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New York, September 13, 2012
Recognized as World-Class Sustainability Leader In the S&P's Industrials Sector
For the second consecutive year, UPS (NYSE: UPS) has received the highest score in the 2012 Carbon Disclosure Project's "Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index" of S&P companies, receiving a 99 out of 100.
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Game-changing breakthrough to make snack packaging more sustainable
BASF partners with Seattle Mariners to debut new compostable snack bags
SEATTLE, WA, & Wyandotte, MI, September 4, 2012 -- BASF, The Chemical Company, has made a game-changing breakthrough towards sustainable snack packaging that can help companies and communities everywhere get closer to their goal of zero-waste.
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New tool enables specifiers, purchasers, and other EPD users to access critical product impact information quickly, easily, and consistently
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rachel Belew, UL Environment
Phone: 678.444.4047
Email: [email protected]
Kate Rusnak
UL Environment
Phone: 613.247.0440, ext. 250
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BASF opens new headquarters building in Florham Park, New Jersey
• Company showcases its commitment to a sustainable future
• Outlines plans for growth in North America
• Construction of a new formic acid plant in Geismar, Louisiana
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BASF opens new headquarters building in Florham Park
Company showcases its commitment to a sustainable future
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Installation of 120 solar panels at Becker Underwood’s Littlehampton, United Kingdom facility
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Firms seek to reduce carbon emissions in Iowa, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania
A new technology for OnStar systems may one day allow Chevrolet Volt owners to charge their electric cars with more renewable energy.OnStar and Google are working together to demonstrate the technology on the 17 Chevrolet Volts in Google’s electric vehicle based at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
Green logistics initiatives allowed carmaker Honda to reduce transportation requirements needed to support its North American production, the company said in its seventh annual North American Environmental report.
Owners of Kindle e-readers now have the option to power their devices in a sunny window.
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Most of us who visit these pages are quite familiar with how Walmart used its influence to drive sustainability improvements in its supply chain. But were the gains really about sustainability at all? Strictly speaking, no.Indeed, the most anyone can say about the effects of Walmart’s strategy on its supply chain is that improvements in eco-efficiency, ethical sourcing or what have you may have been made (all good things), but not necessarily in sustainability performance, per se. Costs, too, may have declined and that's always a good thing as well. But to equate decreases in, say, the carbon or water intensity of products with improvements in sustainability performance is to make a serious category error.
Walmart launched a sustainability blog this week, called The Green Room, with the stated purpose of developing a platform for an ongoing conversation with NGOs, suppliers and “others who want to share ideas and partner with us in helping people live better around the world.”
Apple recently filed two patent applications for fuel cell technology that could be used to extend the battery life of portable devices and reduce the demands of portable electronics on grid-supplied power.
Bill Weihl, who recently resigned as Google’s “Green Energy Czar,” will take on a similar position with Facebook at the end of January.