Products & Planning

Coca-Cola, Carbon Trust Investigate Personal Carbon Allowances

Coca-Cola, Carbon Trust Investigate Personal Carbon AllowancesA study by Coca-Cola Co. and The Carbon Trust that investigated how people might respond to personal carbon allowances ...

April 23, 2012

Lush Cosmetics Taps the Cloud to Track Its Carbon Footprint

Lush Cosmetics Taps the Cloud to Track Its Carbon FootprintLush, an international cosmetics company, has tapped cloud data management firm CloudApps to help it more accurately measure its environmental ...

April 20, 2012

MiserWare Launches IT Power Monitoring Tool

MiserWare Launches IT Power Monitoring ToolSoftware 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 ...

April 20, 2012

Sustainability Efforts at Sheraton Denver Downtown

Sustainability Efforts at Sheraton Denver Downtown Sustainability Efforts at Sheraton Denver Downtown.

April 20, 2012

Lennox Boosts Efficiency of Cooling Units

Lennox Boosts Efficiency of Cooling UnitsLennox 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 ...

April 20, 2012

Panasonic Launches Business Unit for Renewables and Efficiency

Panasonic Launches Business Unit for Renewables and EfficiencyPanasonic has established Panasonic Eco Solutions North America, a new business unit that ...

April 19, 2012

EL Pro Mitsubishi Electric Targets 27% Cut in Carbon Emissions from Product Use

Mitsubishi Electric Targets 27% Cut in Carbon Emissions from Product UseMitsubishi Electric Corporation is aiming to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the use of 84 products by an average of 27 percent, compared to levels ...

April 18, 2012

DHL Uses Rail to Cut Carbon Emissions

DHL Uses Rail to Cut Carbon EmissionsDHL Global Forwarding will rely more heavily on rail in Germany to transport containers to sea freight terminals in an effort to cut its carbon ...

April 18, 2012

Daintree Expands Wireless Light Fixture Adapter Range

Daintree Expands Wireless Light Fixture Adapter RangeWireless 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 ...

April 18, 2012

Fleet Briefing: Ford Partners with Dow; CNG for Veolia, Waste Connections and Hertz

Fleet Briefing: Ford Partners with Dow; CNG for Veolia, Waste Connections and HertzFord Motor Company is partnering with Dow Automotive Systems to research the use of advanced carbon fiber composites to reduce weight in high-volume ...

April 17, 2012

Boeing 737 MAX to Improve Fuel Burn up to 12%

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, ...

April 16, 2012

Grower Sustainability on the Farm

Grower Sustainability on the Farm Bob Meek, chief executive officer at Wada Farms Marketing Group, discusses grower sustainability on the farm.

April 13, 2012

‘Father of LEED’ Slams Energy Dashboards

‘Father of LEED’ Slams Energy DashboardsBuilding energy dashboards often miss - or mask - the root cause of a building's energy-efficiency problems, and there needs to be a radical shift ...

April 13, 2012

EL Pro Standards & Compliance Briefing: NASA, LEED, Green-e, ASHRAE 90.1, ISO 14001

Standards & Compliance Briefing: NASA, LEED, Green-e, ASHRAE 90.1, ISO 14001Here'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 ...

April 10, 2012

Bearing Point Launches LogEC Freight Carbon Analysis Tool

Bearing Point Launches LogEC Freight Carbon Analysis ToolConsultancy BearingPoint has released software that allows logistics providers and shippers to calculate and analyze their carbon footprints, as well as to plan, evaluate ...

April 10, 2012

EL Pro Fleet Briefing: Lexus, Infiniti, Ram, Chevy Volt

Fleet Briefing: Lexus, Infiniti, Ram, Chevy VoltHere'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 ...

April 10, 2012

Google Plans Thermal Storage System for Data Center

Google Plans Thermal Storage System for Data CenterA Google data center planned for Changhua County, Taiwan, is to use a thermal storage system, Data Center Knowledge reports. Thermal storage systems, typically made ...

April 9, 2012

Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big Data

Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big DataWhen 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 ...

April 6, 2012

Dignity Healthcare Taps Medline Industries for Dye-Free Plastic

Dignity Healthcare Taps Medline Industries for Dye-Free PlasticDignity 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 ...

April 5, 2012

Chevy’s EcoLogic Stickers Unveiled

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 ...

April 5, 2012