The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that the Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium will host its first Annual Meeting on September 29, 2010 in Huntington Beach, California. The meeting will immediately follow the IES Street and Area Lighting Conference to enable attendees to extend their stay and learn more about Consortium committee efforts [...]
March 16-18, 2011, Hyatt Regency Chicago ,Abstract Due Date: January 15th Sustainability plays a pivotal role in the packaging supply chain, yet critical questions remain top-of-mind for management teams attempting to implement sustainable packaging initiatives across their organizations. How can sustainable packaging programs be implemented cost-effectively using best practices? How can sustainability be quantified and [...]
MADISON, Wis. – Successful efforts to fuel business growth contributed to financial gains reported by state manufacturers assisted by the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP). WMEP services generated an economic impact of $164 million with 973 jobs created and retained during the past fiscal year. Increased and retained sales account for nearly two thirds of [...]
All-New 2011 Ford Explorer Sustainability benchmark The all-new Ford Explorer is more than just the new fuel economy class leader in the midsize SUV segment. The reinvented Explorer, which arrives later this year, also sets a new benchmark for sustainability in the SUV segment due to an increased use of renewable and recycled content, such [...]
One year after officially opening its first green roof in midtown Manhattan, the Postal Service announced it continues to exceed its energy savings targets, placing the agency more than two thirds of the way to achieving its goal to reduce energy use by 30 percent by 2015. The green roof, atop the Morgan mail processing [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing final rules that will protect Americans’ health by cutting emissions of mercury, particle pollution and other harmful pollutants from Portland cement manufacturing, the third-largest source of mercury air emissions in the United States. The rules are expected to yield $7 to $19 in public health benefits for [...]
The Princeton Review named three University of California campuses to its 2011 Green Rating Honor Roll for tallying the highest score in the publication’s measure of a college’s environmental friendliness. UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz scored a 99, the highest score possible, along with 15 other universities in Princeton Review’s survey [...]
GE this month introduced a technology platform called TrueSense™ that gives users previously unavailable tools to optimize productivity and increase water savings in the monitoring and control of cooling water systems, which are used in heavy manufacturing industries and large commercial and institutional facilities to cool production equipment and for air conditioning. TrueSense automation and knowledge [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) recently kicked off a series of training sessions for seven manufacturers in the Southeast that are working to demonstrate energy management systems that meet the highest standards in energy efficiency. Representatives from the seven demonstration facilities—Nissan North America, Volvo Trucks, Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., Bridgestone [...]
CSA Standards, a leading developer of standards, codes and personnel certification programs, and the International Performance Assessment Centre for the geologic storage of Carbon Dioxide (IPAC-CO2 Research Inc.) recently announced a joint agreement to develop Canada’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) standard for the geological storage of industrial emissions. Upon completion, the new CCS [...]
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