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Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the state of California on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthworks, Environmental Working Group and the Sierra Club in an effort to stop hydraulic fracturing. The suit accuses the California Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources of failing to ... Read more »
JetBlue Airways selected MaxLite’s HighMax High Output compact fluorescent lamps for a series of retrofit projects in its Orlando-based hangar and training center. Inside the JetBlue Airways Hangar, 75 HighMax 200-watt CFL lamps were used to replace 75 1000-watt metal halide lamps in the high bay fixtures. The new luminaires ... Read more »
A little over a year ago the US Department of Energy started a program called Gateway Solid-State Lighting Technology Demonstration Program. As part of a broader study on energy efficient lighting, the DOE replaced halogen and incandescent lighting at several museums. The outdated lighting was replaced with LED PAR 30, ... Read more »
Using an ozone-based laundry system could save a 95-room hotel $9,331 and cut its carbon emissions by 35 tons over the course of a year, when compared to traditional laundering, according to a report by EcoGreenHotel. The hotel in the study, which is titled Ozone Laundry – 95 Room Hotel ... Read more »
Panel discussion at the 12th International ACTS Conference on engaging the executive in sustainability. – Leanne Denby: President, Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability – Paul Rowland: Executive Director, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) – Prof Ned Pankhurst: Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) & Provost, Gold Coast Campus, ... Read more »
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Illinois’ McLean County Unit 5 school district has saved about $7.6 million since starting an energy conservation program seven years ago. Expected energy costs from August 2005 to July 2012 would have been $28.3 million, based on the 2004-05 performance. Instead, actual energy costs were just under $19.5 million over that ... Read more »
MTC Logistics, a cold storage and shipping company located near the Port of Baltimore, discusses their energy history and facilities situation and use of ICETEC energy services.
The adoption of appliances with the Energy Star logo varies widely between product types, according to the US Energy Information Administration. For example, almost all televisions and dishwashers available in stores in 2011 were Energy Star products, while few water heaters had the efficiency label. Read more at Energy Manager ... Read more »
The University of Connecticut’s water reclamation facility, scheduled to be operational early next year, will have the capacity to treat up to 1 million gallons of non-potable water per day, according to the UConn blog. The reclaimed water from the $25 million facility will help run the university’s cogeneration plant, ... Read more »
Oxford Properties Group is to use Zerofootprint Inc.’s VELO platform to convey real-time energy use from its Royal Bank Plaza in Toronto to the building’s tenants. The VELO system will display energy usage data showing how the building’s 7,500 occupants – from tenants that include Royal Bank and JP Morgan ... Read more »
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On average, EDF Climate Corps fellows each find $1 million in energy savings for their host organizations, such as Google, Facebook and the Boston public school system. This is more than 60 times what it costs to hire the fellows, EDF says. Members of the program, which places specially trained ... Read more »
Rayonier Performance Fibers and the Florida Public Utilities Company have announced a 10-year renewable energy agreement under which the forest products company will sell FPUC excess energy generated by a biomass-based 22.5 MW turbine generator at its Fernandina, Fla. mill. Rayonier installed the $25 million turbine seven years after investing ... Read more »
ThermoEnergy Corp., a wastewater recovery and power generation company, has landed a $1.1 million contract to provide an ammonia recovery process system for Paiton Energy’s new coal-fired generating plant in Indonesia. The ThermoEnergy ARP system will separate ammonia from the power plant’s wastewater, allowing the plant to recycle the water ... Read more »
FuelCell Energy and Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) have brought online a 2.8 MW fuel cell power plant to provide almost all of the baseload power need of a wastewater facility in southern California. The plant converts waste biogas generated at the Regional Plant 1 Facility into electricity and heat ... Read more »
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) create 80 percent of Canadian industry’s harmful environmental impacts and more than 60 percent of commercial waste, according to a report released today by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS), Canadian Football League team the Montréal Alouettes, World Wildlife Fund, Quebec furniture manufacturer Artopex and ... Read more »
Michelin Americas Truck Tires has added three retreads to the EPA SmartWay list of verified technologies, with four more under review. The verified retreads are the XT-1 AT Pre-Mold for trailer applications and XDA2 19 AT Pre-Mold and XDA2 23 AT Pre-Mold for drive axle applications. The retreads also are ... Read more »
As winter and freezing temperatures approach all too quickly, fleet managers have one nagging concern: will their vehicles start as the temperatures drop? School bus drivers and delivery truck drivers all hop into their vehicles and expect to start their engines and drive away within seconds to keep on schedule. ... Read more »
In terms of purchasing, in FY 2012 McKesson selected computer vendors that offer energy efficient equipment, resulting in 327,411 kWh savings. Purchases that contributed to this savings included 12,000 Dell computers and 3,100 ViewSonic monitors. The use of this equipment resulted in $39,358 in energy savings and eliminated the emission ... Read more »
GlacialLight, a division of the experienced technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., announced the new GL-PL0303DA Dimmable LED Panel Light. The new GL-PL0303DA Series high efficiency panel light is the first entry into the GL-PL0303D series. The GL-PL0303DA consumes only 16.5W and comes with a 3 in 1 (1-10V/PWM/Resistor) dimmable driver. This ... Read more »
Eastman Chemical Company announced the addition of Aspira One polymer to its portfolio of resins. Carrying resin identification code 1 (RIC 1), Aspira One is tailored specifically for EBM processes and packaging applications such as clear handleware and large-size bottles, the company says. As a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymer, ... Read more »
The last ever returnable glass Coca Cola bottle in the US has rolled off the production line in a Minnesota bottling facility. The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Winona filled the last bottle last week after deciding that it would be too costly to replace the product’s aging bottling line, reports ... Read more »
Renault has announced it will supply DHL France with a fleet of electric vehicles by 2015, as part of DHL’s GoGreen Program, which aims to reduce carbon emissions 30 percent by 2020. A total 50 vehicles have already been confirmed. The first four will be Kangoo Z.E. vans (pictured), to ... Read more »
Gridnavigator, Bloom General Contracting, and LaFontaine Automotive Group discuss the Energy Management system and green building techniques implemented at LaFontaine Chevrolet Dealership in Dexter Michigan
In the six years since I launched Environmental Leader, I’ve been amazed and awed by the innovation I’m seeing in the products and services offered by companies in the space. From software that helps measure and manage power consumption to green packaging solutions to products that improve energy management to ... Read more »
Middlesex Community College has flipped the switch on a new geothermal project on the Bedford campus. Geothermal technology has replaced the HVAC equipment in Trustees’ House, a three-story, 9,800-square-foot building on the Bedford campus. Coneco Energy was the contractor on the project. In addition to a 2008 federal grant, Middlesex ... Read more »