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It’s already too late to fix some of the problems caused by carbon emissions, according to research led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA Today reports. In findings published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Susan Solomon and the team of scientists and climate ... Read more »
Will Swope – VP of Sustainability at Intel – discusses how the environment need not lose out to the economy in 2009.
Since 2005, green jobs in California have grown at a rate ten times faster than the state’s total job growth of one percent, according to the 2009 California Green Innovation Index (PDF), an initiative from Next 10, authored by Collaborative Economics.By green segment, job growth has been strongest in advanced ... Read more »
It looks like the ShoWare Center, home to the Western Hockey League’s Seattle Thunderbirds, will be the first arena to be awarded LEED certification for new construction, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal. The arena opened on January 2. The arena’s owners are still waiting to hear back from ... Read more »
As the economy declines, so is the amount of trash thrown out by San Diego residents and consumers. Last month, haulers brought in 66,000 tons of trash to the city’s Miramar landfill – a 12 percent decline from the same period last year, NBC SanDiego.com reports. The reason for this ... Read more »
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According to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), hospitals across the country are cutting meat from the menu in attempts to lower their global warming emissions. Though meat options will still be available, staff members will encourage patients to choose healthy meat-free meal choices as part of an overall sustainability ... Read more »
The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs has upgraded its lighting system by replacing the hotel’s incandescent lighting with more than 30,000 energy-efficient lamps. The upgrade is expected to save about $280,000 per year in energy costs and reduce annual electricity consumption by 4.9 million kilowatt hours. The installation, which was ... Read more »
This year’s Super Bowl is going green: the NFL has expanded its environmental program which had basic recycling to include food donations, green energy purchase, and tree planting. Though the NFL admits that while these efforts don’t complete negate the Super Bowl’s impact on the environment, it does make a ... Read more »
The U.S. Postal Service says it saved more than $2.25 million in the last fiscal year due to greener computing initiatives such as server consolidation and recycling ink cartridges. Over the past three years, USPS eliminated some 1,600 servers and reduced hardware maintenance costs by $2 million. The postal service ... Read more »
This week Sun Microsystems unveiled its new energy-efficient data center. Located in Broomfield, Colorado, the power and cooling technologies at this data center will help the company save over $1 million in electricity costs and about 11,000 tons in CO2 emissions every year – or enough energy to power about ... Read more »
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International real estate firm Hines announced that in 2008 more than 100 Hines-owned and/or managed office buildings received an Energy Star label. The buildings – totaling over 54 million square feet – represent a significant increase for the company, bringing their total number of Energy Star labeled buildings to 130, ... Read more »
Underwriters Laboratories, well known for testing product safety, has launched a new unit, UL Environment Inc to verify green claims made by manufacturers. The company says they will work with manufacturers to test, validate and certify environmentally sustainable products: Manufacturers may submit their products for UL testing and environmental claims ... Read more »
LG Electronics launched its “Life’s Good When it’s Green” initiative, which focuses on sustainability through product design, reduction of hazardous materials, and responsible e-waste recycling. In manufacturing, LG aims to reduce its GHG emissions by 150 kilotons per year by 2020. The company plans to cut the lifetime GHG emissions ... Read more »
Regenersis, a European mobile phone recycling and reuse provider, is urging businesses to wipe handsets clean before sending them for recycling, BusinessGreen reports. In 2008, the company processed more than 2 million handsets for reuse and recycling. Last December Regenersis studied a random sample of 2,000 handsets that it processed ... Read more »
Recently, Toyota announced that they’d be offering customers a new hybrid pre-owned certification program. The new program will certify used hybrids and offer a three-month/3,000-mile comprehensive warranty and a seven-year/100,000-mile power-train warranty. They also plan to give consumers an eight-year/100,000-mile hybrid battery warranty. No other hybrid automobile manufacturer has been ... Read more »
Moving companies are cashing in on consumers desire to go green, reports the New York Times. For years, businesses, supermarkets and pharmacies have rented reusable plastic crates to relocate from one office to another. Now the crates are coming to the residential moving market. The L.A. – based company Rentagreenbox.com ... Read more »
The US Air Force awarded a unit of General Dynamics an $18.5 million contract this month to develop a greener jet engine, reported the Dayton Business Journal. The company says the new engine will be designed and built with parts that do not corrode, will not use or release hazardous ... Read more »
In 2008, Wausau Paper Corp. received a grant of about $343,000 from Focus on Energy to launch energy-saving efforts at its mills in Wisconsin. As a result, the company says it will save about $1 million on its annual utility bills, NewsoftheNorth.Net reports. The initiatives are expected to save the ... Read more »
Attendance was visibly lower at this year’s International Builders’ Show, but a record 363 vendors featured green products – more than double the number last year – said a spokeswoman for the National Association of Home Builders, AP reports (via Salon). Increased competition among green product suppliers has driven down ... Read more »
Agents with the EPA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently raided Executive Recycling as part of an investigation into the export and illegal dumping of e-waste abroad, reports The Denver Post. Executive Recycling markets itself as recycling e-waste in the U.S. in an environmentally correct way. But last November it ... Read more »
A new poll shows that people who once put a huge emphasis on the government’s green efforts now have other issues they care about more.The latest Pew Research Center poll shows that the economy and job market have jumped to the top of the priority list for most people. Last ... Read more »
Piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons recently unveiled plans for a new solar cooling system – which is now the largest in the world. The company is housed in over 11 acres of buildings in Queens, many of which are hundreds of years old. The rooftops of these buildings will be ... Read more »
The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee recently approved $20 billion in energy tax credits and related financial incentives as part of the Obama administration’s plan to revive the American economy, reports Reuters. The proposal, which includes $550 billion of government spending and $275 billion of tax cuts, could be ... Read more »
British Airways announced that it plans to half its net CO2 emissions from 16 million tons in 2005 to 8 million by 2050. “We will make progress through investment in cleaner aircraft, use of alternative fuels, more efficient flight routings, and the spread of emissions trading from Europe to the ... Read more »
IBM consulting is now offering a new service called the Supply Chain Network Optimization Workbench, or SNOW. The service provides companies with analysis of their supply chain logistics and suggests improvements to help them reduce CO2 emissions, fuel usage, and costs. The service looks across five major logistics areas of ... Read more »