Need for Efficiency Drives Printing Industry Toward Sustainability
When someone mentions the printing industry to you, does it bring to mind images of emissions of greenhouse gases, massive paper waste and consumption of huge amounts of energy? Today’s reality is very...
View ArticleCDP Canada 2011: Key Highlights
Carbon Disclosure Project recently released its Canada 2011 report at the Toronto Stock Exchange. More Canadian companies than ever publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions. Contrary to the...
View ArticleCornell Taps Distributed Sun for NYC Campus Proposal
Distributed Sun LLC has teamed-up with Cornell University for a proposal that, if accepted by the City of New York, would see the partners build, finance, and operate on-site renewable power for a...
View ArticleSite Matches Effluent Producers and Users; Software Analyzes Supplier Footprints
Consulting firm CH2M HILL is launching WaterMatch, a free social networking site to help industry and agriculture find source of effluent for water re-use. On the site (pictured) water users can find...
View ArticleWaste Briefing: Tim Hortons, Ford, Sonoco, Covanta
Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons has unveiled a way to recycle its hot beverage cups into take-out trays. The project, developed with the help of CKF Inc. and Scotia Recycling Limited,...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Oil Sustainability Certification, Prop. 65...
Equitable Origin on Monday announced the launch of a stakeholder-based sustainability certification for the oil and gas industry, the first of its kind, according to the company. The evaluation for...
View ArticleVestas, IBM Partner to Improve Return on Wind Power Investment
Wind power company Vestas will use IBM BigInsights analytics software and an IBM Firestorm supercomputer to improve turbine placement, increasing energy output and returns on investment, the two...
View ArticleIndustrial Scrubber Firms at War over Green Marketing
Kärcher, a manufacturer of industrial floor scrubbers, has filed two suits and one complaint over green marketing claims by U.S.-based rival Tennant, the Daily Telegraph reports. Kärcher filed civil...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente, Fujitsu Lead Green IT Rankings
Kaiser Permanente, KPMG, State Street and Allstate lead this year’s Computerworld rankings of the top green IT users, while Fujitsu, HP, Accenture and Microsoft top the list for green IT vendors and...
View ArticleAustin, Texas, Joins US’s Top Ten Renewable Energy Buyers
The recent announcement by the City of Austin, Texas, that it is now powers all of its facilities using only renewable energyhas made the municipality one of the U.S.’s top ten green power purchasers,...
View ArticleHide Sustainability in Luxury Packaging, Estee Lauder Says
Packaging for luxury products should be sustainable while being subtle about its environmental credentials, according to an executive from cosmetics firm Estee Lauder. Speaking at this year’s Luxe Pack...
View ArticleBombardier Cuts Energy, GHGs 3 Percent
Bombardier’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions each fell by three percent over FY 2011, according to the company’s 2011 CSR Overview. Energy consumption fell from 5 million to 4.86...
View ArticleHotel Chains Trump Independents on Green Policy
Chain hotels are doing a better job of going green than their independent competitors, according to a new analysis by Washington State University researchers. The study, published in the International...
View ArticleSAVE at Last
After a protracted gestation period, Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) introduced the long-awaited Sensible Accounting to Value Energy (SAVE) Act. If approved, this Act has the...
View ArticleWho Will Solve the e-Waste Collection Challenge?
Electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the US and the e-waste handlers can’t keep up. So who do they turn to for help? Paper recyclers. (Cue the super hero soundtrack).At this...
View ArticleNortheast States Unite to Build EV Infrastructure
Ten northeast states and the District of Columbia have formed the Northeast Electric Vehicle Network, to help plan for EV charging stations and infrastructure throughout the region. The network, to be...
View ArticleHow to Develop an Environmental Management System
Manuel Seidel on what it takes to develop an effective environmental management system, and how the ecoWheel framework can be used to establish a strategy.
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Airline Emissions Squabble, Wind Sector Grows,...
The House of Representatives has voted to shield U.S. passenger and cargo airlines from a European Union law that would make global carriers pay for their carbon emissions, Reuters reported. The...
View ArticleEnergy Storage Market Dynamic, But Still Immature, Pike Finds
Almost 600 energy storage projects have been announced or deployed worldwide, and such installations are gaining momentum, according to Pike Research. Pike said energy storage technologies offer the...
View ArticleRFS: Don’t Count Advanced Biofuels Out Yet
A new report from the National Academies on the Renewable Fuel Standard recapitulates the growing impatience among environmentalists that cellulosic biofuel production has not grown fast enough to meet...
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