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During this summer when the news channels were repeatedly showing images of corn drying in the fields due to the drought, another news article told a very different story. One that is not seasonal yet has reached epidemic proportions in the US — food waste. This particular article about consumption ... Read more »
Few foresaw the rapid emergence of shale gas development as the growing force in the US energy mix that it is today. In four years, shale gas development has boomed in a diverse set of geographic locations. According to the US Energy Information Agency, the US has 2.214 trillion cubic ... Read more »
Five reporting professionals from Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ING, SBR program NL, WebFilings and Deloitte share their views on the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) and what kind of benefits it offers for businesses, financial regulators as well as standard setters.
Rep. Mark Critz (D), Rep. Tim Murphy (R), and Jim Kunz, Business Manager for the Operating Engineers, Local 66, discuss energy production in the Marcellus Shale region. Part 2 Part 3
SolarCity says its 7.4 MW solar power project that will bring renewable energy to 26 Los Angeles Unified School District schools will save the district more than $776,000 in the first year and more than $25 million over the next 20 years. Seventeen schools have already been installed, and SolarCity ... Read more »
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The global commercial refrigeration equipment market accounted for $29.1 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach $46.6 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of about 8.2 percent from 2012 to 2018, according to a report by Transparency Market Research. Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Market – Global Industry Size, Market ... Read more »
The French town of Maisons-Alfort, a suburb of Paris, is working with Centrax to install a new gas turbine generator package to support its geothermal heating and hot water system available from rocks beneath the Paris basin.
The Building Technologies division of Siemens predicts that Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester Conn., will save nearly $500,000 a year in utility consumption under a $4.9 million energy savings performance contract with Eastern Connecticut Health Network.
SunPower completed the largest solar system in the US Navy, a 13.78 MW solar photovoltaic power system at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS China Lake) in California.
Last month, CDP’s 2012 Global 500 Climate Change report found 81 percent of reporting companies have identified physical risks from climate change, compared to 71 percent in 2011, with 37 percent perceiving these risks as a “real and present danger,” up from 30 percent in 2011 and 10 percent in ... Read more »
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Ikea today announced a plan to become energy and resource independent by 2020, which includes constructing €1.5 billion ($2.4 billion) of wind and solar projects. The retailer’s new sustainability strategy, dubbed People & Planet Positive, includes targets to reach by 2020 and has three focus areas. In addition to producing ... Read more »
Google, which ranked sixth in the EPA’s inaugural rankings of the high-tech industry’s biggest green power users, has dropped out of the Top 20. Intel, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Sprint and Dell retained the top five places on the Top 20 Tech & Telecom list, which the EPA debuted in July, ... Read more »
Transportation research consortium Efficient and Reliable Transportation of Consignments has developed a prototype software platform that can optimize shipment costs and carbon dioxide emissions down to the level of individual deliveries. The ERTOC project, which is a two-year research collaboration between Ricardo, GS1 UK, Unipart Logistics, IRIS Technology and Coventry ... Read more »
Ben & Jerry’s has met the B Lab standards for socially responsible businesses to become a Certified B Corp member. The ice cream maker is the first wholly-owned subsidiary to gain B Corp certification. As a subsidiary of Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s has met additional transparency requirements to earn its ... Read more »
Six of the top seven metro regions leading on a combined index evaluating green buildings, advanced transportation, clean electricity and other sustainability factors are on the west coast. In Clean Edge’s inaugural US Metro Clean Tech Index, which analyzed the 50 largest US metro regions across the clean tech spectrum, ... Read more »
India experienced its worst ever power outage last July when a series of grid failures, over two consecutive days, eventually plunged an estimated 600 million people – half of the country’s population – into darkness. While this causes us to question the reliability of energy infrastructures, a bigger issue is ... Read more »
Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance has announced its new AlphaGuard series of fluid applied roofing systems. The first, AlphaGuard MT, is a roofing and waterproofing system for use on almost any kind of roof needing restoration, for roof replacement, and for new construction. The AlphaGuard MT system is a single ... Read more »
As part of its energy reduction efforts, Clorox has replaced almost 100,000 lights with efficient lighting at all of its North American manufacturing and distribution facilities.The company also completed energy audits at most of its plants in the US and Latin America in the last year. These audits have uncovered ... Read more »
FSinsight editor Jeroen Derwall, Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Center for Sustainability and at Maastricht University, talks about the upward trend that more companies are reporting on their sustainability practices. However, the quality of the reporting differs. He calls integrated reporting “the next step.”
This promo video, produced by the Lighting Controls Association at the 2012 LIGHTFAIR event, introduces the building industry to the Philips OccuSwitch Wireless Light Manager.
The total worldwide capacity of distributed generation contained in microgrids will more than quintuple over the next six years, growing from 764 MW in 2012 to about 4,000 MW in 2018, valued at more than $12.7 billion in vendor revenues, according to a Pike Research report. Microgrids — including generation ... Read more »
Cofely has been awarded a five-year contract to deliver technical services and manage a 1.5 MW combined heat and power plant at the tallest building in Western Europe. The Shard, inaugurated in July, is the newest landmark addition to London’s skyline standing at 310 meters high (1,016 feet) and is ... Read more »
This article is part of a series that expands on the Top Trends in Data Center Energy Management. The first article covered The Must-Know Metrics for Data Center Energy Management, and the second covered Energy Management in Virtualized Data Centers.The previous articles described how IT and facilities managers can improve ... Read more »
DuPont is completing an 8-acre, 1.3 MW solar array at its Parlin, N.J., manufacturing facility.
Working with Cenergistic, Hinds Community College in Raymond, Miss., has achieved $4.5 million in cost savings in 43 months.