http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/dupont-film-cuts-energy-and-waste/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/dupont-film-cuts-energy-and-waste/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:24:54 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69433 Appliance manufacturer Miele is among the first to use new DuPont packaging film that both saves energy and reduces waste, the companies say. The skin packaging (pictured) is based on DuPont Surlyn, a highly transparent polymer designed to protect susceptible, three-dimensional component surfaces. The product is the result of joint development work between DuPont, machinery [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/dupont-film-cuts-energy-and-waste/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/tool-to-ease-colleges-reporting-for-sustainability-rankings/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/tool-to-ease-colleges-reporting-for-sustainability-rankings/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:02:07 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69429 Starting this Wednesday, colleges and universities will have a single portal for reporting their data to some of the biggest sustainability rankings in education. The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education is launching the free Campus Sustainability Data Collector to collect information for The Princeton Review Green Rating, Sierra magazine’s Cool Schools [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/tool-to-ease-colleges-reporting-for-sustainability-rankings/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/ecologix-launches-fracking-water-treatment-system/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/ecologix-launches-fracking-water-treatment-system/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:18:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69422 Ecologix Environmental Systems, an Atlanta-based wastewater treatment company specializing in the oil and gas industry, has designed a mobile integrated treatment system for hydraulic fracturing that allows the re-use of water for future drilling. Using dissolved air flotation technology, the system can treat up to 900 gallons per minute of frac flowback water. The sped [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/ecologix-launches-fracking-water-treatment-system/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/policy-enforcement-briefing-disaster-risk-solyndra/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/policy-enforcement-briefing-disaster-risk-solyndra/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:01:27 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69396 Insurance commissioners in California, New York and the state of Washington said that insurance companies must disclose disaster response and risk management plans for increasingly severe storms and wildfires, rising sea levels and other consequences of climate change. The new state regulations reveal the insurance industry’s role in mediating the country’s response to climate change, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/policy-enforcement-briefing-disaster-risk-solyndra/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/renewables-briefing-siemens-and-army-bancorp-bets-on-renewables-and-wind-power-getting-cheaper/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/renewables-briefing-siemens-and-army-bancorp-bets-on-renewables-and-wind-power-getting-cheaper/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:53:16 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69417 Siemens Government Technologies Inc. is to build the U.S. Army’s largest solar photovoltaic system at the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. The 4.465 MW solar photovoltaic power generating system is part of a wider $16.8 million contract to implement energy-conserving upgrades. U.S. Bancorp, the U.S.’s fifth-largest commercial bank, is planning to invest hundreds [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/renewables-briefing-siemens-and-army-bancorp-bets-on-renewables-and-wind-power-getting-cheaper/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/power-assure-launches-data-center-management-system/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/power-assure-launches-data-center-management-system/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:35 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69413 Data center energy management firm Power Assure Inc., has announced an integrated data center power monitoring and analytics system that it says improves the reliability and energy-efficientcy of data centers. The system uses Power Assure’s secure cloud-based EM/4 Energy Management software and Raritan’s intelligent power monitoring products. It provides accurate, real-time information on infrastructure performance. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/power-assure-launches-data-center-management-system/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/super-bowl-host-committee-prez-talks-sustainability/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/super-bowl-host-committee-prez-talks-sustainability/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:18:32 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69392 Super Bowl Host Committee President Allison Melangton discusses recycling efforts at the stadium and other sustainability efforts.]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/super-bowl-host-committee-prez-talks-sustainability/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/companies-lured-with-45-electricity-discount/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/companies-lured-with-45-electricity-discount/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:30:08 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69424 Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s biggest power producer, is offering discounts as high as 45 percent to businesses moving to or expanding in the state – but the deal may not help existing customers such as Alcoa. Effective immediately, Santee Cooper is offering new industrial customers a 45 percent discount in the first year, 30 percent [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/companies-lured-with-45-electricity-discount/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/kraft-joins-zero-waste-wave-hits-milestone-at-36-plants/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/kraft-joins-zero-waste-wave-hits-milestone-at-36-plants/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:28:48 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69412 Kraft has 36 facilities in 13 countries that send zero waste to landfills, the company has announced, the latest in a string of “zero waste” announcements from multinational companies. The food company said it now has 12 zero-waste facilities in North America and 24 in Europe. Kraft also said that it reduced its manufacturing waste, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/kraft-joins-zero-waste-wave-hits-milestone-at-36-plants/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/carbon-tracking-declines-among-energy-firms-survey-finds/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/carbon-tracking-declines-among-energy-firms-survey-finds/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:08:18 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69350 A surprising 68 percent of energy and utility industry professionals say they have no system in place to track and report on carbon emissions, up from 58 percent last year, according to a survey by Enviance. And despite their lack of tracking system, more than three-fifths of the 237 professionals surveyed at the EUEC energy, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/carbon-tracking-declines-among-energy-firms-survey-finds/feed/ 0