Standards & Compliance Briefing: LEED for Healthcare, ISO 14001, Vapor Intrusion
Group Health Cooperative’s medical office building in Puyallup, Wash., has become the first building in the nation to win LEED for Healthcare certification, USGBC says. The facility achieved Gold and...
View ArticleContract Wins: LiqTech, Ecolab, Clean Air Power, Ceco Environmental
LiqTech has received an order for its silicon carbide membranes for public pool installations in the US valued at $500,000. Provital Solutions, based in Denmark, placed the order. The SiC membranes...
View Article3 Steps to Build a Culture of Sustainability and Achieve Global Environmental...
While it’s widely expected for companies to drive sustainability outcomes by setting specific, time-bound targets, reaching goals is a unique journey for every business. Innovation, investment and...
View ArticleSmart Planet Technologies Introduces Eco-Friendly Barrier Coating
Smart Planet Technologies has announced a new coating, EarthCoating Hyper-barrier (HB40), that the company says provides a cost-effective, environmentally friendlier alternative to Polyvinilidene...
View ArticleWaitrose to Halve Packaging by 2016
Waitrose yesterday announced a goal to cut its packaging in half by 2016 compared to 2005 along with other changes to its products that the UK supermarket chain says will save about 100 metric tons of...
View ArticleAHA Drives Hospital ‘Sustainability Roadmap’
The American Hospital Association has launched a website to help managers and staff at health care organizations implement sustainability improvements at their facilities. The Sustainability Roadmap...
View ArticleWater Innovation Competition Pairs Startups, Food Companies
Imagine H2O has announced an initiative to establish pilot programs for water startups — the winners of its food and agriculture competition — with commercial growers and food processors in...
View ArticleSustainable Packaging Roundup: Novelis, Mars, Monadnock
Novelis has announced the commercial availability of what it says is the industry’s first independently certified, high-recycled content aluminum designed specifically for the beverage can market. With...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: EPA Bee Report, Post-Sandy Aid, Energy...
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR, pictured) has urged President Obama’s administration to contract for the remaining $1.5 billion in energy savings performance...
View ArticleFracking Should Up Recycled Water Use, Ceres Says
Hydraulic fracturing operations should scale up their use of recycled water and non-freshwater resources, and practice better water management planning if shale energy production is to grow as...
View ArticleThomson Reuters Launches ESG Indices
Thomson Reuters has launched a new family of environmental, social and corporate governance indices. The Thomson Reuters Corporate Responsibility Indices were developed jointly with S-Network Global...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Owner Spends $1m of His Own Money for Energy Efficiency
A McDonald’s franchise owner has built a new restaurant in Garfield Heights, Ohio, to be super energy efficient, spending about $1 million of his own money for the upgrades. Bob Jursich, the franchise...
View ArticleLightweighting Vehicles Saves Fuel, Minimizes Environmental Footprint
Glenn Daehn and Anthony Luscher from The Ohio State University discuss their lightweight metal-based vehicles research, which is funded by the Alcoa Foundation Advancing Sustainability Research...
View ArticleNew Research Validates Steel’s Advantages in the Race to 54.5 MPG
The current and pending US EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) tailpipe emissions and fuel economy standards will require a footprint-based, fleet-average fuel economy of...
View Article$8m Project Drives Bio-Based Economy
Small and medium businesses in northwest Europe can apply for Innovation Coupons worth up to €10,000 ($13,109) each to help them assess the feasibility of taking a bio-based idea or technology to...
View ArticleTemperature Simulator Saves Food Companies Money
National Energy Technologies has released an Eco Cube for refrigeration that the company says can cut energy use between 10 and 20 percent and save businesses money on food and beverage preservation by...
View ArticleNike, Disney Inaugural Partners of Otis Sustainability Alliance
Eddie Bauer, Disney, Nike, Patagonia, Quiksilver and Todd Oldham are the first apparel brands to join the Otis Sustainability Alliance, a partnership between the fashion industry and higher education...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: BYD, GE, Virgin, SkyNRG, Alcoa
BYD will begin making electric buses (pictured) and large-scale batteries at two manufacturing facilities in Lancaster, Calif., the company says. These mark the first manufacturing facilities in the US...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Bonn Climate Talks, Water Act, Dam Protest
Delegates from 160 nations agreed in Bonn that a successor to the Kyoto Protocol should allow emissions targets to be tightened without further negotiations, if researchers find that floods, droughts...
View ArticleAvoid These Costly CSR Mistakes
Corporate sustainability reporting — when done right — increases share price and bolsters stakeholder confidence. When done incorrectly, however, CSR reporting does more harm than good, a Network for...
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