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SMEs Struggle with Sustainability Expertise, Quantifying Benefits

October 16, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

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 »

Walmart Joins Kellogg, Monsanto in Field to Market Alliance

August 29, 2012August 30, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Walmart has joined sustainable agriculture group Field to Market, making it the largest member and first retailer in the alliance whose members include Cargill, General Mills, Kellogg, Monsanto, Coca-Cola Company and World Wildlife Fund, among others, Reuters reports. An initiative of the nonprofit Keystone Center, Field to Market’s members include ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: EPA WaterSense, WWF Check Your Paper, LEED v4, R2

July 3, 2012June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

Rain Bird’s SST Weather-Based Smart Irrigation Controller has earned the EPA’s WaterSense label for verified water savings for lawn and garden use. The controller has a weather sensor with a built-in database of weather information for specific geographic areas, and is designed for use with an automatic irrigation system, the company ... Read more »

Rio+20 Closes with Draft Agreement, No Specific Targets

June 25, 2012June 26, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

The UN Rio+20 Earth Summit ended Friday without a consensus on sustainable development goals, and instead with a draft agreement that lacked specifics and measurable targets. Countries agreed to the draft text of the Future We Want , a document crafted ahead of the summit, which acknowledges the need to establish sustainable ... Read more »

London Olympics to Reuse 90% of Demolition Waste

June 11, 2012June 12, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The 2012 Summer Olympics in London will reuse 90 percent of demolition waste, send zero waste to the landfill and its venues will use 30 to 40 percent less drinkable water than standard, making London the “greenest Games in history,” according to a report by Jones Lang LaSalle. London has ... Read more »

Cargill, McDonald’s, Others Form Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef NPO

February 23, 2012February 23, 2012 by Leon Walker

The 17 founding member of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef have formed an independent, non-profit organization to continue with their goal to realize environmental and industry-related improvements across the global beef industry, the group said. The founding members are representatives from industry, non-profit organizations, associations, academia and think tanks ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: More EPA Delays, Solar Trade Dispute, Chevron Fined

November 23, 2011 by Environmental Leader

The EPA said it will delay proposing the country’s first-ever greenhouse gas limits on oil refineries, the latest setback for the agency that has struggled to fulfill its ambitious clean air agenda, Reuters reported. The EPA had been required to propose the rules by mid-December as part of a court ... Read more »

CSCI: Adopt Network Efficiency Strategies or Pay Up

November 3, 2011November 3, 2011 by Leon Walker

Company executives need to adopt specific best practices for energy efficiency in networks and across connected devices, or unneeded energy use will continue to negatively affect their companies’ bottom lines and productivity, according to a white paper by IT consortium Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Considerations for Selecting Power Supplies for ... Read more »

Exclusive: Sprint Toughens GHG Goal by 5% Under WWF Agreement

October 11, 2011January 11, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

Sprint has upped its carbon reduction goal by five percentage points as it becomes one of just 28 companies to join the World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Savers program. The company now aims to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions by 20 percent by 2017, from a 2007 baseline. In an ... Read more »

SABMiller, WWF Seek Water Futures Partners

September 1, 2011 by Leon Walker

Brewer SABMiller, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and the German international development agency GIZ have asked businesses, NGOs and other organizations to join their Water Futures Partnership. Established in 2009, the partnership has just published its second report, detailing the progress made in identifying, assessing and beginning to address ... Read more »

Kellogg’s to Back All Palm Oil With Green Certificates, in Industry First

March 4, 2011March 4, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Kellogg Company has become the first U.S. food company to back 100 percent of its global palm oil use with certificates designed to reduce deforestation. The cereal maker is buying GreenPalm certificates covering all of its global palm oil use. GreenPalm is a certificate trading program, endorsed by the Roundtable ... Read more »

Supervalu Targets 10% Emissions Reduction by 2012

September 23, 2010 by Gina Roos

Supervalu, through a partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), targets a 10 percent reduction in carbon emissions by the end of 2012, using 2007 as the baseline year. This partnership marks the first major retailer to join WWF’s Climate Savers program. To meet its goal, Supervalu has identified several key ... Read more »

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