Tamar Wilner

Tamar Wilner is the managing editor of Environment Energy Pro. She has has 15 years’ experience as a journalist covering business, renewable energy, urban planning, green building and public policy, among other issues, mostly for B2B audiences. She was North America correspondent for Windpower Monthly and has also written for Architectural Record, Regeneration & Renewal, Real Business and Real Finance. She can be reached at Tamar@environmentenergypro.com or 970.377.9505 x15.

LEED Roundup: Conagra, ezStorage, Marine Bio Lab, UCSB

January 24, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Here’s the latest roundup of businesses that have earned the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. ConAgra Foods has won the LEED Platinum certification for its Lamb Weston processing facility in Delhi, La. ConAgra says this is the first frozen food manufacturing plant in ... Read more »

Builder DR Horton Rejects GHG Cap

January 23, 2011January 24, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Shareholders of home builder D.R. Horton voted down a call to adopt greenhouse gas reduction goals. The Nathan Cummings Foundation, which holds 500 shares of Horton stock, proposed that the board of directors adopt quantitative goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from products and operations, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said. ... Read more »

EPA Permits 15% Ethanol in Cars From Past Decade

January 23, 2011January 24, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday raised the amount of ethanol permitted for use in cars and light trucks built in 2001 or later. The EPA approved the use of E15, a blend of 85 percent gasoline and 15 percent ethanol. The previous limit was ten percent ethanol. In ... Read more »

Survey: Reporting Indicates Company Sustainability

January 21, 2011January 21, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The vast majority of those reading sustainability reports – 97 percent – say that sustainability reporting itself indicates that a company is improving its performance on sustainability measures. In the poll commissioned by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), 60 percent of report readers also said that reading a sustainability report ... Read more »

Waste Management Meets Habitat Goal, Cuts Violations

January 21, 2011May 12, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Waste Management (WM) has met its wildlife habitat goal ten years ahead of schedule, according to the company’s 2010 sustainability report. The report says that the waste, recycling and bio-energy company has already met its target of receiving Wildlife Habitat Council certification at 100 landfills. That is up from 24 ... Read more »

World Future Energy Summit Roundup: Vestas, Total, Masdar

January 21, 2011January 21, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Here is a round-up of news that came out of the World Future Energy Summit, the Abu Dhabi conference that closed yesterday: Wind turbine maker Vestas debuted WindMade, a label to designate products manufactured with wind power. The manufacturer hopes to have 1,000 companies signed up as partners by the ... Read more »

DOE Offers $1.2bn to Solar, Bio-Diesel Projects

January 21, 2011January 21, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has offered loan guarantees of $967 million to an Arizona solar plant billed as the world’s largest, and $241 million to a project set to nearly triple the country’s renewable diesel production. The DOE made the solar offer to Agua Caliente Solar, LLC for ... Read more »

USDA Awards Over $400m to Biofuel Projects

January 21, 2011January 21, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday announced over $400 million in grants and loan guarantees for bio-energy initiatives, spread across five major projects and many smaller ones. The biggest news was the USDA’s announcement of $405 million in loan guarantees for cellulosic ethanol plants, under its Biorefinery Assistance Program. ... Read more »

Green Homes ‘Need Cheaper Materials’

January 21, 2011January 21, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Three-quarters of builders and 59 percent of consumers think that the cost of products and materials needs to go down for green homes to become more affordable, according to a survey. The survey for Whirlpool Corporation and Habitat for Humanity by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center ... Read more »

USDA Biobased Labels Debut

January 20, 2011October 18, 2016 by Tamar Wilner

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has launched a voluntary product certification for biobased commercial and industrial products. The “USDA Certified Biobased Product” label will designate products, other than food and feed, that derive a certain proportion of their materials from biological sources. Product categories under the initiative include personal and ... Read more »

Milk and Fruit to Help Power Unilever Plant

January 20, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Unilever has started building a system to derive energy from wastewater at a Dutch Ben & Jerry’s factory. The Paques bio-digester will derive energy from waste products released during the production of ice cream at the facility in Hellendoorn. The BIOPAQ AFR bio-digester will contribute 40 percent of the plant’s ... Read more »

EU Carbon Market Suspended After ‘Theft’

January 20, 2011January 20, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The European Union suspended most of its 72 billion euro carbon market yesterday after the suspected theft of 7 million euros of emissions permits from the Czech Republic’s carbon registry. The EU halted most carbon market operations at all 30 member countries following the attack. It did not give a ... Read more »

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