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July 03, 2009

  • More Green Products and Services Available for Office Landscaping
    More Green Products and Services Available for Office LandscapingBusinesses wanting to adopt “greener” landscaping in their office complexes increasingly will find more products and companies offering such solutions. Landscape maintenance companies are implementing eco-friendly practices. As an example, Team Innovative Inc. uses an inverter inside its equipment trailer to charge reusable batteries while getting power from a battery charged by the truck, reports Kitsap [...]
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    source: (Environmental Leader)
  • SAB Miller Targets 25% Reduction in Water Used in Brewing
    SAB Miller Targets 25% Reduction in Water Used in BrewingBy 2015, SAB Miller, which markets more than 200 brands of beer and is the world’s largest bottler of Coca-Cola products, hopes to reduce by 25 percent the amount of water used to brew each hectoliter of beer. Currently, the $25 billion company uses 4.6 hectoliters of water per hectoliter of beer produced. The goal is [...]
    - about 10 hours
    source: (Environmental Leader)
  • Cisco Wants to Transform Energy Demand and Use with Smart Buildings
    Cisco Wants to Transform Energy Demand and Use with Smart BuildingsBuilding on its smart-grid initiative announced in May, Cisco Systems has unveiled its Smart Connected Buildings solution, at Cisco Live in San Francisco, as a key component for delivering its vision for Smart+Connected Communities. The networking equipment giant also rolled out the first Smart Connected Building solution, the Network Building Mediator, which will interconnect and enable [...]
    - about 11 hours
    source: (Environmental Leader)
  • Fuel Cell Systems to Power 30% of Coca-Cola NY Facility
    Fuel Cell Systems to Power 30% of Coca-Cola NY FacilityUTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. company, announced it will supply two of its new PureCell Model 400 fuel cell systems to Coca-Cola Enterprises’ production facility in Elmsford, N.Y. The two fuel cell systems will generate energy and heat for 30 percent of the facility’s operations, according to UTC Power, based in South Windsor, Conn. The [...]
    - about 11 hours
    source: (Environmental Leader)
  • Energy Star Homes Save $250M on Utility Bills in 2008
    Energy Star Homes Save $250M on Utility Bills in 2008Nearly 17 percent of all single-family homes built nationally in 2008 earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Energy’s Energy Star label, up from 12 percent in 2007, indicating that both home builders and home buyers continue to invest in energy-efficient homes. Energy-efficient features including properly installed insulation, high-performance windows and high-efficiency heating and cooling can reduce home [...]
    - about 12 hours
    source: (Environmental Leader)

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