Consumption
Market Changes, Energy Pricing Driving Enterprise Smart Grid
As the world comes out of recession, smart grid technology is set to emerge with a far wider usage base, according to a ...
IBM Saves $30m in Energy Costs in One Year
IBM saved $29.7 million in energy expenses and conserved 272,000 MWh of electricity in 2010, according to the company's 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report.
The report ...
Ahold to Use EnerNOC Efficiency IT at 630 Stores
Stop & Shop owner Ahold USA is deploying EnerNOC’s EfficiencySMART Insight platform to reduce energy usage and spending across 630 stores.
The system will ...
IBM Launches Building IT; Cuts Energy Use ‘Up to 40%’
IBM today launched its Intelligent Building Management software, which the IT company estimates can reduce maintenance costs by 10 to 30 percent, and ...
Hormel Beats Water Goal A Year Early
Spam manufacturer Hormel Foods has beat its water goal one year early, though indirect electricity use and indirect greenhouse gas emissions are both ...
Campbell's Cuts Packaging, Creates More Waste
Campbell’s saved more than 4.5 million pounds of steel, plastic and paper packaging materials in 2010, but its waste disposal rate was up 15 ...
CVS Unveils Carbon Reduction Goal
CVS Caremark has announced a goal of reducing carbon intensity by 15 percent by 2018, from a 2010 baseline, according to its ...
Abbott Labs Cuts CO2, Water, Waste
Abbott Laboratories cut its Scope 1 and 2 CO2e emissions by three percent in 2010, and its water intake rate by 9.7 percent, ...
Resource Dieting 2.0
Or, you are what you eat?
The discussion on reducing resource consumption along with energy and other consumables continues. We ...
Policy and Biodiversity: A Price Tag on Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Part 2 of 2
In part 1 of this essay, we examined the poor job our current free market system does of putting a value ...
U.S. Fed Court Upholds Calif. Carbon Curbs
The state of California has had its legal right to enact controls on air pollution upheld on appeal.
A challenge ...
How Online Learning Can Get You Closer to Being a Green Business
Green business is big business. Being labeled a green business has rapidly moved from an afterthought to the top of the priority list, ...
Starbucks Misses Energy Consumption Goal, Succeeds on Renewables
Starbucks has missed a target to cut energy consumption at company-owned stores 25 percent by 2010, and has pushed the target back to ...
P&G, Recyclebank Take Rewards Nationwide
Procter & Gamble has announced a national partnership with Recyclebank to reward consumers for taking environmental actions such as recycling, saving energy and reducing ...
Every Company Is an Energy Company
Every company is an energy company. And if it isn’t, it will be soon. A decade from now, a company without an ...
Volvo's Water Use Ratio Drops, Hazardous Waste Increases
Volvo Group’s energy consumption increased in line with sales in 2010, while its rate of water use fell and hazardous waste increased by ...
Caesars, Hilton, Walgreens and More Turning Out the Lights for Earth Hour
Caesars Entertainment, Coca-Cola, Hilton Hotels and Walgreens all plan to turn off lights during Earth Hour tomorrow, in an effort to cut consumption and ...
General Mills Meets Half of 2010 Targets; Sets 2015 Packaging Goal
General Mills has exceeded its targets on solid waste generation and water usage but fallen short of goals on energy consumption and greenhouse ...
SAP Triples Renewables, Reports Cuts in GHG and Energy
SAP reduced its greenhouse gas emissions, total energy consumption and data center energy per employee in 2010, while tripling the percentage of its energy ...
Disney Cuts Electricity Use, But GHG Increases
The Walt Disney Company saw a 0.5 percent increase in direct greenhouse gas emissions between 2009 and 2010, despite reducing electricity consumption by 2.7 ...
