and ammonia...
View ArticleSafeway Join’s WM’s Sustainability Consortium
Safeway has become a founding member of the Sustainability Consortium, the group launched in support of Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Index. The goal of the consortium is to develop guidelines and promote...
View ArticleRoundup: Sesame Street Goes Green, Daewoo, Fairmont Hotels
China drafts 10-year plan to raise ‘clean energy’ to 15 pct of total use Baltimore Sun UK consumers driven by price, not saving CO2 Reuters Green Restaurant Assoc. sets national precedence, incentives...
View ArticleIndonesia Turns Back E-Waste Shipment from MA Recycler
Basel Action Network (BAN), an environmental watchdog organization, has accused CRT Recycling of illegally shipping cathode ray tube (CRT) computer monitors to Indonesia, reports PC World (via IDG News...
View ArticleFrom Earth to Factory, Sensors To Empower Business, Engineering
HP discusses its vision for delivering an information ecosystem that empowers people to make better, faster decisions while transforming business economics. Using sensing solutions to gather...
View ArticleBuilding Automation Market to Grow 2% in 2010
The North American building automation market is expected to grow slightly over the next few years with virtually no growth from new building construction in the office building space, according to a...
View ArticleTampa Bay Desal Plant Gets $31M For Achieving Water Goals
The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Facility is getting $31.25 million from the Southwest Florida Water Management District after achieving goals in water treatment. The funds had been promised to...
View ArticleArcelor Spurned in Court Fight Against EU Cap and Trade
Arcelor, the steelmaker that challenged the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), was spurned for a second time by the EU’s General Court, which on March 2 ruled that Arcelor’s action was...
View ArticleSouth Africa Struggles to ‘Green’ World Cup Venues
Some of the nine host cities for South Africa’s first World Cup have built new stadiums that feature natural ventilation, rain water capture and energy efficiency, but struggle with finding ways to...
View ArticleHP Leads 100 Best Corporate Citizens List
Hewlett-Packard moved up from its number five ranking in 2009, to the number one slot, on the 2010 Top 100 Best Corporate Citizens list from Corporate Responsibility Magazine. With a weighted average...
View ArticleBeyond Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Engagement
Our civilization’s central organizing project is to transform our adverse impact on the climate system. Scientists tell us that we must act now to mitigate the most severe effects of climate change;...
View ArticleFeds Taking Requests for $100M in Energy Efficiency Stimulus
The U.S. Department of Energy is injecting another $100 million into energy efficiency in buildings, electricity storage and other energy saving technologies. Energy Secretary Steven Chu on March 2...
View ArticlePuget Sound Office Building Owners in ‘Kilowatt Crackdown’ Competition
Office building owners across the Puget Sound, from Seattle to Tacoma and other points in the area, are in a competition with one another to see who can put the biggest dent into office energy use,...
View ArticleRoundup: Empire State Building, Dow, Loblaw’s
Regional Cap-And-Trade System Sees Early Successes National Journal Johnson Controls Selects Serious Materials to Upgrade Windows in Empire State Building BusinessWire Dow Plans for Billion Dollar...
View ArticleRoom for Improvement in e-Waste Recycling
The rising sales of consumer electronics in developing countries will have dire consequences on their environment and public health, according to a report from The United Nations Environment Programme,...
View ArticlePepsi Refresh Project Goes Viral
In an example of a major consumer goods company using social media to market itself via a sustainability message, PepsiCo’s Project Refresh video has garnered more than 465,000 viewings on Youtube. The...
View ArticleCorporate Fleets Expected Early Adopters of Electric Vehicles
U.S. corporate fleets purchase about 300,000 vehicles a year, and they are expected to be among the steadiest customers of electric vehicles, including cargo vans, as they come to market. Commercial...
View ArticleEPA To Take Carbon Regs Easy on All But Largest Polluters
The Environmental Protection agency has decided to put off regulating stationary sources emitting 50,000-75,000 tons of carbon emissions a year until 2013 at the earliest, reports Business Week. When...
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