Major Players

GM Rolling out GE Efficiency Program at 20 Plants

GM Rolling out GE Efficiency Program at 20 PlantsA GE energy efficiency program with a less than six-month payback is being implemented at 20 General Motors plants, the two companies have ...

January 27, 2011

Apple Ranks Last for Environmental Response

Apple Ranks Last for Environmental ResponseA coalition of 36 environmental groups has accused Apple of ignoring unhealthy conditions at the Chinese factories of its suppliers. A report (Chinese only) ...

January 24, 2011

Renewable Energy – Only One Important Question Remains

Renewable Energy – Only One Important Question RemainsMany of us look down the road and try to see into the future of clean energy, but actually, most of the handwriting ...

January 24, 2011

Panasonic Unveils Environmental Goals for North America

Panasonic Unveils Environmental Goals for North AmericaPanasonic Corporation of North America has unveiled several new environmental initiatives for its North America operations in an Eco Ideas Declaration which includes specific ...

January 6, 2011

EL Pro Poor Economy Helps Xerox Advance on Sustainability Targets

Poor Economy Helps Xerox Advance on Sustainability TargetsXerox has released its  2010 Report on Global Citizenship Summary and 2010 Environmental Health & Safety Report, which together provide environmental overview ...

December 22, 2010

Chevy Volt, Ford Focus EV Lead In Consumer Awareness

Chevy Volt, Ford Focus EV Lead In Consumer AwarenessThe electric vehicle (EV) brand that will most often lead to a purchase consideration is Ford (17.8%), followed by Toyota (16.7%), Chevrolet (16.0%), Honda (12.6%), ...

December 20, 2010

Boeing’s VP EHS Discusses Sustainability, Corporate Strategy

Boeing’s VP EHS Discusses Sustainability, Corporate Strategy At NAEM's 2010 conference, Boeing's Mary Armstrong, VP of EHS, discussed the connection ...

December 17, 2010

Sustainable Shipping Initiative Adds Industry Giants

Sustainable Shipping Initiative Adds Industry GiantsSix major players have joined Forum for the Future’s Sustainable Shipping Initiative. The 11-member group will work through 2011 to establish a strategy for ...

December 16, 2010

Greenpeace: Sears, Best Buy, Other Big Brands ‘Failing Our Forests’

Greenpeace: Sears, Best Buy, Other Big Brands ‘Failing Our Forests’Sears, Best Buy, Toys R US, Home Depot, and Harlequin are "failing our forests" according to the “2010 Boreal Marketplace” annual report from Greenpeace. The ...

December 16, 2010

Carbon Footprint of an IBM Server: Measuring the Yardstick

Carbon Footprint of an IBM Server: Measuring the YardstickResearchers at Carnegie Mellon have taken on the task of walking a mile in the shoes of Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) measurement standards, in the ...

December 15, 2010

DP World Selects Greenstone for Carbon Management

DP World Selects Greenstone for Carbon ManagementGlobal port operator DP World has selected Greenstone Carbon Management and the CarbonNeutral Company’s carbon management and reduction solution for implementation across its ...

December 14, 2010

P&G Touts First Zero-Waste Facility in North America

P&G Touts First Zero-Waste Facility in North AmericaAuburn, Maine, is the site of the Procter & Gamble Company’s first North American “zero waste to landfill” manufacturing plant. The feminine care facility ...

December 14, 2010

Leveraging Manufacturing for a Sustainable World

Leveraging Manufacturing for a Sustainable WorldI recently attended a conference on high performance manufacturing in Gifu, Japan, focusing on a variety of technical advances ...

December 14, 2010

Networks to Cut Energy Use, IT Firms Say

Networks to Cut Energy Use, IT Firms SayEnergy-efficient network equipment holds the promise of significantly cutting power costs, IT industry figures have said. Dale Cosgro, a product manager at Hewlett-Packard, told Computerworld ...

December 9, 2010

Sustainable Forms of Commerce Emerge in Time for Holiday Shopping

Sustainable Forms of Commerce Emerge in Time for Holiday ShoppingAs we are bombarded by news reports slicing and dicing the “Black Friday” kick off to holiday sales, let’s pause to summon the ...

December 7, 2010

Coke VP at COP16: Coke Climate Action Plans Advance Despite Politics

Coke VP at COP16: Coke Climate Action Plans Advance Despite PoliticsBusinesses need to go beyond footprint, work on handprint Kevin Tuerff sat down with Jeff Seabright (pictured at left), VP of Environment and Water Resources at ...

December 7, 2010

COP 16 End Of Week 1 Press Briefing

COP 16 End Of Week 1 Press Briefing During a press conference at the end of the first week of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, UNFCCC ...

December 6, 2010

ShippingEfficiency.org Rates Energy Efficiency of Over 60K Ships

ShippingEfficiency.org Rates Energy Efficiency of Over 60K ShipsShipping, Environmental, Supply Chain, and Logistics professionals have a new tool in shippingefficiency.org, a new data hub which provides the relative energy efficiency of ...

December 6, 2010

Tinkering Toward a Better Future

Tinkering Toward a Better FutureAs teenagers in India, my friends and I developed our opinions of America by corresponding with pen pals in the United States. We ...

December 2, 2010

Starbucks Turns Used Cups into New Cups

Starbucks Turns Used Cups into New CupsStarbucks Coffee Company, International Paper and Mississippi River Pulp say they have completed a six-week pilot project that – for the first time – proves ...

November 30, 2010