http://www.environmentalleader.com The Executive's Daily Green Briefing Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:24:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/08/06/att-optimizes-operations-via-efficiency/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/08/06/att-optimizes-operations-via-efficiency/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:40:04 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=19326 AT&T continues to improve technical efficiency as a means toward reducing its environmental impact, according to its 2008 CSR report. Above is a look at AT&T’s data center initiatives. Over the past year, AT&T has: recorded a 43 percent increase in accessories and batteries reused or recycled from 2007 to 2008, resulting in 1.3 million pounds diverted from [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/08/06/att-optimizes-operations-via-efficiency/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/05/13/recycle-to-save-energy-the-sooner-the-better/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/05/13/recycle-to-save-energy-the-sooner-the-better/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 02:05:41 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/05/13/recycle-to-save-energy-the-sooner-the-better/ Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world’s biggest consumer of aluminum cans, lags behind other industrialized nations in the percentage of these cans that we recycle. This is despite the fact that the number of cans sold is fairly constant. If we could recover and [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/05/13/recycle-to-save-energy-the-sooner-the-better/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/18/involving-stakeholders-in-measuring-sustainability-performance/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/18/involving-stakeholders-in-measuring-sustainability-performance/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:29:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/18/involving-stakeholders-in-measuring-sustainability-performance/ In the remote fjords of east Iceland, a partnership between Alcoa, its electrical supplier Landsvirkjun, and various stakeholder groups helped ensure a new aluminum smelter and related hydroelectric facility would balance the environmental, social, and economic effects on a non-industrial area populated by around 10,000 residents. When Alcoa’s Fjarðaál smelter and the Landsvirkjun hydropower facility [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/18/involving-stakeholders-in-measuring-sustainability-performance/feed/ 0