Carbon Footprint
Carbon footprint is the measure of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG’s) caused by a business, society, or individual. Here you will find the latest information on environmental footprint assessment tools, corporate carbon footprints, carbon emissions, and carbon offsets.
AB InBev Sustainability Report: Meets CO2 Target a Year Early; Water Use Down 8%
AB InBev last year cut its greenhouse gas emissions relative to production by 5.3 percent, meeting its goal of a 10 percent reduction on 2009 ...
London Olympics Slash CO2 Footprint by 21%
The organizers of the 2012 London Olympic Games have cut the event's projected carbon footprint by over a fifth, through the use of rented seats, tents and crowd barriers, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek ...
UTC Fuel Cell Powers News Corp’s NY Headquarters
A fuel cell system at the News Corporation headquarters in New York City will soon provide hot water and a significant portion of ...
Arby’s Taps Ecova for Energy Plan
Arby's Restaurant Group is to work with energy and sustainability management company Ecova to create a strategic energy plan targeting short- and long-term energy savings.
Ecova ...
Wells Fargo Targets 35% GHG Cut, $30bn in Green Investments
Wells Fargo is targeting a 40 percent increase in its energy efficiency, 35 percent cut to absolute greenhouse gas emissions, and $30 billion in ...
EPA Releases Green Power List, Microsoft Debuts at Third
Microsoft has ranked third in the EPA's list of organizations using the most green power, and along with McDonald's, ...
Cintas Eco-Apparel Uses 15 Million Plastic Bottles
Cintas Corporation says it has helped eliminate more than 15 million plastic bottles from the waste stream by reuing plastic waste in its ...
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 ...
Ameresco Snags $4.5M Medical Center ESPC
The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada has awarded Ameresco an energy savings performance contract to install more than $4.5 million of improvements at ...
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 ...
Citi Sustainability Report: Meets 2011 10% Carbon Reduction Goal
Financial giant Citi has exceeded its 2011 goal to reduce operational greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent from a 2005 baseline, according to the company's ...
Honda Green Dealer Program Targets 10% Energy Cuts
American Honda Motor Co. has launched a "green dealer" program to encourage 10 percent energy use reductions at independently-owned Honda and Acura dealers in the ...
Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says
Salesforce, the world's largest vendor of enterprise cloud computing, gets the worst ratings in a Greenpeace report that claims cloud computing companies are perpetuating the ...
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 ...
Nestle Sustainability Report: Direct GHGs Fell 7.7 Percent, Per Production, in 2011
Nestle's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.8 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2011, while its production volume increased by 3.4 percent, according to the company's 2011 corporate sustainability report.
Per metric ton of product, Nestlé ...
Hilton Installs Green Roof, CHP Systems
The Hilton New York - Manhattan's largest hotel - has installed a green roof and cogeneration system.
The 16,000-square-foot green roof system was installed by Xero ...
Canals to Cool Businesses with No Upfront Cost
Waterside businesses in the U.K. could use canal water as an alternative to traditional air conditioning at no up-front cost, in a project being led ...
ConAgra Awards Cut 43,600 Metric Tons of Carbon
This year's entries to ConAgra Foods' internal Sustainable Development Awards collectively reduced carbon emissions by more than 43,600 metric tons.
Projects entered also eliminated 61,000 tons ...
Walmart Sustainability Report: Supplier Scorecards to Launch in 100 Categories this Year
Walmart expects to develop supplier scorecards in up to 100 major product categories by the end of this year, in the latest stage of ...
