Environmental Awards
Environmental awards are given out by Government agencies such as the EPA and private corporations each year. These awards recognize innovations that lead to greater sustainability and energy efficiency. Examples of the awards include the EPA’s Energy Star Combined Heat and Power (CHP) award, the EPA’s National Building Competition Award, Platts Global Energy Awards, the award for the GE ecomagination challenge: Powering the Grid.
SAP HQ, Larimer Office Tower Achieve LEED Platinum Certification
SAP has achieved the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification for its North American headquarters, touted as Pennsylvania's ...
BNY Mellon Data Center Earns Energy Star Designation
BNY Mellon's Northpointe Data Center in Pennsylvania was awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Energy Star designation. Northpointe is one of the first data ...
Sierra Names Green Mountain College as Top School in ‘Green’ College Ranking
The Sierra Club has ranked Green Mountain College as the number one "cool school" in its ranking of top "green" colleges. Rounding out the ...
Eaton, JCPenney, PNC Add to their LEED Portfolios
Despite support for the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification slipping in 2009, businesses across all sectors including ...
Hotel Andaluz Reduces Water Consumption 80%
Hotel Andaluz announced that it has reduced its water consumption by 80 percent, according to a ...
MGM Resorts Wins Green Key Eco Award
MGM Resorts has won the Green Key designation for the efficiency and sustainability of its operations at 12 resorts, according to a report in ...
San Jose State Saving $300,000 After Retrofit
San Jose State is saving $300,000 a year on electricity costs after a lighting retrofit project reduced energy consumption at one of its buildings by ...
NetApp First Data Center to Earn Energy Star for Superior Energy Efficiency
NetApp's data center at its technology center in Research Triangle Park (RTP), N.C., has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star for superior ...
Green Bay Plant Goes ‘Zero Landfill’
The maker of Wet-Nap towelettes has announced its Green Bay, Wis. Manufacturing plant will no longer send most of its industrial waste into landfills. ...
Roundup – H20 Innovation, PG&E, ArcelorMittal
Energy Department Lags in Saving Energy
NY Times
"Toilet To Tap" With H2O Innovation
WSJ
Utilities May Shut Smaller, Dirtier Plants Under U.S. EPA ...
Kraft Reduces Waste 30%
Kraft Foods announced that it has succeeded in reducing the net amount of waste it produces by 30 percent in the last five years, ...
Roundup – Burger King, Xanterra, Janssen
Burger King Corp. Receives the 2010 Energy Efficiency Excellence Award
MarketWatch
Xanterra leaves smaller trace
Sustainable Industries
Reusable Bag E.Coli Scare: Industry Exaggeration?
Triple ...
FAA CLEEN Awards $125 Million in New Contracts
The FAA has announced it has awarded $125 million in new contracts with GE Aviation, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, Boeing and Rolls Royce to develop ...
Roundup – Dell, Georgia Pacific, Ritz-Carlton
Where Thoreau Lived, Crusade Over Bottles
NY Times
Dell offers free computer recycling
Just Means
5 Green Data Center Startups You Need to Know...
Gerdau Ameristeel Cuts Energy Use 18%
Gerdau Ameristeel has reduced its energy usage at its Knoxville, Tennessee plant by 18 percent and reduced its natural gas use by 47 percent after ...
Roundup – Wal-Mart, EcoEmissions, EPA
Green Business Blog Carnival #2
Sustainablog
Green Plus North American Sustainable Enterprise Award Winners Announced
gogreenplus.org
Court Freezes Bids to Return Greenhouse Gas 'Endangerment' ...
Roundup – Pro Mach, Food Lion, Panduit
Pro Mach Receives 2010 Green Award for Sustainable Packaging Machinery Solutions
BusinessWire
Food Lion Sees Slight Energy Savings in Cascade Refrigeration
Supermarket News
Panduit ...
Roundup – Coca-Cola, Toyota, Kenworth
Coca-Cola facility recognized for sustainability goals
Waste Recycling News
Cleantech meets green building
Sustainable Industries
Toledo reinvents itself as a solar-power innovator
USA Today...
DesignGroup Earns Autodesk Award
DesignGroup won Autodesk’s BIM Experience Award for extending the use of building information modeling (BIM) to sustainable design, and for the application of a ...
KPMG, PwC UK, and Unilever Tops CR Index
KPMG, Unilever and PricewaterhouseCoopers (UK only) have earned the Platinum Plus rating in this year's Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility (CR) Index. These ...
