Environmental Conservation

Building U.S. Energy Resilience

Building U.S. Energy Resilience Post Carbon Institute Renewable Energy Fellow David Fridley discusses global renewable energy technology ...

August 12, 2010

Green Rating Systems: Which One is Right for You?

Green Rating Systems: Which One is Right for You? Different green rating systems solve or create different problems depending on who’s using them and what they hope to get out ...

July 29, 2010

Why the BP Oil Spill is a Tragedy of the Commons, Part II

Why the BP Oil Spill is a Tragedy of the Commons, Part IIIn Part I of this column, we asked: Can we use the BP oil spill to create systems which protect our shared resources ...

July 27, 2010

Coal Industry Sues Obama Admin

Coal Industry Sues Obama AdminThe coal industry announced that it will sue the Obama administration over plans to regulate surface coal mining, according to a report in the ...

July 22, 2010

Gibson Commits to Wood Sourcing Legality

Gibson Commits to Wood Sourcing LegalityGibson USA announced today a plan to address legality of such its wood sourcing practices with the assistance from the Rainforest Alliance, according to ...

July 22, 2010

Corporate Water Treatment Market Projected to Reach $2.5B

Corporate Water Treatment Market Projected to Reach $2.5BFrom 2010 to 2015, the U.S. corporate water treatment market is projected to increase from $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion, according to the latest ...

July 19, 2010

Seafood Industry Seeking Sustainable Solutions

Seafood Industry Seeking Sustainable SolutionsSeafood restaurants are looking for new sustainable solutions for their supply chain amid worries that overfishing could threaten the viability of the industry, according ...

July 16, 2010

VA Gov Denies Lifting Bottle Ban For Industry

VA Gov Denies Lifting Bottle Ban For IndustryVirginia Gov. Bob McDonnell denied that he lifted a ban on the state government purchasing bottled water at the behest of friends in the bottled ...

July 14, 2010

Biodiversity Loss a Significant Business Risk

Biodiversity Loss a Significant Business RiskThe loss of biodiversity through the extinction of species poses a significant risk to business profits, according to a recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. According ...

July 13, 2010

Roundup – Isuzu, DoD, MLB

Roundup – Isuzu, DoD, MLBCap and No More Trade Wall Street Journal Small subdivision to coexist with farm, equestrian center Daily Herald Geothermal Energy Could Make the Department ...

July 12, 2010

Colleges Selling Their Green Bona Fides to Students

Colleges Selling Their Green Bona Fides to StudentsColleges are using their green credentials to burnish their reputations with prospective students, according to a report in USA Today. The paper reported that according ...

July 12, 2010

Roundup – Bridgestone, EIA, Germany

Roundup – Bridgestone, EIA, GermanyWestern Climate group sees carbon cuts and savings Reuters Bridgestone to Partner with the World Agroforestry Centre to Assist Rubber Tree Farmers in ...

July 9, 2010

FSC Harmonizes Regional US Forest Standards

FSC Harmonizes Regional US Forest StandardsThe Forest Stewardship Council (FSC–US) announced it has revised its Forest Management Standard for forest operations in the contiguous U.S.  Nine regional standards have ...

July 9, 2010

Reuse IT to Promote Sustainability, Efficiency

Reuse IT to Promote Sustainability, EfficiencyAs many school kids know, the 3Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle – are the fundamental building blocks for protecting the environment. ...

July 7, 2010

Cisco Goes After Enterprise Energy Management Market

Cisco Goes After Enterprise Energy Management MarketCisco has updated to its Smart Connected Buildings portfolio, a collection of services that provide for centralized management of buildings across global enterprise operations. The ...

June 30, 2010

Navy Evaluates New Technologies as Part of Energy-Saving Efforts

Navy Evaluates New Technologies as Part of Energy-Saving EffortsThe Naval District Washington (NDW) has several improvement projects underway to reduce energy consumption ranging from testing experimental technologies to replacing light bulbs at ...

June 29, 2010

Moving Forestry to the Forefront of the Carbon Market

Moving Forestry to the Forefront of the Carbon MarketAn estimated 16% of the total global GHG emissions are directly attributed to the destruction of tropical forests. Forest carbon based projects, w...

June 28, 2010

Roundup – Dell, Georgia Pacific, Ritz-Carlton

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...

June 23, 2010

Cox Recycles 500 Tons of Waste

Cox Recycles 500 Tons of WasteCox Enterprises succeeded in recycling 500 tons of waste last year, according to a company press release. In 2009, Cox announced a partnership with Redemtech, which ...

June 23, 2010

Roundup – McCandless, Dow Corning, Ingram

Roundup – McCandless, Dow Corning, Ingram Free range eggs contain a little something extra: pollutants LA Times Tree-free paper products come from bananas, waste Scripps Howard News Service ERA Carbon ...

June 18, 2010