Travel
Southwest Launches Energy-Efficient Landings
Southwest Airlines has begun implementing enhanced landing procedures at 11 airports, with an aim of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and reducing ...
Leveraging Resources, or Future Planning for Future Rewards
A number of items passing across my computer screen (or my ears from the radio) have prompted an additional ...
Qantas Contemplates $312 Million Biofuel Plant
Australian airline Qantas is evaluating the costs and efficiencies of a trash-burning biofuel plant to be built in Sydney to stave off carbon ...
Ski Resorts Get Grades for Environmental Practices
The big ski resort that is involved in serious real-estate development and the local ski area that is involved in “uphill transportation” leave quite different ...
Sheraton Meadowlands Installing Solar Carport
In a move that will offset an estimated 75 million pounds of CO?, the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel & Conference Center in New Jersey is installing ...
Tony Juniper Discusses Sustainability and the Travel Industry
At the World Travel Market conference, environmentalist Tony Juniper talks about sustainability and what the travel and tourism industry can do ...
Camelina-Based Biojet Fuel Cuts CO2 Emissions 75%
A life cycle analysis of the carbon footprint of camelina-based biojet fuel in the journal Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy concludes that the renewable ...
COP 16 Campaign May Delay Airline Industry GHG Restrictions
CANCÚN — The global airline industry is using political and marketing muscle to push U.N. leaders to establish a sectoral approach to reduce greenhouse gas ...
Ford Uses Recycled Jeans in 2012 Focus
Ford's 2012 Focus will use cottons from recycled clothing in areas such as carpet backing and sound-absorption materials for interior quietness.
One of the clothing materials ...
Qantas Picks New Carbon Offset Provider
The Qantas Group has finalized new supplier arrangements for its voluntary carbon offset program under an agreement with Climate Friendly.
Customer purchases to the Qantas and ...
Business Travel, Telework, Ecotourism in Latest Issue of EL Insights
As mobile technologies become more affordable and reliable, telecommuting will be an attractive option (although, still less than 2% of US employees telecommute), according ...
...Guidance on Social Responsibility and Its Impact on the Hotel Industry
On 14 September 2010, ISO 26000, which gives organizations guidance on implementing social responsibility (SR), was approved for publication as an ISO International ...
Largest Solar Rooftop Project in U.S. Planned For Salt Palace
Salt Lake City's Salt Palace Convention Center could be getting the largest rooftop solar facility in the United States.
NexGen Energy and Bella Energy have been ...
EPA Bans Big Ships from Dumping Sewage Near California Coast
Cruise ships and large commercial vessels will be banned from dumping any kind of sewage -- even highly filtered wastewater -- along California's coast ...
Royal Caribbean Stewardship Report: Fuel Use Down 3.7%
Royal Caribbean's ships reduced fuel consumption by 3.7 percent per available passenger cruise day (APCD) in 2009 over 2008 levels, exceeding its 2 percent reduction ...
New Zealand Launches Energy-Efficiency Initiative for Tourism
The Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIA) and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) have launched a new energy-efficiency initiative aimed at ...
Roundup – Whole Foods, Grubb & Ellis, IBM
Sweetbay Supermarket asks seafood suppliers to show they're sustainable
St. Petersberg Times
IBM's Green Supply Chain
Harvard Business Review
City giving away $1 ...
World Cup Responsible for 2.7M Tons of CO2 Equivalent
The total carbon footprint for the recently concluded 2010 World Cup came to 2,753,250 tons of CO2 equivalent, according to a recent study by Ernst ...
Environmental Mission Statements: Starwood Shows Commitment
In my last two articles, I summarized a variety of hotel environmental policies and outlined a three-step process for ...
