3,000 Companies Expelled from UN Global Compact in 7 Years
Real estate company Georgetown Green, support services firm Kent Global Security and office furniture supplier Humanscale are the latest U.S. firms to be expelled from the U.N. Global Compact, as the...
View ArticleUN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability
Final report of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability. Speakers: - Connie Hedegaard, Member of the EC in charge of Climate Action - Brice Lalonde, Executive Coordinator...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Transatlantic Organic, Lighting Troffers,...
Food products classified as organic in the European Union or the United States can be sold as such in either region. The agreement, which seeks to boost trade in the organic food industry, valued at...
View ArticleU.S. Bank Taps Eco2Go for Recycling
U.S. Bank is expanding its recycling program, and in the process, has been the impetus for the launch of Eco2Go Recycling Solutions LLC, an Ohio business that aims to provide a cost-effective recycling...
View ArticleSustainability as Economic Game-Changer, Part III
Companies that rely on out of date, caustic economic modeling rather than engaging in embedded sustainability may find themselves limiting their future profits and positive market perception. This can...
View ArticleThyssenKrupp Launches Gearless Elevator Retrofit Package
ThyssenKrupp Elevator America has released a kit that allows traditional elevators to be refitted with energy-efficient, gearless technology, which also captures and reuses waste energy. Traditional...
View ArticleChanneling Surplus IT Promotes Sustainability
Connect to Compete, an initiative led by the FCC with help from private and non-profit organizations, gives large businesses and government agencies the opportunity to re-channel used, surplus computer...
View ArticleForest Footprint Disclosure Annual Review Shames BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Others
Forest Footprint Disclosure has criticized leading oil and gas companies including BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Valero Energy for their lack of disclosure...
View ArticleHonda Leads, Mitsubishi Trails in Toxic Interior Rankings
The Honda Civic tops the Ecology Center’s rankings of cars with the least toxic interiors, thanks to the company’s efforts to reduce PVC, while the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport comes last. Other top...
View ArticleEnvironmental Impacts Cost 41 Cents for Every $1 of Revenue, Report Finds
If companies had to pay for the full environmental costs of their activities, they would have lost 41 cents out of every dollar earned in 2010 – and these costs are doubling every 14 years, according...
View ArticleGM, Microsoft, Diageo Gave to Climate-Denier Think Tank
Microsoft, General Motors and Diageo are among the companies that have donated money to the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that denies the ongoing existence of global warming, according...
View ArticleTheo Chocolate and Sustainable Agriculture
Joseph Whinney, founder of Theo Chocolate, discusses product excellence, supporting sustainable agriculture and improving the lives of farmers and their families.
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, EU ETS, MATS,...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, an effort to reduce black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and...
View ArticleUS Foods to Develop Water-, Nitrogen-Efficient Sugarcane
U.S. Sugar Corporation and Arcadia Biosciences have signed an agreement to develop nitrogen use-efficient and water-efficient sugarcane, in a move the companies said could yield sugarcane requiring...
View ArticleLilly Sustainability Report: Scope 1,2 Emissions Fall, Scope 3 Rise
Pharmaceuticals firm Eli Lilly and Company achieved a three percent reduction in its Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 to 2010, but its Scope 3 emissions rose 11 percent over the...
View ArticleLargest Net-Zero Building in the World
When the Darla Moore School of Business is completed next year, the University of South Carolina will have 1.2 million square feet of green building space. The Moore School will be the largest net-zero...
View ArticleApple’s China Suppliers to Get Independent Environmental Audits
Apple has told the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) that it will soon allow independent environmental reviews of at least two suppliers’ factories in China. The environmental...
View ArticleMolycorp Plans Near-Zero-Wastewater Facility
California-based rare earth mining company Molycorp says its Project Phoenix facility in Mountain Pass, Calif., will have near-zero wastewater discharge. The $895 million project, which begins...
View ArticleUnilever’s VP of Sustainability Discusses Sustainability Trends
Speaking at a Green Monday event earlier this month that focused on sustainability trends, Karen Hamilton, vice president of sustainability at Unilever, said that organizations that understand how to...
View ArticleEcoInsight Updates Commercial Energy Audit Tool for iPad
EcoInsight has released beta version 2.0.0 for its free commercial energy audit tool for iPad. The mobile app collects building data including lighting systems and occupancy schedules. The data...
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