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NYC Now Heating Thousands of Homes with Food Waste
NYC Now Heating Thousands of Homes with Food Waste
Published on January 9, 2014
About a 3 minute read

Just before the turn of the new year, when many of us were enjoying our annual season of gluttony, New York City Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway announced a pilot program that will convert the thousands of pounds of food waste currently shipped to out-of-s... View More

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Innovation & Technology
Generating Buzz: BioLite's Co-Founder on Ending Poverty Through 'Parallel Innovation'
Generating Buzz: BioLite's Co-Founder on Ending Poverty Through 'Parallel Innovation'
Published on January 7, 2014
About a 6 minute read

BioLite uses revenues from outdoor recreation products such as the CampStove to incubate products for emerging markets, most prominently the HomeStove. It's a market-based approach to addressing poverty, one that generates self-sustaining energy acce... View More

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New Mac Pro Consumes 68% Less Power
New Mac Pro Consumes 68% Less Power
Published on January 7, 2014
About a 2 minute read

The latest iteration of the Mac Pro desktop consumes 68 percent less power in idle mode and its packaging consumes 82 percent less volume than the previous-generation computer, according to Apple’s recent Mac Pro Environmental Report.In the report,... View More

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Whole Foods' Brooklyn Flagship Store to Use 60% Less Energy Than Typical U.S. Grocery
Whole Foods' Brooklyn Flagship Store to Use 60% Less Energy Than Typical U.S. Grocery
Published on January 6, 2014
About a 4 minute read

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has announced the completion of Whole Foods Market’s flagship Brooklyn store, which it is heralding as a model of energy efficiency and the company’s commitment to protecting ... View More

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Collaboration & Co-CreationCollaboration & Co-Creation
Ford C-Max Solar Energi Concept Provides Sunny Glimpse of Future for Clean Vehicles
Ford C-Max Solar Energi Concept Provides Sunny Glimpse of Future for Clean Vehicles
Published on January 2, 2014
About a 3 minute read

Ford Motor Company announced today the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a first-of-its-kind sun-powered vehicle with the potential to deliver the best features of a plug-in hybrid without relying on the electric grid for fuel. The concept car will be exhi... View More

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Marketing & CommunicationsMarketing & Communications
Mosaic and Mark Ruffalo Make New Year's Resolution to 'Put Solar on It'
Mosaic and Mark Ruffalo Make New Year's Resolution to 'Put Solar on It'
Published on December 19, 2013
About a 3 minute read

Mosaic, the first U.S. company to crowdsource investments for solar projects, is kicking off 2014 with a New Year’s Resolution campaign to “Put Solar on It.” The campaign invites anyone to pledge to put solar on a local home, school, place of w... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
Over 380 Waitrose, John Lewis Stores to Be Powered by Renewables Through New Deal
Over 380 Waitrose, John Lewis Stores to Be Powered by Renewables Through New Deal
Published on December 18, 2013
About a 3 minute read

Already leading the charge when it comes to wiping out its food and plastic waste, The John Lewis Partnership has become the latest company to commit to drastically increasing its use of renewable energy. The UK retail giant recently announced a new ... View More

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
Interface to Use Food Waste to Power Dutch Plant
Interface to Use Food Waste to Power Dutch Plant
Published on December 16, 2013
About a 2 minute read

Global carpet-tile manufacturer Interface has announced it will switch to using 100 percent renewable gas at its manufacturing plant in Scherpenzeel, The Netherlands, beginning January 1, 2014. The company has signed a contract with sustainable energ... View More

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Marketing & CommunicationsMarketing & Communications
Microsoft Releases Carbon Fee Playbook
Microsoft Releases Carbon Fee Playbook
Published on December 16, 2013
About a 2 minute read

Earlier this month, the CDP released a report highlighting 29 public U.S. companies across various industries that have incorporated an internal carbon price as a strategic planning tool, effectively holding themselves accountable for the carbon emis... View More

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Consumer Behavior Change
Making Energy Efficiency Work for Utilities: New Findings
Making Energy Efficiency Work for Utilities: New Findings
Published on December 16, 2013
About a 4 minute read

How can utilities be persuaded to help their customers use less electricity and natural gas? It’s entirely possible, starting with regulatory reforms that remove any linkage between the financial health of our hometown utilities and the amount of e... View More

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Marketing & CommunicationsMarketing & Communications
Caesars Reports Strides in Energy & Waste Reductions, Commitment to 'Vibrant Communities'
Caesars Reports Strides in Energy & Waste Reductions, Commitment to 'Vibrant Communities'
Published on December 14, 2013
About a 4 minute read

