Consumption
Cox Enterprises and Urjanet to Track Energy Use Across 30,000 Accounts
Cox Enterprises, the communications and auto services firm, has announced it will track energy usage and costs for 30,000 utility accounts using services ...
Stepping toward Corporate Sustainability Footprinting
I challenge you: name a corporate sustainability rating that earns its title—namely, by rating a company’s actual sustainability. Or a corporate sustainability ...
Sustainable Development, Part II: the Three-Legged Stool
In Part 1 of this article, we defined sustainable development as a balanced approach to achieving a better quality of life ...
Sustainable Consumption Part II: Everyone Wants a Label
Last time we started to introduce the issues around sustainable consumption - from a manufacturing perspective. I know ...
How Does Sustainable Development Work? Part I
Sustainable development can best be thought of as a balanced approach to achieving a better quality of life for more people – ...
Sustainable Energy Procurement Recommendations for Schools
Energy procurement represents a significant percentage of public sector expenditure, accounting for some £3.25 billion ($5.3 billion) annually. Clearly, an effective ...
‘A Christmas Carol’ Gets Sustainability Remake
One of the things that formed part of our recent holiday routine was watching the Alastair Sims version of ...
Bacardi Improves Energy, Water Efficiency
Bacardi has reduced water consumption by 27 percent and energy use by 11 percent, year-on-year.
The liquor company’s 2010 corporate responsibility report (pdf) ...
Environmental Reporting Pressures Greater than Ever
Environmental managers are becoming responsible for reporting ever-larger amounts of data, which they need to dissect in more and more ways, according to participants ...
Leveraging Resources, or Future Planning for Future Rewards
A number of items passing across my computer screen (or my ears from the radio) have prompted an additional ...
Did We Move the Corporate Sustainability Ball Forward in 2010?
When I first sat down to write this month’s column, I told myself that I would not create a year-end "best of" ...
Leveraging Manufacturing for a Sustainable World
I recently attended a conference on high performance manufacturing in Gifu, Japan, focusing on a variety of technical advances ...
Sustainable Forms of Commerce Emerge in Time for Holiday Shopping
As we are bombarded by news reports slicing and dicing the “Black Friday” kick off to holiday sales, let’s pause to summon the ...
Why Cancun is the Place to Be… for Energy Innovation
A year ago, the world was hopeful that a global agreement would come out of the COP15 sessions in Copenhagen. With the United ...
General Mills Sets New Sustainability Goals for 2015
General Mills has set four new global environmental sustainability goals for 2015. These goals include reducing water use, energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) ...
For Telecom Industry, Energy Efficiency is Only Half of the Equation
Whichever phrase you chose – sustainability, ecology management, environmental stewardship, or simply green – it’s clear that the telecom industry is fully ...
What Gets Measured Gets Managed
At Walmart, we have just completed our fifth annual carbon emissions compilation and public submission of our greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint. For the ...
Drinking from a Firehose: Data Collection Part II
Recently I attended the IMTS in Chicago also known as the "greatest (manufacturing) show on earth" to paraphrase Barnum ...
Data Collection for Energy and Resource Monitoring
I mentioned in my last article that I was attending a manufacturing conference in Italy the end of ...
EPA Outlines Five-Year Plan
Five strategic goals will help the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) meet its plans for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, protecting U.S. waters, advancing ...
