Business Could Save $173m with Compressed Air Improvements
Air compressors present a variety of opportunities for saving energy, from leak reduction and air intake improvements, to maintenance, monitoring, specification and design, according to guidance from...
View ArticleTesco Quits Carbon Labeling
Tesco, the U.K.’s biggest retailer, has decided to stop using a carbon labeling program a few years after promising to label all 70,000 of its products. Tesco will no longer use the Carbon Trust labels...
View ArticleRange Rover Evoque and Sustainable Design
Kasia Boryczko, Sustainability Engineer for the Range Rover Evoque, explains how the Evoque demonstrates efficiencies and responsible design.
View ArticleFreight Wing Side Skirt ‘Cuts Fuel 7.45%’
Freight Wing has introduced the AeroFlex 2012, an EPA SmartWay and CARB-approved trailer side skirt that it says delivers 7.45 percent fuel savings. The update to its AeroFlex product uses the same EPA...
View ArticleLNG Ferry to Manage Energy Use with ABB Software
A cruise ferry fueled by liquefied natural gas will use ABB software to manage its energy use. STX Finland is building the NB 1376 at its Turku, Finland shipyard, and will deliver the ferry to Viking...
View ArticleAdapting to the Consequences of Climate Change
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. I don’t often disagree...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Calif. Car Standards, Dam Removal, Gulf Lease...
The California Air Resources Board has unanimously approved new emissions standards for cars and light trucks, for model years 2017 to 2025. The standard cuts greenhouse gas emissions to 166 grams per...
View ArticleIHS Makes Sustainability a ‘Measure of Success’
IHS says it has established a corporate sustainability goal that will join the company’s four other long-standing goals by which it focuses its efforts and measures its success. The analysis and...
View ArticleSC Johnson Lists Ingredients Online
Household cleaning products manufacturer SC Johnson is now listing the ingredients contained in its products and the roles they play in a newly-relaunched web site. The enhanced version of the web site...
View ArticleWhy Solar Is Down, but Not Nearly Out
In CNBC’s recent special report on “Green Winners and Losers,” I had the good fortune to write about three winners: recycling, energy efficiency and electric vehicles. In the same report, CNBC also...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Coke, Nestle Detail Climate Adaptation Plans
Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Nestle and Starbucks are among a slew of multinational companies listed in an online database just launched by the U.N. that details how the world’s major firms plan to...
View ArticlePoll: Financial Short-Termism Hitting Sustainability Drive
Financial short-termism presents a critical barrier to businesses’ transition to sustainability, according to a U.N.-backed poll by consultancies GlobeScan and SustainAbility. The latest edition of the...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Rainforest Alliance, LEED Certifications, WEEE
Hershey’s says that later this year, U.S. consumers will be able to purchase Hershey’s Bliss products with 100 percent cocoa from Rainforest Alliance-certified farms. The certification addresses...
View ArticleTrusting Science to Help Create Environmental Policy
Public policy should be based on solid scientific research and it is often presumed that when policy decisions are made, decision-makers have utilized the available scientific resources and evaluated...
View ArticleFleet Briefing: AT&T Orders 1,200 CNG Vans; Waste Management, BAE, Caterpillar
AT&T has ordered 1,200 Chevrolet Express compressed natural gas cargo vans for delivery to its service centers nationwide. General Motors says it is its largest ever order of CNG vehicles. The...
View ArticleGE Launches Micro LNG Plant
GE Oil & Gas has announced the development of a liquefied natural gas plant that it says meets the small-scale requirements of powering remote industrial and residential locations and fueling motor...
View ArticleSodexo Client Sustainability Tool Starting at 1,000 Sites this Year
Sodexo plans to roll out a sustainability dashboard to 1,000 client sites by October, to help clients establish baselines, prioritize initiatives, and track improvement. The $16 billion food and...
View ArticleCA Technologies Updates Data Center, IT Energy Software
CA Technologies has announced new and enhanced offerings in its CA ecoSoftware, designed to further extend the company’s support for data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and IT energy...
View ArticleCoke Improves Water Efficiency for 8th Straight Year
In 2010, Coca-Cola improved its water use efficiency for the eighth consecutive year, with a ratio of 2.26 liters of water per liter of product, according to its eighth systemwide sustainability...
View ArticleTop Trends in Data Center Energy Management
The way large enterprises, government agencies and managed service providers analyze and utilize energy in their data centers will undergo some fairly substantial changes over the next five years. Some...
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