Climate Change Ad Shows Blown Up Children Who Say No to Carbon Emissions Cuts
The UK’s new 10:10 climate change ad campaign shows school children, office workers and a famous soccer player being blown up for not agreeing to cut their carbon emissions, resulting in protest from...
View ArticleXerox’s Patty Calkins Talks Sustainability With EMC’s Kathrin Winkler
A Xerox Thought Leadership Executive Exchange between Xerox Thought Leader, Patty Calkins & Sustainability expert, Kathrin Winkler of EMC.
View ArticleToxic Industrial Spill Kills Four People, Injures 120 in Hungary
Hungary has declared a state of emergency in three counties one day after a sludge reservoir at an alumina plant sent toxic red sludge spilling through their villages, killing four people, and injuring...
View ArticleCSR Communications 101: Ten Guiding Principles
What is CSR Communications? Is it cause-marketing? Is it the promotion of corporate philanthropy? Is it distributing a press release when your employees engage in a major volunteer program? Or is it...
View ArticleYahoo Tackles Fan Energy for more Efficient Data Centers
Scott Noteboom, Yahoo’s director of global data center operations, said the company is targeting fan energy as its next step to improve the efficiency of its data centers, reports Data Center...
View ArticleEnvironmental Policy Roundup – 10/6/2010
US Ecology Fined Approximately $500,000 for Hazardous Waste Violations The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday fined US Ecology $497,982 for 18 counts of hazardous waste violations. US...
View ArticleWhite House, NASA Go Solar
The White House announced plans to install solar panels and a solar hot water heater on the roof of the White House Residence. These two solar installations will be part of a Department of Energy (DOE)...
View Article39% of Americans Recycle Old Electronic Gadgets
Thirty-nine percent of Americans recycle all of their old electronic gadgets, according to a survey from Retrevo. The survey also revealed that 17 percent of respondents did not know how to recycle...
View ArticleU.S. Sustainable Business Spending to Reach $60B by 2014
The U.S. sustainable business market will double over the next four years, reaching $60 billion in 2014 up from $28 billion in 2010, according to a new report from analyst firm Verdantix. The report,...
View ArticleFTC Green Guides’ Proposed Revisions Unveiled
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed several revisions to its “Green Guides” that help companies avoid making misleading environmental claims. Some of the biggest proposed changes (PDF)...
View ArticleChili’s Touts Largest U.S. Roll-Out of LED Lamps
Chili’s Restaurant touts it is rolling out the largest U.S. installation of LED lamps, reports LEDS Magazine. The restaurant chain is in the process of installing 125,000 LED lamps for both interior...
View ArticleRoundup – Gap, TruGreen, Cape Wind
Gap Revives Denim-to-Insulation Program Fast Company Salazar Signs Cape Wind Lease, First for U.S. Waters Bloomberg Businessweek Harrison Steel leverages programs to maximize energy efforts Reliable...
View ArticleEnergy-Efficient Measures Saves Pfizer $2.6M in 2009
Pfizer has saved an average of $1.4 million annually between 2004 and 2009 by installing energy-efficient light fixtures, timers and occupancy sensors at all of its Kalamazoo, Mich., facilities,...
View ArticleWhat Nutrition Science Can Teach Us about Climate Response
Famously, Michael Pollan has offered the mantra that the key to our nutritional, agricultural, and environmental quandaries may be as fundamental as eating less while spending more on the food we do...
View ArticleAlstom, Ikerlan-IK4 Cut Development Costs for Wind Control Systems by 25%...
IBM has partnered with Alstom and Ikerlan-IK4 to develop higher performance wind turbine control systems that enable customized designs based on geographic differences and ambient environmental...
View ArticleEben Bayer Talks Up Plastics Made From Mushrooms
Eben Bayer,co-inventor of MycoBond, an organic (really — it’s based on mycelium, a living, growing organism) adhesive that turns agriwaste into a foam-like material for packaging and insulation,...
View ArticleCoverMate, Polenghi Switch to Sustainable Packaging
Players in the food industry including CoverMate and Polenghi are starting to make the switch to sustainable packaging as more consumers base their buying decisions on the eco-friendliness of the...
View ArticleWest Virginia Sues EPA over Mountain Top Mining Controls
The State of West Virginia says it is filing a lawsuit against two federal agencies that seeks to reverse the stricter controls on mountain-top coal mining adopted in 2009 by the Obama administration,...
View ArticleSunPower Cuts Carbon Intensity 10% in 2009
SunPower has submitted its first response to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which works with shareholders and businesses to disclose the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of major corporations....
View ArticlePanasonic Unveils ‘Green Plan 2018′
Panasonic has unveiled its “Green Plan 2018” environmental action plan, aimed at stepping up its efforts to meet environmental goals in time for the company’s 100th anniversary in 2018. The electronics...
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