Toyota, Neenah Foundry Use State Incentives for Energy Tech
State-level incentives programs in California and Wisconsin have played a role in energy efficiency projects at two corporations. Toyota Motor Sales in Torrance, California, has selected Ballard Power...
View ArticleU.S. Fed Court Upholds Calif. Carbon Curbs
The state of California has had its legal right to enact controls on air pollution upheld on appeal. A challenge had been mounted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and trade body the National Automobile...
View ArticleLearning To Listen: How Social Media Can Spark Sustainability
Not sure which direction to take your company? Open your ears and you’ll be surprised to find answers all around you. Employees, clients, and communities may already be calling your company towards...
View ArticleUniversity of Michigan Cuts Irrigation Water by 68%
The University of Michigan has reduced water usage by 3 percent for fiscal year 2010 – the lowest level used in the past seven years, through various conservation methods and its comprehensive storm...
View ArticleWarren Buffet Stymies Shareholders’ GHG Emissions Reduction Planning
Berkshire Hathaway shareholders reject a measure that would have required the company’s utilities to set goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At the company’s annual meeting Saturday several...
View ArticleMuddled Shutdown at Coke Recycling Facility Keeps Suppliers Waiting
Despite statements otherwise made by Coca-Cola and United Resource Recovery Corp., recyclers have complained of balances unpaid since the March shutdown and layoff of all employees at the PET recycling...
View ArticleCorporate Green IT Awards from InfoWorld
InfoWorld has released its annual Green 15 list, a badge of recognition for sustainability initiatives within the IT sector since 2008. This year’s winners have saved money, time and energy while in...
View ArticleReal Estate Portfolio Managers Seeing the Green
If there is a bright spot for the real estate sector since the rough times brought on by the economic crisis, then perhaps it is the realizations of financial rewards that stemmed from their...
View ArticleYvon Chouinard Discusses Sustainable Business, Patagonia
Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard recounts how Patagonia grew from a retail climbing equipment business operating out of the back of his van to a successful global business based on sustainability and...
View ArticleEnvironmental Enforcement: BP to Pay $85m for Alaska Spill
BP Exploration Alaska is to pay $25 million in civil penalties and install around $60 million in pipeline improvements for spilling more than 5,000 barrels of crude oil on the North Slope of Alaska,...
View ArticleFDA HQ to get $213m Energy Efficiency Refit
The largest ever Energy Savings Perfomance Contract has been awarded to Honeywell International who will aim to make the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s White Oak research center in Silver Spring,...
View ArticlePPAs, Other Deal Financing Tools will Weigh on Balance Sheets
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have amended their accounting standards, writes BusinessTimes. And the new rules are expected to...
View ArticlePeter Brabeck, Chairman, Nestle Discusses Sustainability and Leadership
Peter Brabeck, Chairman of Nestlé discusses leadership and sustainability with IBLF’s Shivvy Jervis.
View ArticlePolicy and Biodiversity: A Price Tag on Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Part 2 of 2
In part 1 of this essay, we examined the poor job our current free market system does of putting a value on benefits we receive from the natural world, and incorporating those benefits into the prices...
View ArticleResource Dieting 2.0
Or, you are what you eat? The discussion on reducing resource consumption along with energy and other consumables continues. We are moving, steadily, from ‘should we’ to ‘how can we’ and ‘how much...
View ArticleGreen Roofs Have Positive Effect on Sewer Systems
Green roofs like the one atop a Con Edison building in Long Island City, Queens can be a cost-effective way to keep water from running into sewer systems and causing overflows, Columbia University...
View ArticleSmall Efficiency Changes Save Big Bucks, Report Says
Submeters, consumption analysis and maintenance of existing systems are three low-capital ways that companies can significantly reduce their energy consumption, according to a new report from Verisae....
View ArticleUnion Carbide, Others Improve Efficiency up to 15%
Union Carbide and Owens Corning are among four manufacturers whose plants have achieved 6.5 to 15 percent energy efficiency improvements through a Department of Energy program, the DOE says. The four...
View ArticleSupply Chain Link in Low Carb Construction
In the last Low Carb Construction piece, I end with a statement intended to evoke the mental image of the treadmill of business operations. As businesses grow and the climate in which we all work...
View Article50 Years of Environmental Law in Canada
2011 is the 50th anniversary of Ontario environmental laws. Our first environmental statute came in 1961: Ontario Water Resources Act (following creation of the Ontario Water Resources Commission in...
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