Marfrig Group’s First Scope 3 Inventory Finds 95 Percent of Global Emissions
Brazil-based global food processor Marfrig Group has completed its first Scope 3 GHG emissions inventory, concluding that some 95 percent of its global emissions are generated within Scope 3. The...
View ArticleMidwest Drought Squeezes ADM, Cargill, Other Food Producers
A worsening drought in the Midwest has pushed corn prices to a record high, forcing meat producers to pay more for feed and squeezing profits of grain traders Cargill as well as agribusiness giant and...
View ArticleEIA: US CO2 Emissions at 20-Year Low
US carbon dioxide emissions resulting from energy use during the first quarter of 2012 were the lowest in two decades for any January-March period, according to US Energy Information Administration...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Shipping Emissions, Drought Relief, Wind...
Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes nine items. Environmental regulation requiring ships to use...
View ArticleContract Wins: Amyris, Itron, Noresco, Landis+Gyr, Eaton, Foster Wheeler
Advanced microbial engineering company Amyris has expanded an existing technology collaboration agreement with Total for production of renewable diesel and jet fuel. Total agreed to provide $30 million...
View ArticleDarden Sustainability Report: Restaurant Energy Use Drops 2.3%
Darden, which runs restaurant chains including Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and Red Lobster, cut its average energy use per restaurant by 2.3 percent from 2010 to 2011, according to the company’s...
View ArticleAlternative Fuels for Govenment Deliveries ‘Could Save $25bn by 2025′
By allocating just 20 percent of its $150 billion transportation services budget to carriers that fuel their fleets with domestically produced natural gas, electricity, biofuels and other alternatives...
View ArticleCarbon Trust, Credit360 to Offer Value Chain Carbon Footprint Software
The Carbon Trust and Credit360 are developing a carbon management software system designed to let companies track and manage value chain emissions. The partnership’s first product, the “Value Chain...
View ArticleSafety Board Probes Boeing Dreamliner Engine Failure
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an engine failure that occurred on a high fuel-efficiency Boeing 787 Dreamliner during a taxi test last weekend in Charleston, S.C., Industry...
View ArticleCosta Cruises to Reduce, Reuse Three Waste Streams in Pilot Project
Italian travel group Costa Cruises has implemented a waste reduction, recycling collection and reuse pilot program on its Costa Pacifica ship as part of the Sustainable Cruise project. The project,...
View ArticleInterface Sustainability Results: Energy Intensity Drops 6%, Landfilling 28%
Carpet company Interface’s non-renewable energy intensity for its manufacturing operations dropped around 6 percent from 2010 to 2011, from 10,944 to about 10,222 BTUs of non-renewable energy per...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Biofuels Producers Coordinating Council,...
Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 7 items. Eight biofuels groups are forming a coalition, the...
View ArticleEV Project Offers Free Blink Chargers to Commercial Sites in Three Cities
Clean electric transportation and storage technologies provider ECOtality said that it will offer its Blink smart charging stations free to commercial host sites and residents of Chicago, Atlanta and...
View ArticleUL Environment Buys GoodGuide
UL Environment, a business unit of product safety certification organization Underwriters Laboratories, has announced the acquisition of GoodGuide, one of the world’s largest sources of information on...
View ArticleSainsbury’s Builds Out Largest Solar Capacity in Europe
Sainsbury’s has completed installation of 69,500 PV solar panels, or 16 MW of power, across 169 stores in the UK. With this investment, the supermarket says its rooftops collectively host the largest...
View ArticleReport: Cities Identify Potential Economic Growth from Climate Change...
I was privileged to be engaged in AECOM’s partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) to develop its second Global Cities Report (AECOM partnered with CDP to analyze the data and design of the...
View ArticleSocial Impacts in Sustainability
At the end of my last article, I was starting to make a connection between resiliency and some of the societal dimensions of sustainability. As we start looking into some of the less technical aspects,...
View ArticlePTC Extension Deadline Still Looms: What You Need to Know
The majority of wind industry professionals agree that the wind market is finally reaching a point of maturity. The market is no longer divided by regions, as the standards implemented have helped the...
View ArticleSustainability and Organizational Development
In order to reduce expenses and become more environmentally sustainable, a distilling company decided to reduce the glass thickness in some of its bottles and to replace it with plastic in others....
View ArticleIowa Cold Storage Taps SmartWatt for Retrofit
Iowa Cold Storage, a Midwest-based provider of temperature-controlled warehousing, logistics, and transportation for food products, is saving more than $30,000 per year in total lighting costs...
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