Products & Planning

Kmart, Supervalu, 6 Other Supermarkets Drop APP Toilet Paper over Forest Concerns

Kmart, Supervalu, 6 Other Supermarkets Drop APP Toilet Paper over Forest ConcernsKmart, Kroger, BI-LO, Harris Teeter, Supervalu, Weis Markets, Brookshire Grocery Company and Delhaize Group (owner of Food Lion) have all decided to stop carrying ...

February 9, 2012

Windows 8 Targets Application Efficiency

Windows 8 Targets Application EfficiencyMicrosoft's Windows 8 (pictured) will increase energy efficiency in the operating system's applications, according to two of the product's developers. One example of this new ...

February 9, 2012

EL Pro Tesco Tackles Food Waste with Ethylene-Absorbing Strips

Tesco Tackles Food Waste with Ethylene-Absorbing StripsTesco is trialing a packaging strip developed by It'sFresh! Ltd. in an effort to make food last longer and prevent waste. The U.K. supermarket giant will ...

February 9, 2012

EL Pro Lighting Brief: Soraa, Cree and Marvell

Lighting Brief: Soraa, Cree and MarvellCalifornia-based lighting startup Soraa has launched an LED lamp that it says emits more light per LED material and can handle more electric current per area than its competitors products. The Soraa LED MR16 lamp ...

February 9, 2012

EL Pro Standards & Compliance Briefing: Energy Star, LEED, FSC Chain of Custody, ESG Sovereign Ratings

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Energy Star, LEED, FSC Chain of Custody, ESG Sovereign RatingsMitsubishi's 75-inch LaserVue television was named Energy Star Most Efficient for 2012, placing it among the top energy-efficient televisions 55-inches or larger sold in ...

February 9, 2012

Mitsubishi Ends Honda’s 8-Year Reign on Green Car List

Mitsubishi Ends Honda’s 8-Year Reign on Green Car ListThe Mitsubishi i-MIEV has unseated the Honda Civic Natural Gas from its throne and become the first electric car in 12 years to ...

February 8, 2012

Rechargeable Lawnmowers Launched

Rechargeable Lawnmowers LaunchedRecharge Mowers has launched a line of emission-free rechargeable lawnmowers. The Recharge Mower G2 electric rechargeable riding mower can cut up to 2 acres on a ...

February 8, 2012

EL Pro Standards & Compliance Briefing: GreenScreens, Global Sustainable Tourism Council, WaterSense, CarbonNeutral

Standards & Compliance Briefing: GreenScreens, Global Sustainable Tourism Council, WaterSense, CarbonNeutralNSF International now offers chemical reviews in accordance with Clean Production Action's (CPA) GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals program. The Greenscreen scores chemicals from one through ...

February 7, 2012

EL Pro O2 Sustainability Goals: 100% Renewables, an End to Bundled Chargers

O2 Sustainability Goals: 100% Renewables, an End to Bundled ChargersO2 will use 100 percent renewable energy and will no longer offer chargers free with mobile phone purchases, as part of a three-year sustainability ...

February 7, 2012

Siemens Launches Drive Train Savings Estimator

Siemens Launches Drive Train Savings EstimatorThe Drive Technologies division of Siemens Industry Inc. has launched its online Energy Savings Estimator, a tool that allows companies using drives, motors, ...

February 6, 2012

EPA Green-Lights EcoDual Fuel Truck Conversion Kit

EPA Green-Lights EcoDual Fuel Truck Conversion KitEcoDual LLC, a provider of dual fuel conversion systems for heavy duty diesel trucks, has achieved authorization from the EPA to begin installing its systems ...

February 6, 2012

Ensave, Ecology and Environment Launch Farm Energy Audits

Ensave, Ecology and Environment Launch Farm Energy AuditsEnSave and partner Ecology and Environment have launched an audit service for farm energy uses including tillage, harvesting, and waste management. The Landscape Agricultural Energy ...

February 6, 2012

EL Pro Oracle VP Urges Event Organizers to Take Action

Oracle VP Urges Event Organizers to Take ActionThe event industry is the second-biggest generator of waste in the U.S. and event organizers must make a start, however small, to address their ...

February 6, 2012

Super Bowl Host Committee Prez Talks Sustainability

Super Bowl Host Committee Prez Talks Sustainability Super Bowl Host Committee President Allison Melangton discusses recycling efforts at the stadium and other sustainability efforts.

February 3, 2012

DuPont Film ‘Cuts Energy and Waste’

DuPont Film ‘Cuts Energy and Waste’Appliance manufacturer Miele is among the first to use new DuPont packaging film that both saves energy and reduces waste, the companies say. The ...

February 3, 2012

Ecologix Launches Fracking Water Treatment System

Ecologix Launches Fracking Water Treatment SystemEcologix Environmental Systems, an Atlanta-based wastewater treatment company specializing in the oil and gas industry, has designed a mobile integrated treatment system for hydraulic fracturing ...

February 3, 2012

EL Pro Renewables Briefing: Siemens and Army, Bancorp Bets on Renewables, and Wind Power Getting Cheaper

Renewables Briefing: Siemens and Army, Bancorp Bets on Renewables, and Wind Power Getting CheaperSiemens Government Technologies Inc. is to build the U.S. Army's largest solar photovoltaic system at the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. The 4.465 ...

February 3, 2012

Power Assure Launches Data Center Management System

Power Assure Launches Data Center Management SystemData center energy management firm Power Assure Inc., has announced an integrated data center power monitoring and analytics system that it says improves the reliability and energy-efficientcy of data centers....

February 3, 2012

Warm Winter Hurting Some Businesses, Boosting Others

Warm Winter Hurting Some Businesses, Boosting OthersApparel makers and retailers, ski resort operators and natural gas producers are feeling the pinch from abnormally warm winter temperatures in the U.S., ...

February 2, 2012

EL Pro Lighting Briefing: Philips, Cummings Properties, Noribachi

Lighting Briefing: Philips, Cummings Properties, NoribachiRoyal Philips Electronics saw a 70 percent increase in LED lighting sales in 2011, excluding LED chips, reports Optics.org. In the final quarter of ...

February 2, 2012