Roundup – Green Your Business Contest, Office Depot, Chevron, Xcel, DuPont,...
Staples and Entrepreneur.com Launch Green Your Small Business Challenge Business Wire Office Depot Customers Recycle 562 Tons of E-Waste for Earth Day Business Wire Chevron offers help to clean up gulf...
View ArticleCampbell Soup Cuts Water Use by 9%, Recycles 85% of Waste
Campbell Soup Company has reduced water in food production by more than 9 percent and invested more than $6 million in environmental sustainability projects over the past year, according to the...
View ArticleIBM to Bring Smarter Transportation to Texas
IBM and university-based Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) are partnering to develop intelligent transportation projects in Texas, aimed at easing traffic congestion, which will lead to reduced...
View ArticleMarks & Spencer Converts Glass Wine Bottles to Eco-Friendly Plastic
Marks & Spencer will be the first retailer in the UK to convert its entire line of mini 25cl wine bottles from glass to environmentally-friendly polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic to meet...
View ArticleCow Manure Project to Produce 38,000 mWh of Power Annually
Manure from 250,000 cows at a dairy farm in northeast China will fuel the world’s largest cow manure-fed biogas power project, planned to open in September, reports the New York Times. The Huishan Farm...
View ArticleWho Will Pay For Oil Spill Cleanup?
The Gulf oil spill has not been contained yet but already the Obama administration has stated BP is responsible for the cleanup costs. It is not so simple. The New York Times suggests that untangling...
View ArticleNew Stores Increase CVS’ CO2 Emissions nearly 10% in 2009
CVS Caremark’s absolute carbon emissions increased by 9.5 percent in 2009 compared to 2008, according to the company’s 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility report. However, the pharmacy health-care...
View ArticleRoundup – Sustainable Differentation, Bulgaria CO2 Suspended, Ethanol Tariff
The Case for Sustainable Differentiation BusinessWeek Bulgaria suspended from CO2 emissions trading EurActiv Feds say WA plant deal not enough to reduce smog AP Venture, Clean-Tech Sectors Brace for...
View ArticlePublix Launches Sustainable Seafood Grading System
Publix is launching a new seafood grading system that will rank more than 300 seafood items from tuna steaks to frozen shrimp on sustainability and other environmental standards, reports the Miami...
View ArticleSAP, Wipro Collaborate On Sustainability Solutions
Indian IT services firm Wipro announced Friday that it has entered into an agreement with German software company SAP to work together to provide a suite of solutions that will combine SAP’s...
View ArticleWest Fraser Selects Carbonetwork’s Management Solutions
Forest products company West Fraser Timber Company has selected Carbonetworks as its supplier for performance management software for energy, greenhouse gas and sustainability solutions, according to a...
View ArticleChina Mobile’s Low Carbon Solutions Cut Emissions
The China telecommunications sector has prevented the emissions of 48.5 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2008 and 58.2 million tons in 2009 thanks to low carbon solutions such as telecommuting,...
View ArticleFord Highlights Volunteer Efforts
Ford Motor Company highlighted its volunteer efforts Friday with the announcementthat 600 company employees and retirees would spend the day working on water conservation projects in the Detroit area,...
View ArticleMass Save Contractors Complain About Preferred Vendor
Weatherization and energy efficiency contractors in Massachusetts are protesting changes to a state-wide energy efficiency program they say is sending potential customers to a preferred vendor,...
View ArticleSenate Bill Calls for 3-Year Moratorium on Discharge Permits for Commercial...
U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer, (D-CA), and Lisa Murkowski, (R-AK) have introduced a bipartisan bill (S. 3372) that extends the current moratorium on permit requirements for commercial and charter fishing...
View ArticleLibrary Lights Way Toward Sustainable Future
A recent article and Q&A published in Library Journal outlined the steps taken by Louise L. Schaper to make building operations greener and more efficient while she was director of the Fayetteville...
View ArticleAnheuser-Busch InBev Cuts Water and CO2 Emissions by nearly 9%
Anheuser-Busch InBev has reduced water use by 8.5 percent, energy use by 7 percent and CO2 emissions by 8.5 percent in 2009, all per hectoliter of production, according to the company’s 2009 Global...
View ArticleBP Roundup – Latest Effort Captures 1,000 Barrels of Leaking Oil Per Day
All efforts to contain the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico have failed until this weekend (May 15/16) when BP successfully connected a mile-long tube into the broken pipe to start capturing some of...
View ArticleRoundup – UK Solar, CVPS, Fridge-Sized Nuclear Reactors, Green Mountain
Countryside to sprout solar farms as firms cash in on subsidy scheme Times Online CVPS Switches to Biodegradable Chainsaw Oil MarketWatch Fridge-Sized Nuclear Reactors to Tap $135 Billion Power Market...
View ArticleBoeing Reduces GHG Emissions, Energy Use Slightly in 2009
Boeing has reduced carbon dioxide emissions at major U.S. facilities by 31 percent, energy consumption by 32 percent, hazardous waste generation by 38 percent and water consumption by 43 percent on a...
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