Supermarket Chains Fail HFCs Survey
Major supermarkets chains in the US including Walmart and Whole Foods continue to use hydroflourocarbons, gaseous compounds used in refrigerants and a major source of greenhouse gas emissions more...
View ArticleTop Corporate Environmental Projects of the Year
This year, the Environmental Leader Product & Project Awards have been opened for corporations to submit projects they have implemented that helped improve sustainability metrics (or for...
View ArticleConservation as a Mindset
The beginning of October held an interesting week of extremes, replete with the full spectrum of emotions and events that make this very small world go round. The week began with a distressing reminder...
View ArticleUS Solar Patents Outpace Fuel Cells for First Time
The second quarter of 2013 saw US solar patents outnumber fuel cell patents for the first time, according to research by Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti. The number of solar patents jumped 29 to...
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson Launches Tumblr Recycling Campaign
Only one in five Americans consistently recycles bathroom items — compared to seven out of 10 who say they always or almost always recycle — according to a report commissioned by the Johnson &...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Water Act, RFS Suit Looms, Kauai GMO Bill
The House will take up the Water Resources Reform and Development Act next week, according to a statement by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). The Senate passed the act in May. The American Petroleum...
View ArticleNestlé Makes Zero Waste Pledge For All Europe Factories
Nestlé says all 150 of its European factories will be zero waste by 2020, a commitment that will prevent the food products company from burning or throwing anything in the landfill unless energy can be...
View ArticleContract Wins: Imtech, GE, Xylem, Abtech
Engineering delivery firm Imtech Process and engineering and project management consultancy Royal Haskoning DHV have signed a cooperation agreement for the delivery of the Nereda technology for...
View ArticleHow to Impress Your CFO
Getting a CFO to agree to energy efficiency projects is not as easy as just “showing him the money,” as two recent commentaries attest. As Susan Clarke from Verdantix writes in the latest issue of EL...
View ArticleSweet Recycling: Chocolate Wrapped in Chocolate Waste
James Cropper has developed a recycling process that the UK paper manufacturer says could save the skins of many of the 3.5 million metric tons of cocoa beans produced each year by turning the waste...
View ArticleOffice Depot Sustainability Report: Big on Data, Short on Words
Office Depot’s North American operations reduced their carbon intensity by nine percent last year, from 17.1 lbs CO2e per square ft in 2011 to 15.5 in 2012, according to its 2013 corporate citizenship...
View ArticleGenomatica Technology Shrinks Eco Footprint of Electronics, Shoes, Packaging
DSM has tested and confirmed that bio-based BDO (1,4-butanediol) made with Genomatica’s process shows equivalent performance as fossil-based BDO. DSM plans to use BDO made with Genomatica’s bio-based...
View ArticleLightweighting Is Auto Industry’s ‘Best Bet to Achieve CAFE Standard’
Lightweighting is the automotive industry’s best bet to achieve the 2025 corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard, according to Chuck Evans, corporate vice president at Henkel’s automotive group....
View ArticleJohn Revess on Rexam’s Sustainability Journey
Bill Bruce talks to Rexam’s John Revess about the company’s sustainability journey. The interview took place at Drinktec 2013 in Munich, Germany.
View ArticleEnergy Management Vendors Court Utilities
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) and Portland Energy Conservation (PECI) documented energy management and information systems (EMIS) features that could support future utility programs...
View ArticleSustainability by Design and Flourishing
Keynote speech by Dr John Ehrenfeld at the Annual Conference for the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability on September 10-11, 2013 at Magdalene College, Cambridge –...
View ArticleTesco Publishes Food Waste Figures
Tesco says 68 percent of its bagged salad ends up in the trash along with 40 percent of apples and almost half of bakery items. These foods make up a piece of the 28,500 metric tons of food waste the...
View ArticleEDF Launches Sustainable Fisheries Toolkit
Environmental Defense Fund has launched a Fisheries Toolkit to help fishermen and seafood companies design and implement management systems to restore the sustainability and profitability to fisheries...
View ArticleWaste Management Fuels Fleet with Landfill Gas
Waste Management is building a facility that will create pipeline-ready natural gas from its Milam Landfill in Fairmont City, Ill. The processed renewable natural gas will be injected into the...
View ArticleLocus Introduces Environmental Resource Planning Platform
Locus Technologies today introduced its newest platform for environmental enterprise resource planning. The cloud-based sustainability management software firm says sustainability and environmental...
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