Major Players
GM Rolling out GE Efficiency Program at 20 Plants
A GE energy efficiency program with a less than six-month payback is being implemented at 20 General Motors plants, the two companies have ...
Apple Ranks Last for Environmental Response
A coalition of 36 environmental groups has accused Apple of ignoring unhealthy conditions at the Chinese factories of its suppliers.
A report (Chinese only) ...
Renewable Energy – Only One Important Question Remains
Many of us look down the road and try to see into the future of clean energy, but actually, most of the handwriting ...
Panasonic Unveils Environmental Goals for North America
Panasonic Corporation of North America has unveiled several new environmental initiatives for its North America operations in an Eco Ideas Declaration which includes specific ...
Poor Economy Helps Xerox Advance on Sustainability Targets
Xerox has released its 2010 Report on Global Citizenship Summary and 2010 Environmental Health & Safety Report, which together provide environmental overview ...
Chevy Volt, Ford Focus EV Lead In Consumer Awareness
The 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%), ...
Boeing’s VP EHS Discusses Sustainability, Corporate Strategy
At NAEM's 2010 conference, Boeing's Mary Armstrong, VP of EHS, discussed the connection ...
Sustainable Shipping Initiative Adds Industry Giants
Six 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 ...
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 ...
Carbon Footprint of an IBM Server: Measuring the Yardstick
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have taken on the task of walking a mile in the shoes of Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) measurement standards, in the ...
DP World Selects Greenstone for Carbon Management
Global port operator DP World has selected Greenstone Carbon Management and the CarbonNeutral Company’s carbon management and reduction solution for implementation across its ...
P&G Touts First Zero-Waste Facility in North America
Auburn, Maine, is the site of the Procter & Gamble Company’s first North American “zero waste to landfill” manufacturing plant. The feminine care facility ...
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 ...
Networks to Cut Energy Use, IT Firms Say
Energy-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 ...
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 ...
Coke VP at COP16: Coke Climate Action Plans Advance Despite Politics
Businesses 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 ...
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 ...
ShippingEfficiency.org Rates Energy Efficiency of Over 60K Ships
Shipping, Environmental, Supply Chain, and Logistics professionals have a new tool in shippingefficiency.org, a new data hub which provides the relative energy efficiency of ...
Tinkering Toward a Better Future
As teenagers in India, my friends and I developed our opinions of America by corresponding with pen pals in the United States. We ...
Starbucks Turns Used Cups into New Cups
Starbucks Coffee Company, International Paper and Mississippi River Pulp say they have completed a six-week pilot project that – for the first time – proves ...
