Products & Planning
Coca-Cola, Carbon Trust Investigate Personal Carbon Allowances
A study by Coca-Cola Co. and The Carbon Trust that investigated how people might respond to personal carbon allowances ...
Lush Cosmetics Taps the Cloud to Track Its Carbon Footprint
Lush, an international cosmetics company, has tapped cloud data management firm CloudApps to help it more accurately measure its environmental ...
MiserWare Launches IT Power Monitoring Tool
Software company MiserWare has released IT power use monitoring program Granola Enterprise 5.0.
The program allows companies to measure the energy use of all of ...
Sustainability Efforts at Sheraton Denver Downtown
Sustainability Efforts at Sheraton Denver Downtown.
Lennox Boosts Efficiency of Cooling Units
Lennox has added a new all-aluminum condenser coil to its energy efficient Energence rooftop cooling units, slashing the amount of refrigerant required by nearly half.
The ...
Panasonic Launches Business Unit for Renewables and Efficiency
Panasonic has established Panasonic Eco Solutions North America, a new business unit that ...
Mitsubishi Electric Targets 27% Cut in Carbon Emissions from Product Use
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is aiming to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the use of 84 products by an average of 27 percent, compared to levels ...
DHL Uses Rail to Cut Carbon Emissions
DHL Global Forwarding will rely more heavily on rail in Germany to transport containers to sea freight terminals in an effort to cut its carbon ...
Daintree Expands Wireless Light Fixture Adapter Range
Wireless lighting controls supplier Daintree Networks has expanded its line of its wireless adapters for commercial and industrial buildings.
Daintree says that the line's expansion ...
Fleet Briefing: Ford Partners with Dow; CNG for Veolia, Waste Connections and Hertz
Ford Motor Company is partnering with Dow Automotive Systems to research the use of advanced carbon fiber composites to reduce weight in high-volume ...
Boeing 737 MAX to Improve Fuel Burn up to 12%
Boeing has made a series of design updates to its 737 MAX engine variant that will make additional fuel savings available to customers by 2017, ...
Grower Sustainability on the Farm
Bob Meek, chief executive officer at Wada Farms Marketing Group, discusses grower sustainability on the farm.
‘Father of LEED’ Slams Energy Dashboards
Building energy dashboards often miss - or mask - the root cause of a building's energy-efficiency problems, and there needs to be a radical shift ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: NASA, LEED, Green-e, ASHRAE 90.1, ISO 14001
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes seven items.
NASA's newest building at Ames Research Center at ...
Bearing Point Launches LogEC Freight Carbon Analysis Tool
Consultancy BearingPoint has released software that allows logistics providers and shippers to calculate and analyze their carbon footprints, as well as to plan, evaluate ...
Fleet Briefing: Lexus, Infiniti, Ram, Chevy Volt
Here's the latest alternative fuel and energy-efficient vehicle news affecting environmental and energy executives:
Lexus unveiled its 2013 ES lineup at the New York International Auto ...
Google Plans Thermal Storage System for Data Center
A Google data center planned for Changhua County, Taiwan, is to use a thermal storage system, Data Center Knowledge reports.
Thermal storage systems, typically made ...
Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big Data
When Shell Oil's power requirements grew 3.6 MW in a nine-month period at its three global data centers and 400 regional sites, the company's IT ...
Dignity Healthcare Taps Medline Industries for Dye-Free Plastic
Dignity Health has become the first health system in the U.S. to switch to dye-free patient plastics.
Under the new initiative, Dignity Health will replace everyday ...
Chevy’s EcoLogic Stickers Unveiled
Here's a video of the Ecologic stickers that Chevy unveiled earlier this year (read our story). The sticker details how ...
