http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:29:41 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69798 Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., is on the cusp of turning on what it says will be the largest ground source heat pump in the U.S., if not the world. The pump will cut the University’s carbon footprint roughly in half, the school says. It will also eradicate almost all of its $3 million [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:51:50 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69794 Air Products has cut the ribbon on a hydrogen manufacturing facility that uses excess gas from a neighboring ExxonMobil refinery when making its product. Hydrogen manufactured at Air Products’ Rotterdam, Netherlands, facility (pictured) is then used by the refinery for the desulphurization of oil products and in the manufacture of petrochemicals. Processes applied at the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/delivering-sustainable-supply-chains/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/delivering-sustainable-supply-chains/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:11:03 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69684 Regulation, along with a drive to improve efficiency and enhance corporate reputation, has encouraged the majority of large organizations to look at how they can measure and reduce carbon in their own business.  As this becomes standard business practice, leading businesses are now focusing on how to make continual, ongoing improvements to their carbon footprint [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/delivering-sustainable-supply-chains/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/durable-refit-materials-can-reduce-buildings-carbon-footprint/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/durable-refit-materials-can-reduce-buildings-carbon-footprint/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:00:39 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69480 Using durable construction materials in maintenance and renovation projects can lessen a building’s the long-term carbon footprint, according to Texas A&M University research. The research, by architecture Ph.D student Manish Dixit, compared the relationship of energy used in maintenance and renovation processes, or “recurrent embodied energy,” to the building’s service life and life cycle energy [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/durable-refit-materials-can-reduce-buildings-carbon-footprint/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/55-airports-now-in-emissions-reduction-program/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/55-airports-now-in-emissions-reduction-program/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:14:58 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69282 Some 55 major European airports are now part of a program aimed at cutting carbon emissions, trade organization Airports Council International has announced. Airports now part of Airport Carbon Accreditation – including London’s Gatwick and Heathrow and both Paris airports – together account for half of all European passenger traffic, The Washington Post reports. The [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/55-airports-now-in-emissions-reduction-program/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/tesco-quits-carbon-labeling/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/tesco-quits-carbon-labeling/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:37:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69116 Tesco, the U.K.’s biggest retailer, has decided to stop using a carbon labeling program a few years after promising to label all 70,000 of its products. Tesco will no longer use the Carbon Trust labels on its products, saying that the program is too expensive and time-consuming, The Grocer reports. The supermarket chain said the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/tesco-quits-carbon-labeling/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/calgon-launches-products-to-control-mercury-emissions/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/calgon-launches-products-to-control-mercury-emissions/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:49:22 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69050 Calgon Carbon Corporation has launched an advanced line of its Fluepac products aimed at controlling mercury emissions in the coal-fired electric power generation market. The new line, which includes the Fluepac MC+ Ultra, Fluepac MC Maxx and Fluepac ST, can reduce carbon injection rates by 50 to 70 percent below that of standard products, while [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/calgon-launches-products-to-control-mercury-emissions/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/software-briefing-ncc-group-ryder-saic-and-thinkeco/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/software-briefing-ncc-group-ryder-saic-and-thinkeco/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:22:28 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69042 Nordic region-based construction and property development firm NCC Group is to start using CA Technologies’ CA ecoSoftware energy and sustainability management system. NCC hopes to use the product to automate its carbon reporting and lower its emissions. Transportation and supply chain management company Ryder System Inc. has launched “RydeSmart 3.0,” the next generation of its [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/software-briefing-ncc-group-ryder-saic-and-thinkeco/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/which-%e2%80%98big-three%e2%80%99-car-maker-wins-on-low-carbon-growth/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/which-%e2%80%98big-three%e2%80%99-car-maker-wins-on-low-carbon-growth/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:10:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68960 Sales of light vehicles to US consumers were up 10% in 2011 compared to the previous year. Revenues are growing, but which US carmaker is winning the carbon race? Last year marked the second year of steady expansion for the top three U.S. car firms – General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler – after a [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/which-%e2%80%98big-three%e2%80%99-car-maker-wins-on-low-carbon-growth/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/report-retrofits-more-green-than-new-builds/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/report-retrofits-more-green-than-new-builds/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:14:46 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68987 Renovating old buildings is better for the environment than building new structures, according to a report by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. According to The Greenest building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse, renovating an existing historic office building in Chicago reduces the building’s impact on climate change by up to 12 percent [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/report-retrofits-more-green-than-new-builds/feed/ 0