Cable Industry Launches Efficiency Drive
The U.S. cable industry has launched an initiative aimed at improving the energy efficiency of consumer set-top boxes and cable-related services, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association...
View ArticleTotal Energy Costs ‘Far Exceed Utility and Fuel Spend’
The total cost of ownership related to energy is often 150 to 200 percent of a company’s commodities spend, and offers a savings potential of between five and 20 percent of operating profit, according...
View ArticleStates Abandon Carbon Market
Six U.S. states have abandoned the planned Western Climate Initiative greenhouse gas trading program leaving only California and four Canadian provinces involved in the program’s development, The...
View ArticleHigh-Efficiency Motors, Drives Can Cut 10% of Energy Spend
A medium-sized industrial company with an electricity spend of £50,000 ($78,000) could save £5,000 per year by fitting variable speed drives and higher efficiency motors, the Carbon Trust has said, as...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Green Coins, Organics Vote, LEED
The U.S. Mint announced that its West Point, N.Y., facility has been accepted in the Energy Department’s Superior Energy Performance program, just one of the steps the bureau said it is taking to...
View ArticlePhone Recycling and Environmental Sustainability
AT&T promo video about designing products with the environment in mind and using environmentally safe packaging.
View ArticleWater Bottle Filler, Mobile Market Win Chicago Innovation Awards
A bottle filling station for drinking water designed by Elkay, a construction fleet tracking system by Navman Wireless and a school bus converted into a market selling local produce are some of the...
View ArticleEcova to Buy Energy Management Firm Prenova
Ecova, a sustainability management company formerly known as AdvantageIQ, has announced that it plans to acquire Prenova, an enterprise energy management firm. Ecova plans to be the sole funder of the...
View ArticleRegulatory Definitions of ‘Nanomaterials’
In 2004, the UK Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering published perhaps the first widely respected and cited assessment of the potential health and safety, environmental, and ethical...
View ArticleGreen Building Brief: Seattle Benchmarking, Kone Elevators, Retrofit Rules
Seattle is moving into the next stage of its Building Energy Benchmarking and Reporting Program, launched in May. The city has sent letters to 8,000 owners of nonresidential buildings over 10,000 sq....
View ArticleHow Environmental Awareness Builds Business
Customers respond to sustainability practices, and businesses have reacted to that with enthusiasm over the years, if not always with sincerity. There was a time when slapping green paint on the side...
View ArticleStarbucks, Alcoa Join Nasdaq Sustainability Index; Citi, JPMorgan Dropped
Alcoa, Caterpillar, Diageo, Fluor, Ingersoll-Rand, Reed Elsevier and Starbucks have been added to the Nasdaq OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index, while Advanced Micro Devices, Citigroup, JPMorgan...
View ArticleHFC Emissions Threaten Climate, says UN
A study has demonstrated that refurbished refrigeration and air conditioning can produce 93 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than new equipment, as the UN reports that the HFCs produced by such...
View ArticleCareer Trends in Energy and the Environment
The UN has declared 2012 as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All and a growing demand for professionals within the energy and environmental sectors supports this. The Energy Context Our...
View ArticleDon’t Let the Raters and Rankers Define Your Sustainability Strategy
The proliferation of sustainability rating and ranking schemes over the last decade has impacted how global companies approach sustainability — generating both competition for recognition and scrutiny...
View ArticleAnalyst: U.S. Tariffs, Solar Price Rises ‘Likely’
As the Chinese solar power industry considers filing a retaliatory trade case against the U.S., IDC research manager in renewable energy Jay Holman said American companies’ actions against China were...
View ArticleOxford Instruments Releases Handheld Material Analyser
Technology firm Oxford Instruments has launched the X-MET7000, a hand-held XRF analyser for materials analysis and screening. The product is designed for those requiring analysis across a number of...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: More EPA Delays, Solar Trade Dispute, Chevron...
The EPA said it will delay proposing the country’s first-ever greenhouse gas limits on oil refineries, the latest setback for the agency that has struggled to fulfill its ambitious clean air agenda,...
View ArticleTaking a Value Approach to Sustainability
At the 2011 Green Initiatives Conference Jim Weinbauer, vice president, director of sustainability at AECOM, bringing avalue approach to a sustainability business opportunity mindset.
View ArticleDOE Cuts Scope 1 and 2 GHGs 13% in Two Years
The Department of Energy reduced its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent from its FY 2008 baseline of 4.6 million mTCO2e, to 4 mT in FY 2010, putting it on course to beat its target of...
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