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EL Pro Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: GE, First Solar, Chesapeake, ULI, Power Assure, Ecolab

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: GE, First Solar, Chesapeake, ULI, Power Assure, EcolabGeneral Electric: Sixteen-year company veteran Andy Holt has been named general manager of renewable energy services at GE Energy. Holt will lead the growing wind ...

May 7, 2012

EL Pro Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Siemens, EnerNOC, Vestas, DONG

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Siemens, EnerNOC, Vestas, DONG  Here's the latest news on hirings and promotions among environmental and energy management leaders. Siemens: The technology firm has appointed Matthias Rebellius to lead ...

May 1, 2012

EL Pro Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: EIA, Carbon War Room, Energy Points, Switch Lighting

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: EIA, Carbon War Room, Energy Points, Switch LightingEnvironmental Industry Associations (EIA): The solid waste and recycling services industry trade group - comprising sub-groups the National Solid Wastes Management Association and the ...

April 16, 2012

Q-Cells, Solar Trust of America File for Bankruptcy; Serious Energy Sheds Staff

Q-Cells, Solar Trust of America File for Bankruptcy; Serious Energy Sheds StaffSolar manufacturers Q-Cells and Solar Trust of America have filed for bankruptcy, leaving the fate of a 1,000 MW California solar thermal project in doubt, ...

April 4, 2012

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Adobe, TripAdvisor, Gamesa, NextEra Energy, GE

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Adobe, TripAdvisor, Gamesa, NextEra Energy, GEAdobe has named Michelle Crozier Yates to the position of director of corporate social responsibility. Prior to the appointment at Adobe, Yates was ...

April 2, 2012

EL Pro Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: EPEAT, First Solar, Green Charge Networks, SolarBridge

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: EPEAT, First Solar, Green Charge Networks, SolarBridgeEPEAT: The green electronics registry has appointed Robert Frisbee as its new CEO. Frisbee has served as the director of development at the Oregon ...

March 19, 2012

Kroger Appoints First Sustainability Director; WRI Names President

Kroger Appoints First Sustainability Director; WRI Names PresidentKroger has appointed Suzanne Lindsay as its first director of sustainability, and in another major hire, global think tank the World Resources Institute named Andrew ...

March 15, 2012

EL Pro Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: AASHE, Barrick Gold, Gamesa, PwC, PNM

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: AASHE, Barrick Gold, Gamesa, PwC, PNMGamesa: The wind turbine manufacturing company has named David Flitterman as its chairman. Flitterman previously held senior management positions at several firms including Bankers ...

March 8, 2012

EL Pro Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Deutsche Bank, Vestas, Sustainability Coalition, FirstEnergy, C3, Ecotality

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Deutsche Bank, Vestas, Sustainability Coalition, FirstEnergy, C3, EcotalityDeutsche Bank: The company has named Thorsten Strauss as its global head of communications and CSR, effective June 1. Strauss is Bertelsmann ...

February 20, 2012

Gore Calls for Integrated Reporting, End to Quarterly Guidance

Gore Calls for Integrated Reporting, End to Quarterly GuidanceCompanies should end quarterly financial reporting and start producing integrated reports, according to former vice president Al Gore and former Goldman Sachs Asset Management ...

February 17, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: State of the Union, ETS Waivers, Tidal Permit, Cal ISO Plan

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: State of the Union, ETS Waivers, Tidal Permit, Cal ISO PlanManufacturers should get incentives to make energy-efficiency improvements to their plants, President Obama said in last night's State of the Union address. He called ...

January 25, 2012

EL Pro Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Petco, Saatchi, WSP, Elster, Navigant, Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Petco, Saatchi, WSP, Elster, Navigant, Sustainable Apparel CoalitionPetco: The retailer has named Jim Thomas vice president of sustainability, safety & environmental health. Thomas was CSR vice president at JC Penney. Sustainable Apparel ...

January 25, 2012

More Firms Appointing Lead Corporate Responsibility Role

More Firms Appointing Lead Corporate Responsibility RoleThe proportion of organizations with a lead role overseeing corporate responsibility shot up to 62 percent in 2011, versus 42 percent in ...

January 10, 2012

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: GRI, American Airlines, EPA, Ameripen, USGBC, Ecotality

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: GRI, American Airlines, EPA, Ameripen, USGBC, EcotalityGlobal Reporting Initiative: The organization has appointed Herman MulderĀ (pictured) as chairman of the board. Mulder is a former senior executive vice-president at ...

January 9, 2012

Facebook Hires Ex-Google Green Czar

Facebook Hires Ex-Google Green CzarGoogle's former green czar, Bill Weihl, will join Facebook in late January, according to the website Fresh Dialogues. The website said Weihl will have ...

December 23, 2011

Ford Environmental and Safety VP Retires

Ford Environmental and Safety VP RetiresFord's group vice president of sustainability, environment and safety engineering, Sue Cischke, has announced her retirement. Cischke will retire February 1 and will be ...

December 13, 2011

Do Companies Need a Culture of Sustainability?

Do Companies Need a Culture of Sustainability?Stuart Hart, the S.C. Johnson chair in sustainable global enterprise at ...

November 11, 2011

Forging a Sustainability Career

Forging a Sustainability CareerThomas Hesterberg of Navistar and Manish Shah of Fos Biofuels talk about their sustainability career paths at the Brennan School of ...

November 10, 2011

Google Green Czar Steps Down

Google Green Czar Steps DownGoogle green czar Bill Weihl quietly stepped down from his post yesterday. Weihl, who headed the company's Clean Energy Team, confirmed his departure ...

November 9, 2011

Father of Green Chemistry on ‘Designing Tomorrow’

Father of Green Chemistry on ‘Designing Tomorrow’Paul Anastas, the coiner of the term "green chemistry," a leader of the EPA's Office of Research and Development, and director ...

November 8, 2011