North America
Greenscape Begins Construction on Green Parking Lot at DIA
Construction has begun on a new green parking facility in Denver, Colorado, according to an announcement yesterday by Greenscape Capital Group, the owners of the facility. The facility, which is expected to be ...
Hilton Hotel Installs Water Recycling System
Hilton Americas-Houston, a 24-story convention hotel in Houston, Texas with over 1200 guest rooms, plans to reduce its carbon emissions by 260 metric tons, according to a report in the Houston ...
Canadian Forest Industry Signs Conservation Agreement
Twenty-one members of Canada’s forest industry signed an agreement suspending new logging on almost 29 million hectares of the Boreal Forest, according to an announcement yesterday. The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, made with ...
Millipore’s Emissions Increase with Product Demand
Millipore’s greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2009 over the previous year, though they remained below its baseline level of 2006. According to Millipore’s second ...
GE Appliances Achieve ZigBee Certification
GE’s Appliances & Lighting divisions announced that they have received the ZigBee Smart Energy certification for their smart grid-enabled appliances.
ZigBee is a wireless protocol that allows smart grid-enabled appliances to communicate ...
Biomass Plants Struggle with High Costs
Biomass furnaces, which burn waste from logging and sawmill activity to produce steam-powered electricity, often struggle with the high cost of their fuel supply, according ...
Library Lights Way Toward Sustainable Future
A recent article and Q&A published in Library Journal outlined the steps taken by Louise L. Schaper to make ...
Mass Save Contractors Complain About Preferred Vendor
Weatherization and energy efficiency contractors in Massachusetts are protesting changes to a state-wide energy efficiency program they say is sending potential customers to a preferred ...
Ford Highlights Volunteer Efforts
Ford Motor Company highlighted its volunteer efforts Friday with the announcement that 600 company employees and retirees would spend the day ...
West Fraser Selects Carbonetwork’s Management Solutions
Forest products company West Fraser Timber Company has selected Carbonetworks as its supplier for performance management software for energy, greenhouse gas ...
Canadian Lawmakers Pass Climate Change Act
Canada's House of Commons passed the New Democrat Climate Change Accountability Act in a final vote of 149 to 136. The legislation will reduce ...
Tim Hortons Looking for 5% Packaging Reduction
Canadian coffee and breakfast chain Tim Hortons has set a goal to reduce packaging 5 percent across its supply chain and manufacturing operations by 2012, as ...
IMO Proposes North American Emissions Control Buffer
Ships entering North American waters would have to comply with emissions standards once a UN proposal takes full effect.
Members of the UN's International ...
U.S. Utilities Increase Energy Efficiency Programs 43% to $5.3B
U.S. utilities spent 43 percent more on energy-efficiency programs in 2009, according to a new report from the nonprofit Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE), which ...
Improving Operational Efficiency Top Smart-Grid Concern for Utility Execs
Improving service reliability and implementing smart metering are two top smart-grid priorities for utility executives over the next decade, according to a report from Oracle. ...
Convention Center, Engine Plant and Airport Terminal Claim LEED Certifications
Despite a declining interest in the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, a convention center in Vancouver, an engine ...
Western U.S., Canada Move Forward with Carbon Trading Plans
As prospects for a U.S. national climate change bill looks less and less promising, five U.S. states and Canadian provinces are moving forward with plans to ...
Canada Proposes National Wastewater Regulation
Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice has proposed a national wastewater regulation that will set discharge standards for all wastewater facilities in Canada.
Proposed under the Fisheries ...
Canadian Environment Minister Denounces Quebec Vehicle Emissions Regs
Canadian environment minister Jim Prentice said that Quebec's new light vehicle emissions regulation are "counter-productive," a statement that has Quebec countering that the federal ...
Sports Teams Embrace Sustainability
Eighty percent of North American professional sports teams plan to increase their environmental sustainability programs, according to a survey of more than 50 pro teams by ...
