Maines Slashes Lighting Energy Use 87%
Maines Paper & Food Service has cut its lighting-related energy use by 87 percent thanks to the installation of Digital Lumens’ Intelligent Lighting System in its 460,000-square-foot headquarters...
View ArticleJones Lang LaSalle Discusses Green Globes Assessment Tool
Bob Best, director of Sustainability Investors Services for Jones Lang LaSalle, provides an overview of Green Globes, an online sustainability guidance and assessment tool that can help owners and...
View ArticleBMO Meets Carbon Neutral Commitment
BMO Financial Group has achieved carbon neutrality relative to its energy consumption and transportation emissions across the company, meeting its commitment set by the bank in 2008, thanks to changes...
View ArticleArch Coal Taps Enviance for Compliance Data Management
Arch Coal, the second largest U.S. coal producer, has selected Enviance as its enterprise solution to measure and report compliance data for water discharge management. The solution also will help the...
View ArticleRoyal Caribbean Stewardship Report: Fuel Use Down 3.7%
Royal Caribbean’s ships reduced fuel consumption by 3.7 percent per available passenger cruise day (APCD) in 2009 over 2008 levels, exceeding its 2 percent reduction goal by 85 percent, according to...
View ArticleFord, PGE Readies the City of Portland for EVs
Ford Motor Company and Portland General Electric are working together to help prepare the city of Portland and the Pacific Northwest for electric vehicles. Under the partnership, Ford and PGE will...
View ArticleU.S. Energy Use Fell 4.5% in 2009
Americans are using less energy overall and making more use of renewable energy resources, according to a report released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). According to the report,...
View ArticleGoing Carbon Neutral: Does It Pay?
There is a growing trend among businesses to measure, report and neutralize the carbon footprint of their products. The first step to carbon neutrality is a product life-cycle assessment (LCA). This...
View ArticleRoundup – Orion Energy, California, New York
California to Launch Next-Generation Feed-in Tariff for Solar Energy Businesswire Canada Insists Oil-Rich Tar Sands Are Sustainable Triple Pundit Brown Files Charges Against Sham Electronic Waste...
View ArticleDuke Energy Center, Iowa College Top Siemens’ Smartest Buildings in America...
Duke Energy Center, Charlotte, N.C., and the Iowa Central Community College, Fort Dodge, Iowa, were named the Grand Prize winners of Siemens Industry’s inaugural Smartest Buildings in America...
View ArticleCalifornia Approves Large-Scale Solar Thermal Plant
After a two-and-half year environmental review, California regulators have approved a license for the 250-megawatt Beacon Solar Energy Project, reports The New York Times. The project is said to be the...
View ArticleSony Ericsson Elm Tops Mobile Phone Eco Rating
The Sony Ericsson Elm phone has topped the UK’s first sustainable rating system for mobile phones with 4.3 out of 5 points for its ‘green’ credentials. The Sony Ericsson Elm phone is part of Sony...
View ArticleNextEra Energy Sustainability Report: CO2 Emissions Down 33%
NextEra Energy has reduced its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 33 percent over the past decade due to significant investments in low- and no-carbon power generation, according to the company’s 2010...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines, GE to Debut First U.S. Commercial Instrument Flight Path
American Airlines and GE is debuting its inaugural flight today (August 26) using the first U.S. commercially designed instrument flight path, which is expected to significantly cut aircraft CO2...
View ArticleUCS Creates U.S. Roadmap for Cleaner Biofuels
The U.S. set a goal to obtain one billion gallons of home-grown fuel from corn stalks, wood chips and other non-edible waste by 2013 and 16 billion gallons by 2022, under the 2007 renewable fuel...
View ArticleEPA Bans Big Ships from Dumping Sewage Near California Coast
Cruise ships and large commercial vessels will be banned from dumping any kind of sewage – even highly filtered wastewater — along California’s coast within three miles of shore, under new rules by the...
View ArticleDeere Quits USCAP
Deere & Co. dropped out of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) in May, which has supported a cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions, reports The Wall Street Journal....
View ArticleMethane Digester Delivers 750 kW Electricity at Holsum
Kirk Van Dussen, manager at one of Holsum Dairy farms, discusses the dairy’s use of an anaerobic methane digester to recycle, reduce and reuse waste products produced by its cows. The methane digester...
View ArticleCoal Waste Contaminates More Water than Initial Estimates
More U.S. coal-waste disposal sites have contaminated drinking or surface water with arsenic and other heavy metals, according to a study by Earthjustice, the Environmental Integrity Project and the...
View ArticleShell Tests Process for Speedier Oil Sands Clean-Up
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has started a demonstration project to test a new method of speeding up reclamation of toxic waste ponds at oil sands operations, reports Reuters. Shell, which operates the...
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