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Mike Hower

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Whirlpool Receives First ENERGY STAR® Certification for Clothes Dryers

Whirlpool is now the first appliance manufacturer to offer an ENERGY STAR® certified clothes dryer, after receiving certification from the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ENERGY STAR program.The Whirlpool Duet dryer uses new technologies ... View More

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Intel Launches 'Smart City’ Pilot Program in San Jose, CA

Intel and the City of San Jose have announced a partnership to help drive the city’s economic growth, create 25,000 cleantech jobs, improve environmental sustainability and enhance the quality of life for residents.The project, known as Smart Citie... View More

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Shell joins EDF’s Methane Detectors Challenge

Shell has joined the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) “Methane Detectors Challenge,” a collaborative project between EDF and five other oil and natural gas companies aimed at identifying and bringing to market cutting-edge technologies that c... View More

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New Home of SF 49ers to Use 85% Recycled Water

Recycled water will account for roughly 85 percent of all water used in Levi’s Stadium — the new home of the San Francisco 49ers — and will be used for irrigation of the field as well as a 27,000-square-foot green roof, flushing toilets and coo... View More

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UPS Names New Sustainability Officer, New Diversity and Inclusion Officer

UPS announced today that Rhonda Clark will become the company’s Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) effective immediately. Clark will succeed Scott Wicker, who helped create UPS’s sustainability architecture and implemented numerous successful ini... View More

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Tesla Opens Up Patents to Advance EV Movement

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk on Thursday announced that his company is removing patent barriers currently protecting its intellectual property in an effort to advance the development of electric vehicle (EV) technology.In a blog post on Tesla’s websi... View More

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Ceres: Water and Climate Risks Growing Threat to US Corn Production

Water and climate change risks are rising in the $67 billion U.S. corn sector, contributing to production and price volatility and growing concern by corn buyers that the nation’s largest crop needs to be grown more sustainably, according to a new ... View More

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MillerCoors Reduces Water Usage by 9.1%, Energy Usage 15.6%

MillerCoors now uses an average of 3.48 barrels of water to brew one barrel of beer, a 9.1 percent decrease from 2012, according to the brewer’s latest sustainability report. For comparison, some U.S. breweries use more than 6 barrels of water to p... View More

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Ford, Samsung Developing Fuel-Saving Vehicle Batteries

Ford and Samsung have announced a dual-battery system for gas-powered cars which could offer significant fuel savings in future vehicles.The process combines a lithium-ion battery with a 12-volt lead-acid battery for a new power source that the compa... View More

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Japanese Company Creates Floating Billboard to Clean Polluted River

Shokobutsu Hana, a natural cosmetics sub-brand from Japanese company Lion, has launched a campaign to build awareness of the “healthy beauty brought by the power of nature” by literally cleaning a polluted river with an 88-foot floating organic b... View More

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Feds Release Recommendations to Improve Chemical Facility Safety and Security

The Chemical Facility Safety and Security Working Group, a federal government working group set up after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, in 2013 has released recommendations that agencies should consider new rules for the storage a... View More

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80 Orgs Call on Apple to Eliminate Dangerous Chemicals From Chinese Supply Chain

80 environmental and human rights organizations, socially responsible investment firms, and occupational health professionals from 27 countries sent a letter today to Apple's VP of Environmental Affairs Lisa Jackson, the former head of the US Environ... View More

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Renewable Energy Can Create Economic Boom, But Better Policies Needed

Implementing the right policies and frameworks can achieve large-scale deployment of renewable energy that creates jobs, increases incomes, improves trade balances, and contributes to industrial development, according to a new report by the Clean Ene... View More

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GE Helps Portuguese Brewery Save 72 Million Liters of Water Annually

A brewery in Portugal has significantly reduced water usage by improving operating performance and reliability with help from GE’s advanced membranes and water chemical technology.The site, Sociedade Central de Cervejas e Bebidas (SCC), reused wast... View More

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Coca-Cola Replenishes 108.5 Billion Liters of Water Back to Communities

Coca-Cola and its bottling partners are on track to meet their 2020 water replenishment goal by balancing an estimated 68 percent of the water used in their finished beverages based on 2013 sales volume.To date, the soft drink company has replenished... View More

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Winston, Desso, Coke Explore Ways to Reimagine Business on #SB14sd Day Two

The second day of SB '14 San Diego kicked off with a morning full of inspirational plenary presentations examining how we can reimagine business to become a positive global force.Gil Friend, Chief Sustainability Officer at City of Palo Alto, gave the... View More

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Cisco, Kansas City Launch Plan to Enhance Connectivity and Innovation

Cisco and officials in Kansas City have signed a joint letter of intent (LOI) to engage in a program to create a “living lab” for entrepreneurial development, establish smart street lighting and video surveillance, provide digital interactive kio... View More

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UCS Names Hyundai-Kia, Honda, Toyota Least-Polluting Automakers

Hyundai-Kia, Honda and Toyota are the most eco-friendly automakers in the world, according to a new ranking released by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).The 2014 Automaker Rankings report analyzes new passenger cars and trucks from the 2013 mo... View More

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Biomass Boilers Could Reduce Scottish Bacardi Distiller’s CO2 Footprint by 90%

A Scottish Dewar's distillery owned by Bacardi Limited could reduce its carbon footprint by up to 90 percent by replacing heavy-fuel boilers with biomass boilers fuelled by sustainably sourced wood pellet fuel.The Aberfeldy Distillery raised £1.2 mi... View More

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Campbell's Upgrading Production Processes to Cut Water Use by 50%

Campbell Soup Company has announced that it is re-evaluating its production processes in order to reduce by 50 percent of its operational water use per ton of food produced by 2020.The company says it has achieved a 20.7 percent reduction in operatio... View More

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