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June 26, 2009
- CSR Roundup: Coca Cola Hellenic, Verizon and Molson Coors
These big-name consumer brands published their annual corporate responsibility reports this week highlighting progress they’ve made: Verizon improved its carbon intensity and fleet fuel consumption, while Molson Coors Brewing Co. reduced absolute emissions, water use, waste and energy use in 2008. For the first time, absolute water use shrank while overall production volume grew for bottler Coca Cola Hellenic.
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source: (GreenBiz.com Green Business News) - Fujifilm Powers Manufacturing Plant with Methane Gas
Fujifilm Manufacturing U.S.A. has completed its methane gas utilization project to reclaim methane gas from a local community landfill to power approximately 40 percent of its primary U.S. manufacturing complex in Greenwood, South Carolina. Fujifilm expects to reduce CO2 emissions by about 15,000 tons or 13 percent per year at its facilities in Greenwood.
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source: (Environmental Leader) - Sustainable Agriculture Requires Farm Modernization, Free Markets, Tech Adoption
A new report focuses on the challenge of how to sustainably meet the growing energy and food demands of a global population approaching nine billion people in 2050.
The report, “Investing in Agriculture: Far-Reaching Challenge, Significant Opportunity: An Asset Management Perspective,” from DB Climate Change Advisors, focuses on the steps needed to boost agricultural productivity as [...]- 6 days
source: (Environmental Leader) - Climate Change Regulations Impact European Businesses
U.K.-based GHK Consulting, hired by the European Commission, has reviewed 15 companies, including Enel, Cadbury, Marks and Spencer, Carrefour, Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic, to examine how climate change and related policies have influenced them, according to the New York Times.
The companies have taken widespread measures to substitute high-energy-intensity goods and services with services that [...]- 6 days
source: (Environmental Leader) - Stimulus Funds Boost Trane’s Energy-Efficiency Business
Aimed at lowering the amount of energy needed to power the blowers and distributors of commercial and institutional air conditioning systems, Trane has rolled out its new Performance Climate Changer air handling units at its Lexington, Ky., manufacturing facility, reports Business Lexington.
Trane’s new line will phase out two of its major project lines at the [...]- 6 days
source: (Environmental Leader) - ASHRAE Launches Prototype Building Energy Label
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has released its prototype building energy labeling program at its 2009 Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The Building Energy Quotient program, which will be known as Building EQ, will include both asset and operational ratings for all building types with the exception of residential buildings. ASHRAE is [...]
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source: (Environmental Leader) - California Delays Carbon Fee Decision
California has delayed a decision on whether to implement the nation’s first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other industries as a way to pay for the state’s landmark greenhouse gas emissions law, reports the Washington Examiner (via AP). A vote on the carbon fee will be held at the board’s meeting in [...]- 6 days
source: (Environmental Leader) - The Key to Cracking the Tight Job Market: Expanding Green Skills, Knowledge
People come to Bright Green Talent every day for advice on how they can get into a sector that's increasingly seeming like a mirage. Lately, there's more frustration in their voices, and people are wondering if all these green jobs evangelists are really just snake oil salesmen. For now the jobs may be few, but they are real — and there's way for jobseekers to get an edge.
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source: (GreenBiz.com Green Business News) - What Does Big Solar Want? What Doesn't It Want?
Rarely does an industry come to Washington and hold a press conference to talk about why it wants to be given a leg up over the competition. But that's what the solar power industry did this week.
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source: (GreenBiz.com Green Business News) - Electricity, Heat, Transportation Cause 60% of Emissions
Electricity and heat generation results in 32.4 percent of all greenhouse gases emitted in the United States, according to a new climate report from the government. Transportation accounts for another 27.2 percent of GHG emissions. Less than 20 percent comes from industry, industrial waste and industrial processes, according to the report, “Global Climate Change Impacts in the [...]
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source: (Environmental Leader) - The Netherlands Ponders Floating City Architecture
The Netherlands, which for years has fought the encroaching ocean, is now considering how to embrace the waters in future city design, Reuters reports. A number of prototypes for floating cities are being considered. Indeed, the Netherlands may well become a laboratory for such thinking. A goal is to be able to remove or relocate a building [...]
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source: (Environmental Leader)
June 25, 2009
- Eco-Libris: An Interview With Orly Zeewy, a Branding Consultant, on Green Branding
This post was originally posted on Eco-Libris blog on June 21.
The added value of going green is constantly growing. According to a survey conducted lately, 46% of consumers say they would shop at a retailer more if it was environmentally friendly. Another study of Mintel shows 62% of customers choose a restaurant based on their commitment to the environment.
- New Law Requires Calif. Landfills to Capture Methane
A new regulation adopted today will force more than a dozen California landfills to design and install equipment that captures methane gas created by decomposing solid waste.
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source: (GreenBiz.com Green Business News) - The Climate Bill is Essential, But Won't Break U.S. Oil Dependence
The Waxman-Markey bill is a giant step in transitioning toward a low-carbon economy, but it will not, as some proponents claim, solve the grave problem of U.S. oil dependence.
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source: (GreenBiz.com Green Business News) - AMF Bowling Centers Roll Out Lighting Retrofits for Energy Savings
The company has contracted with Lime Energy to upgrade 286 sites nationwide, and expects to save $3 million per year in energy costs when the project is complete.
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source: (GreenBiz.com Green Business News) - Energy Costs Rising, Regulations Imminent - Are You Ready?
While organizations remain uncertain about the specific effects and requirements of future greenhouse gas (GHG) legislation and regulation, one outcome is certain: any law that puts a price on carbon will increase energy costs.
To reduce vulnerability to energy cost increases, organizations must prepare now, and a comprehensive evaluation of energy use in facilities and real [...]- 7 days
source: (Environmental Leader) - Breaking the Barriers and Seizing the Moment
Gil Friend, president of the consulting firm Natural Logic, speaks with GreenBiz.com executive editor Joel Makower on the occasion of the publication of Friend's new book, The Truth About Green Business.
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source: (GreenBiz.com Green Business News) - Sears Tower Slated for $350M Sustainability Makeover
Sears Tower, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, is about to get a $350-million makeover that is designed to significantly reduce its energy use by up to 80 percent and cut its CO2 emissions. The retrofit project, over the next five years, includes major upgrades to windows, heating and cooling systems, lighting, elevators, restroom [...]- 7 days
source: (Environmental Leader) - IP Says Paper is Greener than Computers
International Paper has added a new brochure to its Down to Earth environmental series, “Pixels vs. Paper: Are pixels greener than paper?” which takes the stance that paper is friendlier to the environment than electronic devices.
Some of IP’s key findings in the comparison between paper and computers include:
- The amount of electricity to run a [...]- 7 days
source: (Environmental Leader) - Audi Promotes Clean Diesel via Facebook, Carbon Offsets
As part of a campaign promoting the Audi TDI clean diesel engines, Audi will donate $1 to The Nature Conservancy’s voluntary carbon offset program for every Facebook user who joins the cause, up to $25,000.
The car maker says the new clean diesel engines reduce carbon emissions by 20 percent compared to gasoline engines and is [...]- 7 days
source: (Environmental Leader)