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Best practices and strategies related to reducing the environmental impacts of energy, water, emissions and waste at factories, commercial buildings and campus-related facilities.

Ethanol Plant Could be Fueled by Construction Waste

A proposed $175 million ethanol plant in Des Moines could pump about $20 million into city budgets in the next five years, the Des Moines Register reports. In addition, a business is exploring building a $22 million facility next to the plant to convert construction waste to gas that would ... Read more »

Advertisers Pressure Magazines on Carbon Emissions

Magazine publishers such as Time Inc. and the Hearst Corporation are beginning to look at the impact of their carbon emissions on the environment. Earlier this year, Time Inc. participated in a study by the Heinz Center that looked at the amount of carbon dioxide emissions produced over the process ... Read more »

EPA Asks Fortune 500 to Double Green Energy Use

The EPA has asked Fortune 500 companies to double their current level of green power purchasing. The goal of the green power challenge is to exceed 5 billion kilowatt hours of green power purchases. Five billion kilowatt hours could power more than 400,000 average American homes or avoid the equivalent CO2 emissions ... Read more »

CFLs Save Phoenix $600,000 Annually

The city of Phoenix has replaced its traditional lighting with compact flourescents and is saving more than $600,000 annually on its energy bills, The Business Journal of Phoenix reports (via Jetson Green).  Mayor Phil Gordon said the city has put more efficient CFLs in 95 percent of its buildings including City Hall, ... Read more »

ASHRAE Publishes GreenGuide

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers has published a GreenGuide focusing on the “design, construction, and operation of sustainable buildings.” The guide aims help teach designers how to participate effectively on design teams charged with producing green buildings. “This is a design guide for mechanical engineers who ... Read more »

Hospital’s Clean Diesel Zone to Cover Vendors

Last year, Portland-area hospitals received a $250,000 grant from the EPA through the Oregon Clean Diesel Initiative (PDF) to establish a “clean diesel” zone (PDF), around all of its hospitals, Oregon Live reports. So far the grant has been used to ensure clean diesel emissions from vehicles in the hospitals’ own fleets. ... Read more »

Power Plant CO2 Recycled into Biodiesel

Arizona Public Service Company has recycled carbon dioxide from the stack gases of a power plant into transportation grade biofuels. Using GreenFuel’s Emissions-to-Biofuels algae bioreactor system connected to APS’ 1,040 megawatt Redhawk power plant in Arlington, Ariz., GreenFuel was able to create a carbon-rich algal biomass with sufficient quality and ... Read more »

Tyson, Smithfield, Perdue Explore Biofuel Production

Big business is taking an interest in biofuels, lured in part by government subsidies, the Clarion Ledger reports. Several of the nation’s biggest meatpackers and livestock producers, including Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods, and other meatpackers and livestock producers are setting up renewable energy units. Smithfield, the largest U.S. hog producer and ... Read more »

DOE, IRS Give $1 Billion in Tax Credits for Clean Coal

The U.S. Department of Energy and the IRS awarded $1 billion in federal tax incentives to nine companies to bring about rapid deployment of advanced coal-based power generation and gasification technologies. Among the winners, $90 million in tax credits was given to British Petroleum to offset the costs of its planned ... Read more »

SunEdison CEO: ‘Pent Up Demand’ for Solar Services

SunEdison CEO Jigar Shah said the company succeeds because it delivers a full-range of services including financing, installation, and maintenance. “I’ve never been in a space where there was such pent up demand for a service as I’ve seen in this industry,” Shah told Marketing Green in a recent interview. “At the end ... Read more »

Super Bowl, Olympics Offset Carbon Emissions

Large sporting events, such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, and World Cup, have been making and fulfilling promises to offset the damage to the environment caused by large crowds and facilities management.  The NFL is planting 3.5 acres of trees to offset about 260 tons of carbon it estimates will be created from this year’s Super ... Read more »


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