Initiative Could Require Businesses to Reveal Environmental Impact
New rules under discussion with accounting standards organizations could require businesses to publish their environmental and social impacts together with their financial disclosures, reports The...
View Article77% of Gov Agencies Virtualizing
Seventy-seven percent of government agencies at Federal, state, and local levels are implementing at least some form of virtualization, including server, storage and client virtualization, according to...
View ArticleGreenwashing: How to Avoid the Typical Marketing Traps
“Greenwashing” typically refers to marketing and advertising claims that are based on environmental puffery rather than performance. Experience indicates that many claims, even those from sophisticated...
View ArticleRoundup – Toyota, HSBC, Empire State
Toyota to launch green-car barrage in 2012 CNet HSBC Drops Indonesian Palm Oil After Illegal Deforestation Report Triple Pundit Empire State Building goes green, one window at a time USA Today USPS...
View ArticleVA Gov Denies Lifting Bottle Ban For Industry
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell denied that he lifted a ban on the state government purchasing bottled water at the behest of friends in the bottled water industry, according to a report in the Washington...
View ArticleGreen Bay Plant Goes ‘Zero Landfill’
The maker of Wet-Nap towelettes has announced its Green Bay, Wis. Manufacturing plant will no longer send most of its industrial waste into landfills. Instead, it is converting 1,200 – 1,500 tons of...
View ArticleLA AFB Getting Solar Retrofit
The Los Angeles Air Force Base (AFB) is getting a $2.1 million solar photovoltaic retrofit, according to a report on Air Force Space Command. The installation of the photovoltaic panels is the first...
View ArticleGE Generates 625 kW With Cow Waste
General Electric announced that it has finished testing a biogas cogeneration plant powered by the manure produced by 4,000 cows for a dairy in the Ukraine, the first such facility in the Eastern...
View ArticleAPT Selects FirstCarbon for GHG Reporting
Associated Packaging Technologies (APT) announced it has selected FirstCarbon Solutions to help it create an inventory of its carbon footprint and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the...
View ArticleMcWane to Pay $4M Penalty for more than 400 Environmental Violations
McWane Inc. has agreed to pay a $4 million penalty to resolve more than 400 federal and state environmental law violations at 28 manufacturing facilities across 14 states, reports the U.S....
View ArticleMore Layoffs for Carbon Brokers in London
The European carbon emissions permit trading space continues to shrink as more layoffs of carbon brokers continue in London due to the recession and not enough demand for carbon credits, reports...
View ArticleIndustrial Firms in Rich Countries Profit from Carbon Offsets
The European Union’s policy for carbon offsets is providing higher profits to industrial companies in rich countries and needs to be updated to deliver clean technology in developing countries,...
View ArticleCommercial Buildings Guzzle 37% of CA’s Energy
Commercial buildings are responsible for 37 percent of California’s energy needs, according to a new report by Next 10. The findings suggest a new, untapped resource for reducing the state’s energy...
View ArticleRoundup – Multi Packaging, GM, Long Island
Energy Bill May Cut Power-Plant Pollution, Reid Says Businessweek Liverpool Gets U.K.’s First Sustainable Palm Oil Plant Washington Post Multi Packaging Solutions Gets Greener with Move to Sustainable...
View ArticlePartnerships that Improve Corporate Responsibility
Responsible business leaders understand the strategic importance of continually improving the sustainability profile of their business. Balancing environmental performance, social responsibility and...
View ArticleNetApp First Data Center to Earn Energy Star for Superior Energy Efficiency
NetApp’s data center at its technology center in Research Triangle Park (RTP), N.C., has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star for superior energy efficiency. The RTP data...
View ArticleGov Contractors Must Track Emissions or Risk Losing Contracts
Contractors for the federal government that do not track their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could risk losing their contracts, according to a report in the Federal Times about new rules by the...
View ArticleCA Sues FHFA Over Efficiency Program
The state of California announced Wednesday that it would sue two quasi-government agencies over their decision not to purchase mortgages from participants in the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)...
View ArticleNorland Chooses CloudApps for Carbon Management
Norland, a British facilities services provider, announced it has chosen CloudApps for its carbon management software, according to a company press release. Norland said it will use CloudApps Carbon to...
View ArticleSan Jose State Saving $300,000 After Retrofit
San Jose State is saving $300,000 a year on electricity costs after a lighting retrofit project reduced energy consumption at one of its buildings by 22 percent, according to a press release. The...
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