October, 2011
Allianz Deploys IO Anywhere Modular Data Center
Allianz Global Investors of America has deployed IO's IO Anywhere, a modular data center technology platform. By choosing the modular platform, ...
Apple Quietly Plans Solar Array for $1bn Data Center
Apple is quietly planning a solar farm near its newly opened, $1 billion Project Dolphin data center in Maiden, N.C., according to news reports.
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Shippers Pledge Sustainability Performance Standards
Major shipping companies have pledged to pioneer methods for stakeholders to compare sustainability performance, in an effort to improve the industry's environmental ...
Chemical Firms Report Carbon Management Progress
Some 26 percent of major chemical companies now report top-level carbon management strategies, according to a survey by IT firm Computer Sciences Corporation and Chemical Week ...
Recyclers Petition FTC Over Car Dealer Warranty Claims
Trade body the Automotive Recyclers Association has filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission asking the agency to keep a close eye on potentially unfair language ...
Do I Care about the Environment? You Tell Me
Consumer behaviour change. These three words seem to be appearing with increasing frequency within the conversations around sustainability in many if not ...
NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2
NHS Supply Chain, the outsourced procurement arm of the U.K.'s National Health Service, cut delivery distances from 11 million to 9.8 million miles ...
Thinking It Through: Ecodesign in ISO 14006:2011
The famous Native American law which challenges a nation to think seven generations ahead before taking an action is known as the ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Energy Department Probe, Arizona Copper Mining, Cape Wind Setback
President Obama has promised House Republicans investigating the government's aid to to the now-bankrupt solar firm Solyndra that a former business executive will lead an independent ...
JCPenney’s Recycled Cardboard Initiative
JCPenney gives an overview of its use of 100 percent recycled cardboard boxes for online shopping orders.
Kroger Progressing on Sustainable Fish Goal
Kroger has announced that 65 percent of its top 20 wild-caught seafood species are sourced from fisheries meeting its sustainability standards, ...
Tata Taps Emerson for Energy Management
Tata Steel has upgraded control of the largest steam boiler at its Port Talbot, Wales, facility using energy management technologies and services from Emerson Process Management.
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Best Buy Energy Automation to Cut Costs 15% in Three Years
Best Buy is to implement a new energy management system across its 1,105 U.S. retail locations, in a move expected to reduce the company's energy costs ...
Calif. Sues Firms Over Degradable Bottle Claims
Bottle manufacturer ENSO Plastics and drinks companies Aquamantra and Balance Water are being sued by the California attorney general's office over claims that they misled customers ...
Intel, Dell Join Facebook’s Efficiency Project
Intel, Dell, Mozilla, Rackspace and Netflix have all joined Facebook's Open Compute Project, which aims to increase efficiencies and reduce the environmental impacts ...
White Roofs Could Raise Global Temperatures
A worldwide conversion to white roofs may actually warm the earth by about 0.07 C (0.13 F), according to Stanford University researchers.
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Walmart and the Food Movement
Jack Sinclair, executive vice president of grocery merchandise at Walmart, and Jib Ellison, CEO of Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting, talk with ...
Environmental Consulting Falls for 2nd Year in UK
The U.K. environmental consulting market contracted by 8.4 percent in 2010, and prospects for 2011 are relatively flat, market research firm Environment Analyst ...
Carbon Trust to Help Businesses with Green Product Selection
The Carbon Trust, a non-profit funded by the U.K. government, has launched a business aimed at helping companies reduce their energy costs and install greener, more efficient technology.
Carbon Trust Implementation aims to remove barriers ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Solar Zones, Ozone Hearing, Carbon Tax
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (pictured left) on Thursday announced a revised plan to establish solar energy zones in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, ...
