Utility Asks for 15% Rate Hike; Efficiency Spend to Double
Utility Ameren Missouri is planning a 14.6 percent rate hike next year to reimburse investments in renewable energy, efficiency and reliability. The subsidiary of Ameren Corporation filed an electric...
View ArticleCarbon Disclosure Raises Stock Prices, Study Finds
Companies that voluntarily issue press releases disclosing their carbon emission information see their stock prices rise significantly in the following days, according to a University of California...
View ArticleO2 Sustainability Goals: 100% Renewables, an End to Bundled Chargers
O2 will use 100 percent renewable energy and will no longer offer chargers free with mobile phone purchases, as part of a three-year sustainability plan launched today. The Think Big Blueprint will...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: GreenScreens, Global Sustainable Tourism...
NSF International now offers chemical reviews in accordance with Clean Production Action’s (CPA) GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals program. The Greenscreen scores chemicals from one through four,...
View ArticleSolvay Unveils 1MW Nedstack Fuel Cell
Chemicals company Solvay has unveiled its 1MW fuel cell built by Nedstack. The emission-free system was installed at the Solvay’s Lillo, Belgium, facility in September 2011. After a few weeks of...
View ArticleColgate Sustainability Report: Goals Met for GHGs, Water Use, Energy, COD
Colgate-Palmolive beat goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and water use by five and 25 percent from 2002 to 2010, achieving reductions of 7.8 percent and 34.6 percent respectively, according to...
View ArticleWill Customers Pay More for ‘Green?’
Will people pay to go green? That’s a key question – maybe the question – for any company committed to sustainability. At Walmart, we’ve learned that the answer is a bit nuanced: Basically, usually not...
View ArticleCould Efficiency Help Iron out the Bumps in Ore Prices?
Many manufacturers now see raw materials as their biggest risk. Carmakers are among industries caught between volatile commodity prices and cash-strapped customers. Companies making the most of what’s...
View ArticleWin Recognition for Your College’s Environmental Program
Enviance and Environmental Leader are hosting a March Madness tournament to determine the university with the best undergraduate programs in environmental studies and sustainability. The tournament,...
View ArticleUPM to Build Major Biodiesel Refinery
Finnish paper company UPM is to build the world’s first industrial-scale plant to turn a wood byproduct into biodiesel. The Lappeenranta, Finland, biorefinery will produce annually approximately...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Bans ‘Present Hidden Environmental, Economic Costs’
Plastic bag bans incur hidden economic and environmental costs that are “virtually ignored,” according to conservative think tank the National Center for Policy Analysis. More than two dozen cities –...
View ArticleRechargeable Lawnmowers Launched
Recharge Mowers has launched a line of emission-free rechargeable lawnmowers. The Recharge Mower G2 electric rechargeable riding mower can cut up to 2 acres on a single charge and has a mulching...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Bank of England Considers Carbon Bubble,...
The governor of the Bank of England has acknowledged that there is a need for evaluation of the financial system’s exposure to high carbon and environmentally unsustainable investments, and the bank is...
View ArticleTools of the Manufacturing Trade, Part V
Software to the rescue… In part 4 of this series, I introduced the idea of the “design to production pipeline.” This was to illustrate the design to manufacturing continuum and show a strategy whereby...
View ArticleEco-mode UPS for Data Centers
Microprocessor based loads for computer hardware need high fidelity voltage for continuous fault-free operation. For more than 20 years that power quality profile has been mandated by the CBEMA curve...
View ArticleTVA Power Savings Could Come from Energy Efficient Appliances
The mass installation of such energy efficiency measures as compact fluorescent lighting and heating and cooling systems could effectively flatten Tennessee’s power demand for the next 18 years,...
View ArticleOasis Calls on Customers to Audit Its Paper Sustainability
Oasis Brands has invited leading U.S. grocery chains to audit its Indonesia-sourced tissue products, including materials sourced from Asia Pulp & Paper. In a letter to grocery retailers, Oasis...
View ArticleNike, DyeCoo In Waterless Dyeing Team-Up
Nike Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership with DyeCoo Textile Systems B.V., a Netherlands-based company that has developed and built the first commercially available waterless textile dyeing...
View ArticleMIT-Staples Study Finds Electric Delivery Trucks Cost 9-12% Less to Operate
Electric delivery trucks can cost between nine and 12 percent less to operate than their diesel cousins, according to an MIT study using data from Staples. The paper by the MIT Center for...
View ArticleGoogle Jumps to 1st Place in Cool IT Climate Rankings
Google has secured the top spot in Greenpeace’s Cool IT Leaderboard, with 53 points, up from 47 points and fourth place in the rankings’ last edition. The search giant is followed by Cisco – down from...
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