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Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle has worked as a writer and editor at newspapers, magazines and online publications for more than a decade covering business, green technology, renewable energy and other environmental issues. She has written for Energy Manager Today, Solar Novus Today, Novus Light Technologies Today and Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Rio+20: Pepsi, Coke, Levi Strauss to Set Water Efficiency Goals; Other Summit Business News

CEOs from The Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, Levi Strauss & Co., Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever and 40 other international companies have agreed to set targets on their own water efficiency and wastewater management in factories and operations, and have called on governments attending the Rio+20 Earth Summit to make global water ... Read more »

Stakeholders’ Environmental Perceptions Affect the Bottom Line, Deloitte Says

News about a company’s environmental behavior affects its market value, according to a report from Deloitte. The report, “Drivers of Long-Term Business Value: Stakeholders, Stats and Strategy,” says an organization’s understanding of how its stakeholders (including shareholders) perceive and value the organization’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues can lead ... Read more »

Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt Among 23 Hotels Launching Carbon Measurement Standard

Fairmont, Hilton, Hyatt, InterContinental and 19 other international hotel companies have agreed on a standard to calculate the carbon footprint of hotel stays and meetings. The International Tourism Partnership (ITP) and the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) formed the Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative Working Group in early 2011 to ... Read more »

Rio+20 Preview: KPMG Roadmap for Business, GRI Reporting in Developing Countries

The UN’s Rio+20 Earth Summit won’t likely result in any binding agreements for businesses, but it may help reinforce sustainable development, according to a report by KPMG International. Some 50,000 participants from governments, businesses, NGOs and lobby groups are expected to attend the summit, June 16-22 in Rio de Janeiro, ... Read more »

OfficeMax ‘Boomerang Box’ Aims to Cut Delivery Box Consumption 80%

OfficeMax has launched a program that reuses and recycles the boxes it uses for deliveries to business customers. The office supply company expects the initiative to reduce box consumption by 80 percent among participating businesses. The program, Boomerang Box by OfficeMax, started this month in Seattle and will expand nationwide ... Read more »

Sprint Says ecoEnvelope Will Save $500,000, 447 Tons of Paper

Sprint Nextel says sending customers bills in “ecoEnvelopes” will save the company just under a half million dollars in operational costs, and the equivalent of 447 tons of paper, in about a year. The initiative allows Sprint customers to receive and send payments using the same two-in-one reusable envelope, which ... Read more »

Panoramic and AtSite Monitor US Green Building Council; BuildingIQ and NV Energy Trial Commercial HVAC Efficiency

Energy management system provider Panoramic Power has partnered with AtSite, which will use Panoramic Power’s P3E to provide its clients — including the US Green Building Council’s headquarters in Washington, DC — with real-time energy usage feedback. The cloud-based P3E system shows energy consumption at the individual circuit level and ... Read more »

Schneider Electric: EnergySTEP Data Center Assessment Can Improve Power Efficiency 20%

Schneider Electric has introduced EnergySTEP Data Center Assessment, which it says can improve a data center’s power usage effectiveness by 20 percent with a payback period of less than 12 months, into its line of energy management services. With EnergySTEP, a Schneider Electric EMS specialist collects and analyzes data on ... Read more »

Bank of America to Cut Energy Use 25%, as Part of $50bn Environmental Initiative

Bank of America says it will reduce its energy consumption 25 percent by 2015, compared to 2004 levels, equal to eliminating 1.2 million MWh of annual energy use from its portfolio. Also by 2015, BoA plans to reduce its paper and water consumption by 20 percent, compared with 2010 consumption, ... Read more »

Fleet Roundup: Shell LNG, Nissan Zero Emission Fund, New Flyer CNG Buses

Shell will supply liquefied natural gas at about 100 TravelCenters of America sites and Petro Shopping Centers in the US beginning in 2013. According to the memorandum of understanding, Shell will construct more than 200 LNG fuel lanes for heavy-duty trucks throughout the US interstate highway system. Last year, Shell ... Read more »

London Olympics to Reuse 90% of Demolition Waste

The 2012 Summer Olympics in London will reuse 90 percent of demolition waste, send zero waste to the landfill and its venues will use 30 to 40 percent less drinkable water than standard, making London the “greenest Games in history,” according to a report by Jones Lang LaSalle. London has ... Read more »


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