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St. Paul city leaders are asking building owners to reduce the energy use of their buildings in an effort to reduce climate change pollution across the city. In an initiative dubbed “Race to Reduce,” city managers will work with property owners to track energy use and make buildings more ... Read more »
Social media giant Facebook has announced it will build a nearly 1 million-square-foot data center at the foot of Eagle Mountain in Utah. Eagle Mountain City, together with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) and the Economic Development Corporation of Utah (EDCUtah) announced the data center will be ... Read more »
Paints and coatings manufacturer AkzoNobel is opening a new powder coatings plant in Changzhou, China, that will help the company meet the growing demand for more sustainable coatings solutions, the company says. The facility – one of the largest of its kind in the world, according to the company – is ... Read more »
Not too many people outside the waste management industry are aware that China decided to stop recycling “foreign garbage,” creating a big impact on USA’s export of waste to that country. The move actually makes sense. China has found imported materials have an unacceptable level of contamination to
Access Fixtures has announced an all-new, high-performance EPTA series of LED lighting. Ranging from 1 to 5 feet in length with lightweight and unobtrusive, extruded aluminum housing, the EPTA sets a new standard for linear LED lighting. The new lighting product is capable of delivering a maximum of 19,035 lumens ... Read more »
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DNV GL, a resource of independent energy experts and certification body, recently published its fourth annual PV Module Reliability Scorecard report, a comprehensive comparison of PV module reliability test results. This year’s report finds that the reliability and durability of modules submitted to DNV GL for testing for the ... Read more »
A new food index analyzed 60 global intensive farming companies on health, environmental, and social issues and categorized 36 of them as “high risk.”
Cargill Inc., the largest privately held corporation in the US, announced that it is working with Nestle Purina and The Nature Conservancy on a three-year water project to improve the sustainability of the beef supply chain. The project partners hope that the initiative will reduce the impact of row crop ... Read more »
Smart meters could help add to the growing adoption of electric vehicles (EV) in the UK, according to a recently released survey, which says more than 8 million people in the UK are considering buying or leasing an EV in the next five years. Smart Energy GB, the government-backed ... Read more »
Schneider Electric has announced the launch of Masterpact MTZ, a high-power, low-voltage air circuit breaker. Masterpact MTZ is designed to protect electrical systems from damage caused by overloads, short circuits and equipment ground faults. And, according to datacenternews.asia, the product comes with a range of new features that increase connectivity, convenience, ... Read more »
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Siemens Gamesa has committed to putting more resources towards developing battery storage technology. The company is now testing a battery storage technology with large future potential. At SGRE’s La Plana R&D site near Zaragoza, Spain, a redox flow energy storage system has been commissioned. The system is connected to the ... Read more »
Smart building management means enabling a building to function efficiently in a digital world. Improving the performance of the systems your building relies upon can reduce operating costs and enable the people inside to work smarter. Lighting is where many organizations start when creating a smart building. Energy-efficient LED fixtures ... Read more »
The Federal Government manages more than 350,000 buildings and 600,000 vehicles, and is the largest consumer of energy in the country, and federal agencies have a new mandate to improve the environmental performance of these assets. A new executive order signed by President Trump directs federal agencies to manage their ... Read more »
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest public oil company, plans to cut methane emissions by 15% by 2020, and to cut flaring by 25%, compared to 2016. The company says that efforts to detect and repair leaks, along with other operational improvements, have already cut methan emissions by 2% in the last ... Read more »
Sustainability expert Josh Prigge discusses the emerging corporate net positive movement, and shares examples of regenerative practices in action.
Blackbaud, a cloud software company aimed at the social good community, announced that its new world headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina, will deliver 80% lighting energy savings compared to fluorescent.
Australia’s Department of Defense is listing eight non-residential properties for sale, but most are contaminated and the cost to rehabilitate them will largely be left to developers.
To save a contractor whose bulldozer slid into a retention pond at the Hi-Crush frac sand mining facility in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, company officials released about 10 million gallons of process water.
Ben & Jerry’s is piloting a blockchain-based retail platform that connects consumers to their carbon footprints. Starting this month, customers at the newly opened scoop shop in Wardour Street, London, can use the Poseidon Foundation’s platform to support forestry conservation.
A new executive order signed by President Trump directs federal agencies to manage their buildings, vehicles, and operations to optimize energy and environmental performance, reduce waste, and cut costs.
Sonnen, a supplier of residential energy storage solutions, has announced the closing of its latest financing round of €60 million ($70.4 million), led by Shell Ventures. This new round of funding will help the German company accelerate growth in markets such as the United States and Australia. “Growing faster than the energy storage market and ... Read more »
The North Face committed to going cupless for its Endurance Challenge Series (ECS), five ultra trail running races that take place across the United States this year.
Customers always pay the ultimate price for power outages, yet the focus of power system resilience lays in strengthening distribution and hastening recovering would be most cost-effective, as opposed to measures that focus on making the power grid more resilient. This is according to a new report by Grid ... Read more »
For some manufacturers, lighting can be an afterthought when evaluating energy reduction projects – but more and more are looking up to bring energy costs down in their plants and factories. It starts with considerable energy savings and stretches all the way to connected environments enabled by smart lighting fixtures. ... Read more »
Hilton has announced it will cut its environmental footprint in half and double its social impact investment by 2030. With this commitment, Hilton will become the first major hotel company to institute science-based targets to reduce carbon emissions and send zero soap to landfill. The company will also double the ... Read more »