Consumption
Austin, Texas, Joins US’s Top Ten Renewable Energy Buyers
The recent announcement by the City of Austin, Texas, that it is now powers all of its facilities using only renewable energyhas made the municipality ...
GSA Issues Net Zero Retrofit Challenge
The U.S. General Services Administration has announced its Net Zero Renovation Challenge, which aims to get the private sector to improve the energy performance of federal ...
Green Drive Saves Hilton $74m in Two Years
LightStay, the sustainability measurement system used by Hilton Worldwide and its portfolio of 10 hotel brands, has saved the company more than $74 million since its ...
Noveda, Aramark to Partner on College Resource Management
Resource management specialist Noveda Technologies and facilities management firm Aramark have announced a strategic partnership aimed at developing tools to manage energy and water consumption in ...
SageSim Launches Retrofit ROI Simulator
SageSim LLC, a provider of return on investment simulation technology, has launched a residential and commercial energy system simulator.
SageSim-es is a web-based application that uses variables ...
Water Briefing: WeatherTrak, PPG, Converted Organics, Ridgeline
The Dorchester condominium association in Palm Beach, Fla. saved 1.1 million gallons of water after implementing the WeatherTRAK Smart Water Management platform ...
FirstFuel Gets $2.4m Funding Boost for ‘Zero-Touch’ Energy Audit Software
FirstFuel Software has secured a $2.4 million initial round of financing to quickly scale and accelerate adoption of its Rapid Building Assessment platform, which provides remote, ...
Data Revealed: Google Uses More Power than Salt Lake City
Google has broken its silence on energy consumption, announcing that it consumed 2,259,998 MWh in 2010.
In a new section on the Google Green ...
Patagonia to Help Customers Reuse Clothing, in an Ebay ‘First’
Patagonia is encouraging consumers to buy and sell its clothing through a new storefront on Ebay, paired with a customer pledge system.
The outdoor apparel ...
Allstate Cuts Internal Paper Use 41% in Two Years
Allstate has cut its paper consumption dramatically and has continued cutting its carbon emissions, but saw its energy use increase slightly last year, according ...
SABMiller, WWF Seek Water Futures Partners
Brewer SABMiller, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and the German international development agency GIZ have asked businesses, NGOs and other organizations to join their Water ...
WPPI Taps Siemens, eMeter for Smart Grid Install
Siemens Energy is installing meter data management system eMeter EnergyIP for Midwest-based WPPI Energy and its member utilities.
The eMeter management system will allow WPPI members to ...
Toys R Us Includes Environmental Features in 44 Stores
Toys R Us has announced that 21 new stores and 23 remodeled locations, all opening this year, will boast a range of ...
GRI Cuts Electricity, Heating; Conference Emissions Rise
The Global Reporting Initiative’s electricity and heating consumption both fell in 2009/10 while conference-related emissions rose, the organization reported in its latest sustainability ...
Cisco, 1E to Integrate IT and Building Management
Cisco and 1E have signed a partnership agreement to integrate their energy consumption software, according to news reports.
Business Green reported that 1E is ...
Building Cap-and-Trade System ‘An Ingenious Approach’
The world’s first cap and trade system just for buildings could prove a model for other municipalities seeking to cut emissions, according to ...
DuPont Plant Saves 540 Billion Btu
A DuPont plant in Orange, Texas has been honored by the American Chemistry Council for energy-efficiency improvements that saved about 540 billion btu.
The DuPont ...
Data Center Energy Growth Slows, Defying Predictions
Electricity use by data centers in 2010 was significantly below predictions, according to new research by a Stanford University professor.
In research carried out for ...
US Pulls Record Energy During Heat Wave
The extreme heat wave that swept through the Midwest and has now moved to the northeast has massively increased the demand for electricity as people turn ...
Bank of America Cuts Scope 1 & 2 GHGs by 8%
Bank of America reduced its net Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 7.5 percent from 2009 to 2010, according to ...
