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BASF Debuts Compostable Snack Bag at Seattle Mariners Game

September 6, 2012September 7, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chemical company BASF partnered with the Seattle Mariners to debut compostable snack bags at a baseball game yesterday. The first 10,000 fans that arrived at Safeco Field to see the Mariners take on the Boston Red Sox received a free bag of peanuts in BASF’s prototype packaging, developed with its ... Read more »

Starbucks To Recycle Coffee Grounds Into Bio-Plastics

August 21, 2012August 22, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Starbucks is working with biorefinery scientists to turn its used coffee grounds and bakery food waste into bioplastics, laundry detergents and other everyday products. Scientists have completed a successful laboratory testing of the new biorefinery process (pictured), according to Carol S. K. Lin, who led the research team and reported ... Read more »

Lucid Software in Starbucks Energy Trial

August 7, 2012August 30, 2012 by Leon Walker

Ten Starbucks coffee shops are to use cleantech software company Lucid’s real-time Building Dashboard in an attempt to change employee energy use behavior. Developed in conjunction with the Snohomish County Public Utility District and Portland Energy Conservation Inc., the pilot project will be hosted by the coffee in Snohomish County, Wash., and ... Read more »

Starbucks Trials Lucid Software

August 7, 2012 by Linda Hardesty

Ten Starbucks coffee shops are to use cleantech software company Lucid’s real-time Building Dashboard in an attempt to change employee energy use behavior.

Intel Leads Tech and Telecom Green Power Rankings

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Intel has placed first and Microsoft second in the EPA’s first-time ranking of tech companies’ green power use. The EPA publishes the Green Power Partnership rankings quarterly, and Intel is a perennial winner. The company, which uses about 2.8 billion kWh of green power annually — 89 percent of the ... Read more »

Starbucks Cup Sleeves to Cut Raw Fibers 34%

July 23, 2012July 23, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Starbucks has launched EarthSleeve, a compostable hot-cup sleeve that the coffee company says decreases raw fiber material use by 34 percent and increases post-consumer content by 25 percent, compared to similar products. Manufactured in Cicero, Ill. by LBP Manufacturing with Henkel adhesives, the EarthSleeve is being introduced at Starbucks locations ... Read more »

Starbucks, Utilities Test Behavior-Based Energy Savings Program

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

The Bonneville Power Administration has partnered with three Northwest public utilities to test the effectiveness of behavior-based energy efficiency programs. The Snohomish County Public Utility District will challenge Starbucks employees to save energy by competing with co-workers in other store locations. The utility will gather real-time energy use data and ... Read more »

36 States, Cities, School Districts Join Better Buildings Challenge

June 27, 2012June 27, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Thirty-six new states, local governments and school districts have committed about 300 million square feet in building energy upgrades to President Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge, intended to make US buildings 20 percent more efficient by 2020. Partners announced yesterday include Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Santa Fe, Omaha, ... Read more »

Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, Honda Top Global Green Brands Ranking

June 26, 2012June 26, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, Honda, Volkswagon and Hewlett-Packard topped an annual ranking of global green brands by consultancy firm Interbrand. Interbrand’s 2012 Best Global Green Brands report evaluates and ranks companies on their environmental performance as well as the public’s perception of their green credentials. The 2012 report aims to ... Read more »

Coulomb to Deploy 160 EV Chargers, Part of $4.4m NYSERDA Award

June 25, 2012June 25, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Coulomb Technologies has received $1 million to install more than 160 charging ports throughout New York state. In partnership with gas and electric company National Grid, Coulomb will deploy 80 percent of these ChargePoint stations (pictured) in upstate New York, the companies said. The EV charging project is one of ... Read more »

BMW, Frito-Lay, Nike, Starbucks Commit to Support EV Deployment

June 20, 2012June 20, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

BMW, Frito-Lay, Price Chopper, Ikea, National Grid, Public Service Electric and Gas Company, and Ceres’ business advocacy coalition BICEP – on behalf of member companies including Starbucks, Nike, eBay and Clif Bar – are among the 70 companies and organizations that have pledged to facilitate the deployment of electric vehicles ... Read more »

Rio+20: Pepsi, Coke, Levi Strauss to Set Water Efficiency Goals; Other Summit Business News

June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CEOs from The Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, Levi Strauss & Co., Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever and 40 other international companies have agreed to set targets on their own water efficiency and wastewater management in factories and operations, and have called on governments attending the Rio+20 Earth Summit to make global water ... Read more »

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