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A newly installed 637-kilowatt solar power system will supply the Port of West Sacramento with 100 percent of its electricity needs. It will cut the port’s energy costs by more than $20,000 annually and eliminate more than 34 million pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions over 25 years.
The system consists of 3,536 solar panels covering 90,000 square [...]
As a major paper user and vendor, HP has greater influence than most other computer companies to positively impact its customers’ corporate paper usage, according to a new sustainability update from Technology Business Research (TBR).
The sustainability update covers HP’s two sustainable paper policies: one for efficient internal paper usage and the other for efficient customer [...]
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has distributed a detailed implementation plan to stakeholders for its carbon policy, released in November last year, but environmental groups are criticizing the plan that could open the door for financing high-carbon intensity projects such as coal-fired power plants, reports Environmental Finance.
Under the carbon policy, which was [...]
NY water plan could cost power generators billions
Reuters
Smurfit-Stone wins Fla. recycling work
St. Louis Business Journal
APX Launches Portfolio Access Offering Single Account Sign-on for REC and Voluntary Carbon Registries
Business Wire
Data Center Under Helsinki to Warm Residents Above
Clean Technica
New wind farm leads Alliant Energy to ask for 14% rate hike
Des Moines Register
Made in the [...]
For global companies that face the challenge of embedding green design into the thinking of a vast network of operating personnel, project managers, design institutes and construction contractors, one particularly successful strategy involves creating a common set of “sustainable engineering guidelines” and making these accessible through a company-wide, online portal.
While a commitment to green design [...]
Trying to spread adoption of electric cars, five major Japanese firms have agreed to set a unified standard for electric vehicle recharging stations.
First, the companies will address a Japanese national standard, then they will push for an international standard, reports Reuters.
The group is comprised of Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Fuji Heavy Industries and Tokyo Electric Power [...]
Procter & Gamble is expanding its Future Friendly marketing effort that promotes environmental responsibility under the guise of consumer education.
P&G, which owns Tide, Pampers, PUR and Duracell, among other brands, first introduced Future Friendly at the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative in September of 2009.
Now, with a full marketing launch kicking off the week of March [...]
Anheuser-Busch InBev is putting in place a set of three-year goals for water conservation, recycling and energy use.
The effort, which is part of the brewing conglomerate’s Better World initiative, would have the company reduce its water use, as a proportion of production, by 30 percent (compared to 2007 levels), according to a press release.
AB InBev, [...]
Both the New York University (NYU) and the Johns Hopkins University have released climate action plans that set goals for reducing carbon emissions, improving energy efficiency and boosting their use of clean and renewable energy sources.
New York University has a comprehensive strategy to reduce its carbon footprint and improve its overall sustainability as part of [...]
Toru Kubo, the Asian Development Bank’s Senior Clean Energy and Climate Change Specialist, discusses the dual challenge of energy security and climate change facing developing Asia-Pacific nations and how demand-side energy efficiency initiatives can help.
