Retail & Restaurants
Kroger Cuts Waste 30%, Fleet Efficiency up 8%
Kroger manufacturing plants cut their waste to landfill by 30 percent between 2009 and 2010, and the company’s fleet increased its cases shipped per ...
Compliance & Standards Briefing: First ISO 50001, Climate Registered Platinum Awarded
Schneider Electric's head office is the first building in the world to earn the new ISO 50001 certification for energy ...
Ahold to Use EnerNOC Efficiency IT at 630 Stores
Stop & Shop owner Ahold USA is deploying EnerNOC’s EfficiencySMART Insight platform to reduce energy usage and spending across 630 stores.
The system will ...
Marks & Spencer Over Halfway on Plan A Sustainability Goals
Marks & Spencer has achieved over half of the commitments outlined in its ecological and ethical corporate program, Plan A, according to its ...
Home Depot Sued by Calif. Counties over Paint VOC Levels
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), the air pollution control agency for Orange County and much of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and ...
Dry Conveyor Lubricants Save Water for Food & Beverage Companies
Ecolab's DryExx, a silicon-based lubricant used for moving bottles, cans and other containers down plastic conveyor lines, is cutting water use and saving money ...
Marks & Spencer’s Mike Barry Discusses Sustainability
Mike Barry, Head of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer, discusses how 'Plan A' has helped M&S focus on carbon issues ...
REI Sales Growth Outpaces Emissions
REI increased its carbon emissions by 7.3 percent last year, less than the company’s 14 percent sales growth, according to its fifth annual ...
Sears, USPS Efficient Lighting to Save Millions of KWh
Sears says its Canadian stores are making one of the world’s largest replacements of inefficient lighting, the Toronto Sun reports.
More than 130,000 inefficient ...
Utility EDF Guarantees Supermarket $1.6m Efficiency Savings
Morrisons, one of the biggest U.K. supermarket chains, has struck an unusual deal with its energy provider: utility EDF has guaranteed the grocer ...
Ecotality Discusses Installing EV Charging Stations at Retail Locations
Brian Koontz of Ecotality is installing 15,000 electric charging stations across 16 cities in the United States. He describes the benefits ...
Burt’s Bees, Marks & Spencer Share Staff Engagement Tactics
Burt’s Bees sees engaging its employees as the most critical and challenging of all its sustainability targets for 2020, the Guardian has ...
Golden Corral Stores Expect 8-Month ROI on HVAC Controls
A Golden Corral restaurant operator expects to save as much as $252,000 a year, with an eight-month ROI, after the installation of Efficient Energy ...
Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Nation’s Biggest Solar Rooftop Array
Toys"R"Us has announced plans to build the country's largest rooftop solar project at a New Jersey distribution center.
Constellation Energy Group, which recently ...
Consumers Never Heard of ‘Biobased’ – But Know It’s Green
Most consumers say that biobased products are green - even though only a minority recognize the term "biobased", according to research by a biotechnology company....
Small Efficiency Changes Save Big Bucks, Report Says
Submeters, consumption analysis and maintenance of existing systems are three low-capital ways that companies can significantly reduce their energy consumption, according to a new ...
Yvon Chouinard Discusses Sustainable Business, Patagonia
Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard recounts how Patagonia grew from a retail climbing equipment business operating out of the back of his van to a successful global business based on sustainability and social responsibility principles....
Target Joins EPA GreenChill Program
Target has joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) GreenChill program, in a move that the retailer says will further reduce its emissions from refrigeration....
Walmart Sustainability Manager on Creating Change from Within
Rahul Raj, Sr. Manager of Sustainability at Walmart.com, speaking about creating change from within at the Ideas to Impact Conference on ...
H&M Beats Organic Cotton Goal by Wide Margin
Last year Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) used 15,000 tons of organic cotton, over three times its targeted amount, according to the company’s ...
