Carbon-Neutral Banks ‘Aren’t Greener’
Banks are fooling investors and the public with false claims of carbon neutrality, according to a report from carbon data publishing site Ecodesk. In the Sustainability & Finance report, Ecodesk...
View ArticleCN Buys 200 EcoTherm Containers
Freight firm Canadian National Railway has purchased 200 super-insulated EcoTherm containers for the transport of cold-sensitive goods. The company now has a fleet of 500 EcoTherm containers. EcoTherm...
View ArticleFujitsu Discusses Sustainability Goals
Alison Rowe, Global Executive Director Sustainability for Fujitsu, interviewed about the results of the ICT Sustainability: Global Benchmark Report 2011.
View ArticleImplications of Obama’s National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship
Over the summer, the Obama Administration released its long-awaited National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship. It describes a number of activities that the federal government will take in the next...
View ArticleConsuming All but the ‘Oink’
Or, using most of what you have. When I was a graduate student in Madison in the early 70’s I had a part time job working with a small company that delivered rock salt for domestic water softeners,...
View ArticleSolar Briefing: SPI 2011 News, University of Gothenburg, Standard Solar,...
Canadian Solar has used the 2011 Solar Power International conference in Dallas to launch its Intelligrated Power module series. The Intelligrated CommercialAC is the first three-phase grid-ready AC...
View ArticlePolymer-Coated Cans Lower Energy Use; Berlin Distributes Eco.bottle
New technology is allowing for drink cans with a much lower environmental footprint, according to Packaging Europe. This year’s 2011 Can of the Year Award went to the Toyo Ultimate Can, which has a...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Ethanol Cuts, South Africa Carbon Fines, Cuba...
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) introduced an amendment to the chamber’s 2012 agriculture appropriations bill on Tuesday that would block the government from funding gas station “blender” pumps that produce...
View ArticlePew Center Reveals ‘Seven Keys’ for Green Innovation
A report by the Pew Center for Global Climate Change has detailed seven keys to fostering low-carbon innovation. According to “The Business of Innovating: Bringing Low-Carbon Solutions to Market” the...
View Article$20 Trillion Worth of Investors Call for GHG Targets
A group of 285 investors worth $20 trillion, including ABN Amro, Swiss Re, BNP Paribas, HSBC and CalPERS, have called on governments to create short-, medium- and long-term greenhouse gas targets, and...
View ArticleCDP Launches Supplier Emissions Scoring
The Carbon Disclosure Project and FirstCarbon Solutions have launched an initiative to score the CDP Supply Chain program, with performance scores introduced for the first time. FirstCarbon Solutions...
View ArticleUnilever, Shell Among 185 Companies Calling for Government Action on Climate
Shell, Unilever, Alcoa, Proctor & Gamble and Johnson and Johnson today joined 180 other companies in calling on governments to take action to keep the global rise in temperatures below two degrees...
View ArticleVirgin Atlantic’s Low Carbon Aviation Fuel
Sir Richard Branson on Virgin Atlantic’s development of a world-first low carbon aviation fuel with just half the carbon footprint of the standard fossil fuel alternative.
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Climate Registry First, New EV Standards,...
3Degrees, a San Francisco based green energy consultant, announced on Wednesday that it has become the first company in North America to be recognized by The Climate Registry. The company earned the...
View ArticleFluor Cuts Energy 10.3m kWh, But Report Short on Data
Fluor, the $20.8 billion engineering, construction, procurement and maintenance company, reduced energy use in its offices by 1.3 kWh per square foot last year, according to its 2010 sustainability...
View ArticleNoveda, Aramark to Partner on College Resource Management
Resource management specialist Noveda Technologies and facilities management firm Aramark have announced a strategic partnership aimed at developing tools to manage energy and water consumption in...
View ArticleClimate Fellowship Finds 50% Savings in AT&T Cooling
A study run by nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund has found that AT&T could save up to 50 percent on air conditioning costs by using natural cooling. Switching the communications company’s air...
View ArticleFujitsu Aims to Cut 15m Tons of Customer GHGs; Verdantix’s 5 Steps to Metric...
Fujitsu has retooled its environmental metrics to take account not only of its own emissions, but those of its customers, according to Alison Rowe, global executive director of sustainability Rowe was...
View ArticleASMC: Manufacturers Jump on Board with Sustainability
The importance of sustainability to manufacturers has rocketed over the last two years, according to a study released by the American Small Manufacturers Coalition. The 2011 Next Generation...
View ArticleSolar Briefing: Campbell’s, American Water, Trade War Kicks Off
Seven solar panel makers have filed a complaint with the Commerce Department, asking the government to impose duties on cheaper Chinese imports. The manufacturers, which included the U.S. arm of German...
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