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Browns' Food Waste Program Helping Turn Cleveland Into 'a Green City on a Blue Lake'
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
How Green Is Your Coffee? New PCR Standardizes GHG Calculation for Coffee Production
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
#SustyGoals 3: GE's Gretchen Hancock on Context-Based Goal-Setting (Part 2)
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
Greenpeace Praises Google, Apple, Facebook for Duke Clean Energy Breakthrough
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
EPA Relaxes Renewable Fuel Standard While Reaffirming Commitment to Biofuels
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
P&G Utilizes More Than 99% of Materials Entering Its Plants
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
Driving Innovation: Coke and Ford Unveil Fusion Energi with Interiors Made from PlantBottle Technology™
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
Adnams Becomes First UK Brewery to Carbon Footprint Full Range of Bottled Beers
UK brewery Adnams has become the first brewer to measure the carbon footprint of its entire range of bottled beers, estimating that one bottle is equivalent to traveling 5.3 miles by train.The Southwold-based brewer says after a “rigorous six month... View More
WRI Launches Upgraded GHG Emissions Tool
The World Resources Institute (WRI) has announced an update to its online tool that helps businesses measure their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).The Climate Analysis Indicators Tool, or CAIT 2.0, offers free online access to global GHG emissions and... View More
Sochi 2014 Pledging to Be First Carbon-Neutral Olympic Games — For Real, This Time
The upcoming Sochi 2014 Olympics will be the first in history to achieve carbon neutrality, according to a recent announcement by The Dow Chemical Company, the Official Carbon Partner for the Games. This includes carbon footprints associated with the... View More
Report Predicts IPCC Carbon Budget Crisis Could Ensue by 2034
According to new analysis released by PwC, the world is on track to blow its 2°C carbon budget, estimated by the IPCC for the next 89 years, within 21 years. This would put the world on a path consistent with potential global warming of around 4°C ... View More
Envirofit Expands Access to Clean Cooking Tech in Kenya
U.S.-based social enterprise Envirofit International has announced it will join the UN-supported anti-poverty program Business Call to Action (BCtA), with plans to reduce greenhouse gases by 193,500 tons of carbon through the sales of 150,000 clean c... View More
UPS Cuts GHGs by 14,000 Tons Using Big Data
UPS has announced the launch of its route optimization software known as ORION (On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation), which the company expects will save more than 1.5 million gallons of fuel and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more tha... View More
How Aruba Plans to Be Energy Independent by 2020
'Energy independence' is a term we hear a lot of politicians throw around, but not too many actually follow through on their plans or promises.Aruba, however, is actually making good on its goal of energy independence. The tiny Caribbean country is n... View More
REI Data Center Retrofit Reduces Cooling Energy Use by 93%
REI says a retrofit of its data center, which houses servers and backup systems for computers, software systems, REI.com and point of sale for its 132 stores in 33 states, has resulted in a 93 percent reduction in the cooling energy used to operate t... View More
Big Business + Big Data = Big Sustainability
When it comes to sustainability, Big Data is proving to be a big opportunity — businesses are now able to collect, store and process mind-boggling amounts of data. IBM estimates that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day, meaning that... View More
New Waste Management Facility Turning Even More Landfill Gas Into Renewable Energy
Waste Management has announced it is building a facility that will create pipeline-ready natural gas from its Milam Landfill in Fairmont City, Ill. At a ceremony last week at the landfill, state, county and local officials joined the company to celeb... View More
Global Climate Change Investment Falling Short of Need, Report Says
Global investment in climate change plateaued at $359 billion in 2012, roughly the same as the previous year, according to a new study by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI).The Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2013 says this figure falls well bel... View More
LG Electronics Earns Marriott's 2013 Supplier Sustainability Award
Marriott International has awarded LG Electronics its 2013 Supplier Sustainability Award. The annual award recognizes the Marriott supplier that has made a significant impact on its guests and properties through innovative ideas toward helping Marrio... View More
New Report Urges America's 'Dirty Dozen' Supermarkets to Replace HFCs
America’s largest supermarkets and retailers, including Walmart and Whole Foods, are failing to take meaningful steps to replace climate-damaging hydroflourcarbons (HFCs), according to a new report released today by the Environmental Investigation ... View More
