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More Companies Set 100% Renewable Energy Goals in 2017

December 18, 2017 by Alyssa Danigelis

This year, 100 was the magic number as a slew of influential companies made commitments to use 100% renewable electricity in the future. The RE100 global initiative, which was created by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP in 2014, reached a major milestone over the summer. A total of ... Read more »

LEGO Reaches Renewable Energy Goal 3 Years Ahead of Schedule

May 19, 2017 by Emily Holbrook

Worldwide toymaker LEGO announced yesterday that it reached its 100% renewable energy goal three years ahead of schedule. The company credits the completion of 258 megawatt Burbo Bank Extension Wind Farm, among other initiatives, with helping it reach such goals. In 2015, LEGO announced it would invest $150 million over ... Read more »

L’Oréal USA: Solar at Kentucky, Arkansas Plants

September 21, 2016 by Carl Weinschenk

L’Oréal USA said this week that it is launching solar projects at its manufacturing facilities in Kentucky and Arkansas and that it is on the verge of exceeding its carbon emissions reduction goals. The solar projects will be in Florence, KY and North Little Rock, AR. They will be done in partnership ... Read more »

Will Lego’s $150 Million Sustainable Plastics Challenge Make Biobased the Norm?

June 20, 2016June 17, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Lego is pumping millions of dollars into its quest to find new, sustainable materials for its popular plastic toy bricks. While the company’s goal with this initiative is to build better toys, it may end up shifting the plastics industry away from its oil-based roots. “We expect both established and ... Read more »

Legoland Adds Solar Power

April 22, 2016 by Carl Weinschenk

Legoland Florida and Tampa Electric are erecting a 2MW solar array at the theme park, which is located in Winter Haven, according to The Orlando Business Journal. The solar canopy will be built upon the preferred parking lot adjacent to the park’s entrance. The lot is big enough to accommodate 600 ... Read more »

Skipping the Age of Edison

March 10, 2016March 14, 2016 by Ken Silverstein

As we grapple with transforming our energy infrastructure in response to a changing climate we must solve two important problems; how to provide energy to “low-income” nations developing at a breakneck pace and how to restructure the energy infrastructure within “high-income” nations. Jim Rogers, an electricity infrastructure visionary and former ... Read more »

How to Better Manage Supply Chain Climate Risks

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Supply chains are responsible for up to four times the greenhouse gas emissions of a company’s direct operations and yet half of major companies’ key suppliers don’t provide requested climate data to their corporate customers, according to a study produced by CDP and written in partnership with BSR. The report ... Read more »

Belgium Using Wind to Power Trains

October 27, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

Belgium is using wind to power trains. The Sudpresse reports that 170 trains will use wind energy. The first seven of the 170 turbines that will generate the power went online on Oct. 24, according to Zee News, where the news originally was posted. The reports say that the turbines are ... Read more »

LEGO Invests in a German Wind Farm

October 12, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

Danish Toymaker Lego A/S has taken a stake in a German offshore wind farm but, according to a Bloomberg story, aims to use the energy internally and not enter a new business line. The story says that Lego contributed about one-third of the financing for the 1.25 billion-euro ($1.4 billion) ... Read more »

The Best CSR Reputations in the World Ranked

September 21, 2015September 18, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Google has the best corporate social responsibility reputation, topping the Reputation Institute’s annual Global CSR RepTrak 100 ranking for the second year in a row. BMW took the no. 2 spot, with the Walt Disney Company coming in third, Microsoft ranking fourth and Daimler in fifth. Rounding out the top ... Read more »

Cutting Carbon: What P&G, Time Warner Cable are Doing to Curb Absolute GHG Emissions

September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Procter & Gamble and Time Warner Cable have both set new goals to cut carbon emissions. Procter & Gamble has pledged to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions from its facilities by 30 percent by 2020, against a 2010 baseline. The consumer goods company has currently reduced absolute emissions by almost ... Read more »

Shell Exits Climate Change Corporate Leaders Group

September 15, 2015September 14, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Royal Dutch Shell is no longer a member of the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group — a leading climate change advocacy group it helped start 10 years ago. Shell’s departure comes as environmentalists increasingly call for the oil company to halt its drilling operations in the Arctic Ocean. A ... Read more »

More Companies Set 100% Renewable Energy Goals in 2017

LEGO Reaches Renewable Energy Goal 3 Years Ahead of Schedule

L’Oréal USA: Solar at Kentucky, Arkansas Plants

Will Lego’s $150 Million Sustainable Plastics Challenge Make Biobased the Norm?

Legoland Adds Solar Power

Skipping the Age of Edison

How to Better Manage Supply Chain Climate Risks

Belgium Using Wind to Power Trains

LEGO Invests in a German Wind Farm

Cutting Carbon: What P&G, Time Warner Cable are Doing to Curb Absolute GHG Emissions

Shell Exits Climate Change Corporate Leaders Group

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