http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 17:41:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/06/09/wal-mart-emits-20-trillion-tons-of-carbon-globally/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/06/09/wal-mart-emits-20-trillion-tons-of-carbon-globally/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:14:39 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=16366 [Editors note: A previous headline mischaracterized Wal-Mart's global emissions based on erroneous information from the chart above from the Wal-Mart report.] While seeing an overall rise in carbon emissions to about 20 million tons in 2008, Wal-Mart Stores International is making progress in reducing its emissions per sales. In 2008, the retailer emitted about 53 [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/06/09/wal-mart-emits-20-trillion-tons-of-carbon-globally/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/07/27/data-centers-and-carbon-pricing/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/07/27/data-centers-and-carbon-pricing/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:13:02 +0000 Dave Douglas http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/07/27/data-centers-and-carbon-pricing/ Here in the U.S. the likelihood of an official “price of carbon” continues to grow. Both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama favor a cap and trade system, which would put a hard cap on annual emissions and use a trading system to distribute rights to emit greenhouse gasses. If you operate large datacenters (or anything [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/07/27/data-centers-and-carbon-pricing/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/06/21/peak-carbon/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/06/21/peak-carbon/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:16:30 +0000 Dave Douglas http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/06/21/peak-carbon/ When I write my column for Environmental Leader each month, I’m pretty conservative with the facts and ideas that I use. But this month I’m throwing out an idea that’s, at best, half-baked, and then I’m going farther out on a limb and making a prediction based on it. I’m doing this because I think [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/06/21/peak-carbon/feed/ 13 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/31/you-already-have-an-eco-job/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/31/you-already-have-an-eco-job/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:33:10 +0000 Dave Douglas http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/04/02/you-already-have-an-eco-job/ It seems like every week I get a request from someone at Sun who wants to join our Eco Responsibility team. I used to just explain that we didn’t have any positions open, but then I realized that we were missing a huge opportunity. These are employees with passion for sustainability and a deep knowledge [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/31/you-already-have-an-eco-job/feed/ 4 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/09/disorders-of-magnitude/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/09/disorders-of-magnitude/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:58:55 +0000 Dave Douglas http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/09/disorders-of-magnitude/ Human beings are good at numbers, but only within a small range. Most of us can imagine how big “One Hundred” is, and even have pretty good sense of “One Thousand.” But if asked to imagine the number “One Million” (a thousand thousands), or worse yet, “One Billion” (a thousand millions), our minds have a [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/09/disorders-of-magnitude/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/01/28/register-now-for-green-sustainable-efficiency-world-2008/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/01/28/register-now-for-green-sustainable-efficiency-world-2008/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:07:18 +0000 Dave Douglas http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/01/28/register-now-for-green-sustainable-efficiency-world-2008/ Reflecting back on 2007, one industry clearly stands out as having benefited big time from the growing interest in sustainability: the conference industry. It seems like every week has offered at least one, and often more, chances to attend a brand new sustainability, efficiency or environmental conference of some kind. The obvious question is whether [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/01/28/register-now-for-green-sustainable-efficiency-world-2008/feed/ 7