April, 2010
Diversey: Emissions Reduction Investments Deliver 100% ROI
Curt Johnson, Chair of Diversey presented at the Diversey Climate Change Summit in ...
U.S. Offices Lag in Efficiency, Conservation
U.S. office buildings are not keeping pace with building automation, leading to lost productivity and added costs, according to a survey of U.S. office workers ...
FL Billboard Retrofits Powered by Renewable Energy
EPA Launches Searchable Database on Chemicals
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched its Web-based chemicals database, ToxRefDB, which allows anyone to search and download thousands of toxicity testing ...
Risk Managers Worry the Most about Political/Regulatory Environments
Nearly 75 percent of corporate risk managers, who responded to a survey on climate change risk, said political and regulatory environments are their top ...
Cisco, Ericsson Top Greenpeace IT Leaders Ranking
Cisco and Ericsson top the latest update to Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard list, while Panasonic, Sony and Sharp rank at the bottom. Findings indicate that there is a significant gap between talk and ...
Roundup – Top 10 Tips, UPS, EnerNOC, SF, LEED, Green Roofs
Carrier sets ‘green’ standards for shipment packaging
Packaging World
EnerNOC Appoints Nick d'Arbeloff as Vice President, Enterprise Energy Management
Market Watch...
Sam’s Club Installs On-Site Wind Power
Sam's Club claims to be the first U.S. retailer to install "a significant number" of on-site micro wind turbines. The retailer installed 17 wind ...
Five Tips for Selecting LED Lighting Systems
LED lighting retrofits can offer businesses two key benefits: some fixtures can deliver up to an 85 percent energy savings and the life span ...
JCPenney, Sears Buildings, and Others, Compete to Improve Energy Efficiency
JCPenney and Sears stores are among 14 commercial buildings that are competing in the first national energy efficiency contest sponsored by the U.S. Environmental ...
Carbon Market Poised for Growth, More Cases of Carbon Credit Fraud
The fast-track growth of the global carbon trading market, which grew at a compound annual growth rate of 89 percent from 2005 to 2009, has ...
U.S. Electric Transmission Congestion Persists in Four Key Areas
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reports that severe transmission congestion problems remain in two key areas from mid-state New York southward along the ...
NH Schools Add Biomass Plants to Cut Utility Bills
Two school districts in New Hampshire plan to cut their utility bills through two renewable energy and building retrofit programs, saving the schools more ...
Roundup – Alteris, FPL, Wegmans, ConAgra, AEP
HVCC Installs Solar
Alteris Renewables
FPL Reduces Wind-Energy Expansion Plans for This Year
BusinessWeek
Wegmans Takes Action on Some BPA Product...
U.S. DOE Awards SEEA $20M For Efficiency Programs
The recipient of a recent $20 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative, the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA) has ...
Alcoa Howmet Reduces Carbon Footprint Of Company, Community
As one of the world’s largest aluminum manufacturers, Alcoa uses massive amounts of energy in daily production, but by setting aggressive goals for waste reduction, water conservation, and now energy efficiency, it is seeking to ...
Cisco, HP, and Intel Score Highest on Sustainability Reporting
Cisco, HP and Intel achieved the highest scores among the 200 largest companies in the San Francisco Bay Area (PDF) for communicating their ...
Federal Green IT Program Offsets 100% of CO2 Emissions
More than a dozen federal agencies, including the Energy, Justice, and Commerce departments, as well as the Navy, are participating in a "green" IT ...
Roundup: EPA’s Climate Indicators Report, Massey, Honda, TransCanada, Philips
EPA Releases Climate Indicators Report
US EPA
Tipping Point: Near-Term Systemic Implications of a Peak in Global Oil Production - Contexts and ...
Australia Drops Plans for Carbon Emissions Scheme until 2012
After months of debate, Australia is dropping its plans for an ambitious carbon emissions trade scheme for at least three years due to ...
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
