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Organizational GovernanceOrganizational Governance
London Assembly Calls on Mayor to Divest City from Fossil Fuels
London Assembly Calls on Mayor to Divest City from Fossil Fuels
Published on March 16, 2015
About a 5 minute read

Last week, the London assembly told mayor Boris Johnson to pull City Hall’s £4.8bn pension fund out of coal, oil and gas investments, after assembly members voted on a motion to support the fossil fuel divestment movement.The motion calls on the m... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
UCS: 40% Less Fuel Use by Heavy Duty Trucks, Creating $30B in Savings, Feasible with Existing Technology
UCS: 40% Less Fuel Use by Heavy Duty Trucks, Creating $30B in Savings, Feasible with Existing Technology
Published on March 13, 2015
About a 3 minute read

Ahead of the release of a new heavy duty truck fuel-efficiency standard from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this spring, a new Union of Concerned Scientists study, released this week, says new f... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
World’s First Solar-Powered Plane Making Its Way Around the Globe
World’s First Solar-Powered Plane Making Its Way Around the Globe
Published on March 13, 2015
About a 3 minute read

Single-seat, solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2 successfully completed the second leg of its five-month journey around the planet, after touching down in Ahmedabad, India on Tuesday.The journey began successfully after a 13-hour flight from Abu Dha... View More

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Community Updates
SolarCity and DIRECTV Make Solar Power More Accessible and Affordable to Homeowners Across the Country
SolarCity and DIRECTV Make Solar Power More Accessible and Affordable to Homeowners Across the Country
Published on March 12, 2015
About a 4 minute read

Companies announce first-of-its-kind program at DIRECTV facility, launch special deal for solar customers this weekLONG BEACH, Calif. ... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
Pee-Powered Toilet Could Help Light Refugee Camps
Pee-Powered Toilet Could Help Light Refugee Camps
Published on March 12, 2015
About a 2 minute read

Sometimes clean technology doesn't need to be sanitary.Students and staff at the University of the West of England in Bristol now have the opportunity to test out a prototype toilet that uses urine to generate electricity, The Guardian reports.Resear... View More

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Collaboration & Co-CreationCollaboration & Co-Creation
MIT Climate CoLab Announces 22 Contests to Counter Climate Change
MIT Climate CoLab Announces 22 Contests to Counter Climate Change
Published on March 11, 2015
About a 2 minute read

The Climate CoLab has announced twenty-two contests that seek high-impact ideas on how to tackle climate change.A project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Collective Intelligence, the Climate CoLab seeks to harness the kn... View More

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Materials & PackagingMaterials & Packaging
BASF’s Creator Space Hosting Symposium on Smart Energy for a Sustainable Future
BASF’s Creator Space Hosting Symposium on Smart Energy for a Sustainable Future
Published on March 10, 2015
About a 2 minute read

At the first of three science symposia hosted by BASF in honor of its 150th anniversary, to be held this week in Ludwigshafen, Germany, more than 600 top ranking scientists from academia and business will discuss “Smart Energy for a Sustainable Fut... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
UK Researchers Make Cheap Solar Cells From Shrimp Shells
UK Researchers Make Cheap Solar Cells From Shrimp Shells
Published on March 10, 2015
About a 2 minute read

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have for the first time successfully created electricity-generating solar cells with chemicals found in the shells of shrimps and other crustaceans.The materials chitin and chitosan found in the shells a... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
10 Ways to Demystify the Business Case for Net Zero
10 Ways to Demystify the Business Case for Net Zero
Published on March 2, 2015
About a 9 minute read

The energy shift in the world is now inevitable. To sustain life and livelihoods for 9 billion people by 2050, even if we didn’t count on living well (which we do, of course), we have 35 years to transform the global economy in order to decouple ec... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
Electronics Giants Partner with CDP on Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Electronics Giants Partner with CDP on Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Published on February 25, 2015
About a 3 minute read

This week, the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), a nonprofit coalition of many of the world’s largest leading electronics companies — including Apple, Cisco, Dell, Eastman Kodak, HP, Microsoft and many more — dedicated to supply... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
Beyond Incremental: Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan Takes Innovation to Scale
Beyond Incremental: Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan Takes Innovation to Scale
Published on February 25, 2015
About a 10 minute read

