January, 2010
Obama Orders Government To Slash GHG Emissions 28%
President Obama has ordered the government, the largest consumer of energy in the U.S., to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2020.
The move follows ...
Price Chopper Uses Fuel Cell Power
GE, Intel, Ford Sit Atop Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index
GE sits on top of yet another ranking of sustainable companies, the Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index.
GE also garnered the top ranking ...
Quaker Oats Cuts Energy Use, Earns Cash Incentive
Quaker Oats, part of PepsiCo, has earned more than $100,180 in rebates, in addition to lowering its energy bill, for reducing the company's energy consumption at ...
Levi Considers Sustainably Sourced Cotton
Levi Strauss is working on a pilot program to locate the source of cotton used in its clothing, and eventually determine if the cotton was sustainably ...
Federal Agencies Spent $1.7B on Energy-Efficiency Projects in 2009
Federal agencies spent more than $1.7 billion last year on energy-efficiency projects, increasing their environmental spend by more than an 80 percent from 2008, reports ...
U.S. Officially Pledges to Cut GHG Emissions by 17%
Bolstering the global warming deal made at the Copenhagen talks in December, the Obama administration officially pledged that the United States would cut its greenhouse gas ...
SEKO Takes Advantage of Tax Credits to Add Solar Solution
SEKO Worldwide plans to use solar energy to power most operations at its Portland, Ore., facility. The company was able to take advantage of ...
Half of British Businesses Worry about Energy Costs – Gov’t Says Knock Down Old Buildings
About 49 percent of 700 UK businesses surveyed said they are concerned about energy price hikes in 2010, according to a report from Carbon Trust. ...
IBM, Disney Open Data Center Demo at Epcot
The Smarter Planet exhibit at Disney's Epcot Center includes an IBM data center.
The data center powers the exhibit, as well as serving as a public demonstration ...
Clean Energy Stimulus Beats Cap and Trade: Davos Roundup Part II
Cap and trade legislation should go the way of the dodo bird, and emphasis should be put on building renewable energy as availability of fossil ...
Roundup – CA Water Use, China, CO2 Labels, Invercote Bio, EU Emissions
Where to find one million acre-feet of water for California. An advance peek at a new assessment
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Finding the root cause ...
Nature’s Path Sustainability Campaign Boosts Sales 33%
Nature’s Path has unleashed its first integrated, multi-channel consumer campaign in North America for its flagship cereal, Flax Plus Pumpkin Granola, focusing on what the company ...
GE Tops List of Most Sustainable Companies
Corporate Knights has announced its sixth annual Global 100 list of the most sustainable large corporations in the world at the World Economic Forum in ...
EPA May Reconsider Toxic Waste Loophole
The detritus from e-waste recycling may have to find another destination if the EPA reverses stance on a toxic-waste disposal loophole. One of the issues revolves ...
Davos Roundup: Climate Deal is Dead, Long Live Big Oil
As world leaders gather to discuss economic problems during the Davos talks, energy execs are calling for a new peak in oil production, and others cite ...
California Storing Energy in Ice to Reduce Peak Demand
The Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA), which represents 11 municipal utilities, plans to install energy-storage devices to cut the amount of electricity used by air ...
Kraft Sheds 150M Pounds of Packaging
Kraft Foods has achieved its goal of reducing 150 million pounds of material from its supply chain two years ahead of schedule.
Kraft is using a ...
Portland Arena Blazes Trail to 771K kWh/year in Energy Savings
The Rose Garden - home of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers - has undergone a range of efficiency improvements, resulting in a LEED Gold rating by ...
Dow Saves 1B Gallons of Water by Tweaking Cooling Towers
Dow Chemical has used a variety of efforts to save a billion gallons of water at its Freeport, Texas, site.
The company is saving about $4 million ...
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
