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Walmart, Nike, Gap Create Apparel Index

March 1, 2011March 1, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Nike, Target, JC Penney and Levi’s are among the nearly 30 manufacturers and retailers that have created an industry-wide index to evaluate apparel products’ environmental impact. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition, launched today, also includes non-profits, academics and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It aims to reduce the environmental and social ... Read more »

Wal-Mart Releases Greenhouse Gas Protocol Guidance

August 5, 2010August 5, 2010 by Gina Roos

In February, Wal-Mart committed to reduce the carbon footprint from its supply chain by 20 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2015. The project team that has been working to implement that goal is releasing a guidance document that details how these emissions reductions will be counted, reports the ... Read more »

GE Energy Treasure Hunt Yields $2.1M Energy Savings at NY Hospital

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010 by Gina Roos

GE is collaborating with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to bring the company’s internal Treasure Hunt program, aimed at reducing energy waste, to cities, universities, businesses, and other organizations. The program has helped GE reduce its own energy use by making improvements to all sources of energy waste including electricity, ... Read more »

ROI Driving Supply Chain Sustainability

June 17, 2010June 26, 2010 by Paul Nastu

Return on investment is the second-highest driver of supply chain sustainability initiatives among shippers, third party logistics companies and supply chain solution providers, according to a recent survey by eyefortransport. According to the report, which surveyed more than 600 professionals, almost 80 percent of the respondents said that ROI was ... Read more »

Obama Calls for BP Escrow Account

June 16, 2010June 26, 2010 by Paul Nastu

President Obama demanded that BP establish an escrow account to set aside funds to compensate those effected by the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on national television last night. The account is to be administered by an independent third party, according to the president. Democratic senators are ... Read more »

KKR, EDF Green Portfolio Delivers over $160M in Savings

June 4, 2010 by Gina Roos

The partnership between private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has yielded $160 million in savings over two years. The two organizations launched the Green Portfolio Program in 2008 to help the private equity firm improve the environmental performance of dozens of its ... Read more »

Google, GE Share Five Roadblocks to Energy Savings

April 21, 2010April 21, 2010 by Gina Roos

A panel discussion at a recent Fortune Brainstorm Green session resulted in a list of five key roadblocks to energy efficiency, reports Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Panelists included Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and Gretchen Hancock, project manager for corporate environmental programs at GE. The number one barrier is ... Read more »

EDF Consolidates 3 Data Centers into a Single Energy Efficient Model

April 2, 2010 by Paul Nastu

EDF, an energy company in the UK, recently decided to consolidate several older data centers into one energy efficient model. EDF worked with IBM to install the data center, from design to construction. EDF said it gleaned some “best practices” from IBM. The data center has increased airflow to improve ... Read more »

EPA May Track Emissions from Oil, Gas, Other Sectors

March 24, 2010March 24, 2010 by Gina Roos

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to collect emissions data from several additional industries, including the oil and gas sector as well as industries that emit fluorinated gases and facilities that inject and store carbon dioxide underground, as part of the government’s national mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting ... Read more »

10 Ways for the Freight Sector to Lessen its Environmental Impact

March 19, 2010 by Paul Nastu

The future of transporting goods includes solar powered ships, GPS truck-tolling systems and advanced diesel-electric engines, according to “The Good Haul” report from the Environmental Defense Fund. The freight sector represents about 25 percent of the U.S. transportation sector emissions, or about 8 percent of all U.S. emissions. Since 1990, ... Read more »

KKR Extends Green Portfolio Program to 20% of Properties

February 10, 2010 by Paul Nastu

Private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has expanded its Green Portfolio Program to more of its properties. With the move, the buyout firm will see 20 percent of its portfolio adopting greater levels of corporate energy efficiency. KKR started working on the program with the Environmental Defense Fund in 2008. That ... Read more »

SEC Filings Lack Climate Change Disclosures

June 4, 2009October 21, 2009 by Gina Roos

Climate change-related disclosure continues to be nearly nonexistent in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings of global companies with the most at stake in preparing for a low-carbon global economy, according to two new studies by Ceres, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Center for Energy and Environmental Security ... Read more »

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