Once companies tackle the low-hanging fruit of operational improvement — carbon footprints, energy-efficiency retrofits and waste reduction — they are ready to address deeper sustainability challenges. ... View More

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Innovation & Technology
#BusinessCase: Big Savings Through Waste Reduction Enables Rapanui to Drop Prices
#BusinessCase: Big Savings Through Waste Reduction Enables Rapanui to Drop Prices
Published on February 24, 2015
About a 6 minute read

L-R: Mart and Rob Drake-Knight | Image credit: RapanuiAs more and more brands begin to tout their sustainability credentials, increasingly savvy and conscientious shoppers are looking for companies that are walking their talk, with products and pract... View More

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Organizational GovernanceOrganizational Governance
Citi Launches $100 Billion Initiative to Combat Climate Change
Citi Launches $100 Billion Initiative to Combat Climate Change
Published on February 24, 2015
About a 3 minute read

Citi announced a commitment to lend, invest and facilitate a total of $100 billion within the next 10 years to finance activities that reduce the impacts of climate change and create environmental solutions that benefit people and communities. Citi's... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
Dell on Mission to Measure Net Positive Impact of IT on Education, Healthcare, Logistics and Beyond
Dell on Mission to Measure Net Positive Impact of IT on Education, Healthcare, Logistics and Beyond
Published on February 21, 2015
About a 8 minute read

In Fall of 2013, Dell launched what it called its Legacy of Good plan — a set of 21 ambitious sustainability goals covering everything from its packaging and production materials to reducing the energy intensity of its entire product portfolio by 8... View More

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
Unholy Alliance: Why the Solar Industry's Continued Lack of Diversity Is a Win for Big Utilities
Unholy Alliance: Why the Solar Industry's Continued Lack of Diversity Is a Win for Big Utilities
Published on February 20, 2015
About a 6 minute read

Environmental justice has been a small, but increasingly vocal, component of civil rights activism. After all, many organizations, including the NAACP, have documented the disproportionate health problems the United States’ 370-plus coal-fired powe... View More

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Marketing & CommunicationsMarketing & Communications
Five Years After Deepwater Horizon, Can BP Repair Its Reputation?
Five Years After Deepwater Horizon, Can BP Repair Its Reputation?
Published on February 18, 2015
About a 5 minute read

It has been almost five years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico claimed 11 lives and became the largest oil spill in world history. The crisis unleashed a torrent of criticism against BP, which operated the offshore oil rig. ... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
GM Set to Achieve Renewable Energy Goals 4 Years Early
GM Set to Achieve Renewable Energy Goals 4 Years Early
Published on February 18, 2015
About a 2 minute read

General Motors for the first time is procuring wind to power its manufacturing operations, enabling one of its Mexico facilities’ electricity needs to be run mostly on renewable energy. This addition of 34 megawatts of wind power allows GM to achie... View More

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Organizational GovernanceOrganizational Governance
Carbon Onsetting: A Robust Complement to - or Replacement for - Offsetting
Carbon Onsetting: A Robust Complement to - or Replacement for - Offsetting
Published on February 13, 2015
About a 5 minute read

Whether as competitive differentiation, long-term risk management, or hedging against future regulation, internal carbon fees are becoming increasingly popular with companies as varied as Shell, Microsoft and Disney. ... View More

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New Metrics
The Leaders and Laggards of Sustainability Goals
The Leaders and Laggards of Sustainability Goals
Published on February 13, 2015
About a 4 minute read

Imagine that you arrive to take your first flying lesson. The instructing pilot asks, “How much fuel do you guess we should put in the tank?” You think: “Guess? Come again? Shouldn’t we calculate the distance between where we are and where we... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
New Biomass Plant Will Supply 60-70% of Power at P&G's Bounty, Charmin Manufacturing Facility
New Biomass Plant Will Supply 60-70% of Power at P&G's Bounty, Charmin Manufacturing Facility
Published on February 13, 2015
About a 4 minute read

Procter & Gamble and Constellation — a leading retail supplier of power, natural gas and energy products and services — announced Thursday the development of an up to 50-megawatt biomass plant that will help run one of P&G’s largest U.S... View More

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