In 2012, Caesars Entertainment Corporation achieved a total savings of roughly 750 million kWh since its benchmark year in 2007, representing an 8.5 percent absolute reduction in electricity and gas. The savings equal enough energy to power a communi... View More

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Marketing & Communications
Disney, Wells Fargo, Google Among U.S. Companies Proactively Pricing Carbon, Says CDP
Disney, Wells Fargo, Google Among U.S. Companies Proactively Pricing Carbon, Says CDP
Published on December 6, 2013
About a 3 minute read

CDP announced today that 29 major publicly traded companies based in or operating in the U.S. disclosed an internal price on carbon pollution to CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project) in 2013, detailing both the risk and potential busi... View More

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Lucid, Urjanet Partnering to Increase Accessibility of Building Energy Data
Lucid, Urjanet Partnering to Increase Accessibility of Building Energy Data
Published on December 5, 2013
About a 2 minute read

Oakland, CA-based software company Lucid and utility data management provider Urjanet today announced they are teaming up to solve one of the largest barriers to deploying energy efficiency: the cost of acquiring and managing building performance dat... View More

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
Browns' Food Waste Program Helping Turn Cleveland Into 'a Green City on a Blue Lake'
Browns' Food Waste Program Helping Turn Cleveland Into 'a Green City on a Blue Lake'
Published on December 4, 2013
About a 5 minute read

Waste-to-energy is a trend we’re happy to see growing like wildfire, with new initiatives seeming to pop up weekly that turn waste generated by everything from food and alcohol to heat, humans and ... View More

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New Metrics
How Green Is Your Coffee? New PCR Standardizes GHG Calculation for Coffee Production
How Green Is Your Coffee? New PCR Standardizes GHG Calculation for Coffee Production
Published on December 2, 2013
About a 2 minute read

A new Green Coffee Carbon Footprint Product Category Rule (CFP-PCR) was published this week, providing the first CPR for the calculation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from coffee production. The Green Coffee CFP-PCR rule was initiated by SAI Plat... View More

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New Metrics
#SustyGoals 3: GE's Gretchen Hancock on Context-Based Goal-Setting (Part 2)
#SustyGoals 3: GE's Gretchen Hancock on Context-Based Goal-Setting (Part 2)
Published on November 27, 2013
About a 6 minute read

At SB's third annual #NewMetrics Conference at the University of Pennsylvania in September, the need for next-generation sustainability goals — which measure progress toward real-world goal-lines such as carbon budgets, water tables, and living wag... View More

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Consumer Behavior Change
Greenpeace Praises Google, Apple, Facebook for Duke Clean Energy Breakthrough
Greenpeace Praises Google, Apple, Facebook for Duke Clean Energy Breakthrough
Published on November 19, 2013
About a 2 minute read

Duke Energy Carolinas, which provides roughly 20,000 megawatts of electricity to approximately 2.4 million customers throughout the Carolinas through a mix of nuclear, coal-fired, natural gas and hydroelectric power generation, announced on Friday th... View More

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EPA Relaxes Renewable Fuel Standard While Reaffirming Commitment to Biofuels
EPA Relaxes Renewable Fuel Standard While Reaffirming Commitment to Biofuels
Published on November 19, 2013
About a 3 minute read

The U.S. EPA on Friday backed away from its previously mandated targets for U.S. biofuel production by relaxing the proposed levels of ethanol use outlined in its Renewable Fuel Standard, to address the “E10 blend wall.” The proposal would set et... View More

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
P&G Utilizes More Than 99% of Materials Entering Its Plants
P&G Utilizes More Than 99% of Materials Entering Its Plants
Published on November 19, 2013
About a 3 minute read

Over the past fiscal year, more than 99.35 percent of all materials entering Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) plants were used in products and through recycling, reuse, and conversion of waste to energy, according to the company’s 2013 Sustainabi... View More

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Collaboration & Co-CreationCollaboration & Co-CreationMaterials & Packaging
Driving Innovation: Coke and Ford Unveil Fusion Energi with Interiors Made from PlantBottle Technology™
Driving Innovation: Coke and Ford Unveil Fusion Energi with Interiors Made from PlantBottle Technology™
Published on November 15, 2013
About a 4 minute read

The Coca-Cola Company and Ford Motor Company have teamed up to fuel more sustainable design by collaborating on a first-ever interior fabric made from the same renewable material used to produce Coke’s PlantBottle packaging. ... View More

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