November, 2011
Standards & Compliance Briefing: ISO 50001, LEED, BizNGO Group, CODE REDD
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has been ISO 50001-certified at its largest manufacturing site, in Wakefield, Great Britain. It is the first company in the global food ...
Companies’ 2012 Sustainability Plans: Focus on Employees, Suppliers
Employee engagement and supplier sustainability performance are the corporate sustainability initiatives that will get the most time and resources in 2012, ...
CSR Departments Redundant, Unilever Chief Says
CSR departments are redundant, Unilever chief marketing officer Keith Weed told the annual Marketing Society conference in London.
Weed said brands should weave CSR into ...
GM Achieves Zero-Waste Status at 1st US Factory
General Motors' Fort Wayne Assembly Plant has become its first U.S. factory to reach zero waste-to-landfill status, joining 78 other GM manufacturing facilities around ...
Solar Briefing: L’Oreal, Carmanah, San Diego, Cogenra and Defense Dept.
L'Oreal USA's North Little Rock, Ark., manufacturing facility's solar array installation is fully operational. The 13 kW solar array will provide 18,000 kWh of electricity annually, ...
Texas Children’s Hospital Installs Aircuity’s OptiNet
Texas Children's Hospital has installed Aircuity's ventilation efficiency system OptiNet in its Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute building.
The installation helped the building achieve silver-level ...
EnergySavvy Launches Program Optix; Signs City of San Francisco, LEAP
Software company EnergySavvy has put its Program Optix product - aimed at utilities running energy efficiency drives - on general release, and signed the City of ...
North Face Cuts GHGs 7.5%
The North Face reduced its GHG emissions by 7.5 percent in 2010, from 0.303 MT to 0.281 MT CO2e per thousand units sold, ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Clean Water, Clean Air Act, Cross-State Air Pollution
Federal prosecutors said BP broke pledges to improve operations after Alaska's North Slope pipeline spill five years ago, and are seeking to ...
Smart Buildings and Energy Management
The co-author of Six Sigma for Sustainability discusses how companies can bring discipline and metrics to energy and sustainability intiaitives. Six ...
Bringing ‘Fair Trade’ Home
The topic of fair trade may seem unusual from a guy like me who usually writes and speaks about sustainability with a ...
Tools of the Green Manufacturing Trade, Part 3
This is a continuation of my discussion of the the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) Sustainable Manufacturing Toolkit ...
LG to Halve Greenhouse Emissions
LG Electronics USA has set a target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by the end of 2020, compared with a 2007 baseline.
To ...
Starbucks Eyes Up Tim Hortons’ Cup-to-Tray Technology
Starbucks has expressed an interest in the technique that Canadian chain Tim Hortons is using to recycle its hot beverage cups into take-out ...
GaBi 5 Software Launched by PE International
Sustainability consulting company PE International has launched the newest version of its life-cycle assessment program GaBi.
GaBi 5 models every element of a product or system from ...
Document Management Systems Can Fill EHS Needs, Analyst Says
Mid-sized and small companies can often use document management systems to accomplish the same results they would get out of environmental, health and safety ...
Barrier Plastics Launches Vessel Alternative to HDPE, Metal
Barrier Plastics Inc. has released the Baritainer, a sustainable nylon vessel that it calls an alternative to fluorinated HDPE or metal packaging.
Baritainers, which are made using Quoral ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Climate Bonds, ISO 50001, Cradle to Cradle, Green Leaf
The Climate Bonds Initiative has released a prototype Climate Bond Standard - a screening tool for investors and governments to support investment in the ...
Enbala Connects American Water to PJM Smart Grid
American Water and Enbala Power Networks are two of the first companies to take advantage of new rules that allow industrial loads in ...
GHG and the Crystal Ball: EPA’s Not-So-Clear Path Forward
Join Environmental Leader for a webinar on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11am PST/2pm EST, discussing the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Mandatory ...
