Carbon Footprint

JohnsonDiversey Ups GHG Reduction Target to 25%

JohnsonDiversey plans to more than triple its original greenhouse gas reduction commitment, from 8 percent to 25 percent by the end of 2013. JohnsonDiversey made the ...

Wal-Mart Adding LEDs to 650 Stores

Megaretailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to use LED lights inside 650 new and renovated stores. Cree Inc. has been selected to handle the installation, ...

SC Johnson GHG Emissions Down 27% in Last 8 Years

SC Johnson continues to make progress toward its 2011 GHG reduction goals, according to its 2009 responsibility report (PDF). SC Johnson cut greenhouse ...

Senate Tries to Get Past Hot Air in Climate Hearings

With the Senate set to wrap up three days of hearings on the climate bill Oct. 29, stakeholders on all sides of the debate are ramping ...

Google, Microsoft, IBM Could Profit by Pressuring U.S. Chamber, Greenpeace Says

IT stalwarts like Google, Microsoft and IBM would profit by stepping up the pressure on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to modify its climate ...

Supply Chain Needs to Measure Carbon Footprint

Peter Graf, Chief Sustainability Officer for SAP, discusses how companies in the business ...

Jones Lang LaSalle Puts All Properties in Energy Star Program

Jones Lang LaSalle has become the first major real estate service firm to enroll 100 percent of its managed property in the EPA's Energy ...

In First CSR Report, Deloitte Shows 1.3 Metric Tons of Emissions Per Employee

In its first-ever corporate sustainability report, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu reveals that it used more than 308 million kilowatt hours of electricity in 2008, or about ...

Sweden Mandates Carbon Emissions Labels on Food

New labels listing the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the production of foods, from whole wheat pasta to fast food burgers, are appearing on some grocery ...

Energy-Savings Claims Don’t Add Up for Microsoft’s Windows 7

Microsoft is touting its energy-saving features with the new Windows 7 operating system, but is not making any specific claims about how much power Windows 7 ...

Asda Adopting Own Version Wal-Mart’s Packaging Scorecard

Asda, the UK subsidiary of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., next year will introduce a packaging scorecard similar to what Wal-Mart has been using. The ...

UPS Trying New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks

Using trucks where the engine has no direct physical link to the wheels, UPS is testing a new hydraulic hybrid system for some of ...

EU Takes Tough Emissions Stance for Planes, Ships

The European Union has adopted a proposal to curb airline's emissions 10 percent by 2020, and that of ships by 20 percent by 2020. The move comes ...

Phoenix Gets Hybrid Taxi Fleet

Clean Air Cab, a Phoenix-based taxi company, has become the second taxi cab fleet in the nation to rely solely on hybrid cars. The first was EnviroCAB, in Washington, D.C., using a fleet of hybrid ...

Tesco’s UK Import Warehouse to be 100% Biomass Powered

UK retailer Tesco plans to tap into a 295 megawatt biomass power plant in Teesport, England, to supply 100 percent of the energy needs ...

Coordinated Sustainability Intelligence Generates Potential Tax Benefits

An evolution in green IT is under way as it rounds the bend from a siloed cost-reduction strategy to an enabler of corporate responsibility ...

Rodney Strong Vineyards Goes Carbon Neutral

Already using a 766 kW solar system, Rodney Strong Vineyards has gone the extra step of becoming carbon neutral via purchase of offsets. As ...

Audi Pumps $7.5M into Environmental Foundation, Pledges Emissions Cuts

Carmaker Audi AG is starting a new corporate environmental foundation to bring together all the company's worldwide environmental measures into measures that extend beyond the realm ...