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AB InBev’s Environmental Efforts Generate $420 Million in Revenue
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) announced it has met its three-year global environmental goals on water, energy, carbon emissions and recycling operations.The company reached its goal of reducing its water usage by nearly 20 percent, the equivalent o... View More
Clariant’s EcoTain Label Marks Sustainable Product Life Cycles
Clariant recently announced it will begin using a new label on its products to certify sustainable attributes in response to environmental concerns and growing consumer eco-awareness.The chemical giant says the so-called EcoTain label indicates a fou... View More
Shell’s ‘New Lens Scenarios’ Predict Near-Zero Global Carbon Emissions by 2100
Shell released new scenarios last week that explore two possible futures with dramatically different implications for society and the world’s energy system. One scenario sees cleaner-burning natural gas becoming the most important energy source glo... View More
NYC Center for Materials Reuse Quantifying Benefits of Product Reuse in Urban Environments
Product Reuse is the exchange of secondhand or surplus products between individuals and/or organizations. This exchange is often performed by social service agencies looking to distribute goods to their clients or to raise funds for their operations.... View More
SolarCity To Help Honda Customers Adopt Solar
SolarCity has partnered with Honda to establish a $65 million investment fund to make solar power more affordable and available to Honda and Acura customers in the U.S. ... View More
Macy's, Sprint Join Presidential Challenge To Increase Building Energy Efficiency
Macy’s, Sprint and Johnson Controls will upgrade more than 200 million square feet of building space to cut energy use by at least 20 percent by 2020, as part of the Obama Administration’s Better Building Challenge. ... View More
Greyhound Installs Telematics to Increase Fuel Efficiency in 1,775 Buses
Greyhound has begun integrating telematics program DriveCam across its entire fleet to optimize safety performance and increase fuel efficiency. ... View More
How Preserving Forests Can Profit Business – An eBook Review
Last year’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro concluded under a cloud of ambiguity. Some organizations called it an outright failure while others deemed it a moderate success. ... View More
Is Your Brand RAD? Partnering with the EPA’s Responsible Appliance Disposal Program
In 2012, EPA’s Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) program celebrated six years and 50 partners. EPA launched the RAD program in 2006 as a voluntary partnership program to help protect the ozone layer and climate system. In its first year, RAD par... View More
Coke, Sainsbury’s Among First To Achieve Carbon Trust Water Standard
Water scarcity has been recognized by the United Nations as one of the most pressing problems facing the 21st-century world. Although 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is water, nearly 1.2 billion people, or one-fifth of the human race, live in are... View More
Google, Verizon, 3M Join DOE’s Workplace EV Charging Initiative
Outgoing U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced 13 major U.S. employers and eight stakeholder groups have joined the Department of Energy’s Workplace Charging Challenge, which aims to increase workplace charging by tenfold over the next five ye... View More
Ocean Spray Slashes Costs, Emissions Through Logistics Collaboration
Ocean Spray Cranberries gained a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gases on top of a 40 percent savings in transportation costs by making smart process changes to one of its primary transportation and distribution routes, according to a new case stu... View More
Unilever Redesigns Aerosol Deodorants For Smaller Environmental Impact
Unilever, the UK’s largest deodorant manufacturer, unveiled a new product design that could make the category significantly more sustainable. ... View More
Circular Economy Not 'Silver Bullet' for Resource Crunch, Paper Says
This article first appeared on edie.net on January 28, 2013.Industrial systems based on circular economy models will be constrained by end-of-life material availability, limiting future improvements in process efficiency, scientists claim. A wider ma... View More
Solar Power Plays Big at New 49ers Stadium
The new football stadium for the San Francisco 49ers will produce enough solar power to offset the energy demands created from home games, the team announced last week. ... View More
Daimler, Ford, Renault-Nissan To Co-Develop Fuel Cell Vehicles
Three global automakers have signed an agreement to jointly develop a fuel cell system to power zero-emissions vehicles. ... View More
Carbon Divestment Is No Financial Risk, Study Finds
Divesting from fossil fuel companies does not incur additional portfolio risk, according to a new report by Aperio Group. ... View More
How Gravity Could Help Save the Earth and Its Residents
Smoking kills. That shouldn’t come as much of a brow-raiser. But did you know that in most parts of the world, it’s not necessarily tar, nicotine and carcinogens that are leading to early deaths? It’s smoke. ... View More
AT&T Home Management Platform Includes Energy Options
AT&T announced a March launch date for its long-awaited Digital Life platform, which will allow homeowners to take greater control of their energy consumption, among other features that are likely to become commonplace in homes of the future. ... View More
Scientists Make LEDs 55 Percent More Efficient by Imitating Fireflies
This post first appeared in Grist on January 8, 2013.LEDs are already much more efficient than any other light bulb out there, but a group of scientists figured out how to make them a whopping 55 percent more efficient — by looking at fireflies. ... View More

