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Sustainable Procurement Standard Coming Soon

Purchasing represents a significant piece of a company’s budget. In the public sector alone, procurement accounts for around 12 percent of GDP and 29 percent of government expenditure in OECD member countries. So it makes sense that when considering sustainability initiatives, executives should take purchasing decisions into account. An ISO standard ... Read more »
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Lockheed Martin, Concord Blue Waste-to-Energy Plant Moves Forward

A waste-to-energy facility, expected to be online next year, will process 50,000 tons of raw waste annually, reducing the need for landfill use and powering 5,000 homes and businesses in Herten, Germany. Concord Blue has awarded Lockheed Martin Energy a $43 million contract to proceed with all engineering, procurement and ... Read more »

Duke Energy Renewables, Lockheed Martin Sign PPA

Duke Energy Renewables and security and aerospace firm Lockheed Martin have signed a 17-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for solar generated electricity. The PPA will produce 30 MW – about 72,000 mWh – annually. The electricity will be used across Lockheed Martin’s entire domestic business segments, according to the press ... Read more »

TSCA Bill Would Weaken EPA’s Ability to Stop Importation of Products with Unsafe Chemicals

The Senate is poised to take up a bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), perhaps as early as next week. Supporters of the bill continue to overstate (see also here) the benefits of the legislation, while downplaying or ignoring its flaws — flaws that have led almost the entire environmental ... Read more »

Developing Energy Efficient Electronics with Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

PowerAmerica and Lockheed Martin are partnering to develop a new generation of power-efficient microelectronic devices that will reduce energy loss across the power grid. The partners are turning their attention to wide bandgap semiconductors for their research. Led by NC State University, PowerAmerica is one of five institutes established to ... Read more »
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Grand & Toy Helps Businesses Improve Purchasing

Grand & Toy, an affiliate of Office Depot, has launched a program to help Canadian businesses reduce their waste, energy consumption and chemical use by purchasing environmentally sustainable products. The Greener Office Initiative uses Office Depot’s criteria to define environmentally sustainable products. It also assigns “shades of green” to qualifying ... Read more »
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Sustainable Purchasing Guidelines Launched

The Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council today will release to the public its Guidance for Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing v1.0. Already, 80 organizations including Ecolab, Lockheed Martin, Office Depot, the US General Services Administration and the EPA, with more than $100 billion in purchasing power, have signed up for the Pilot Program, ... Read more »

Major Companies Join Advanced Composites Manufacturing Partnership

Volkswagen, Ford, BASF, Dow Chemical and General Electric are among the 57 companies participating in the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), a public-private partnership aimed at creating jobs and boosting manufacturing within the automotive, wind turbine and compressed gas storage industries. The new Institute, announced by President Obama ... Read more »

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