Europe's Best and Worst Carbon Polluters Named and Shamed
Insurers Aviva and Aegon landed at the top of the heap of Europe's 300 largest companies for their low levels of publicly-reported greenhouse gas emissions, relative to their revenue. Rounding out the bottom were KGHM, a Polish mining company, and Sodexo, a food services and management company. Read More
Quote for Sept. 24, 2010: Charlie Chaplin, 1916
"The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -- Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916. Read More
Quote for Sept. 23, 2010: Robert Millikan, Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1923
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and Nobel laureate, 1923. Read More
Quote for Sept. 22, 2010: Lord Kelvin, 1895
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord William Thomson Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895. Read More
Quote for Sept. 20, 2010: T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961
"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." -- T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961 Read More
Quote for Sept. 16, 2010: Sir William Preece, 1878
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” -- Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878. Read More
Tampa Electric and Siemens Join Forces to Capture Carbon
Siemens will help the Florida power generator capture the carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant on Tampa Bay. Read More
Carbonetworks Looks Beyond Carbon with New Name, CEO
In a nod to its years-long shift toward a broader focus on energy and sustainability management, software firm Carbonetworks rebranded itself as ENXSuite and named a Silicon Valley veteran to be its new CEO to navigate the company through a nascent but increasingly competitive market. Read More
What's Driving the Business Case for Carbon Management?
Innovation, costs, and regulation now drive leading firms to increasingly embrace carbon management and sustainability, but within the next few years, companies will move in greater numbers from a tactical to strategic approach as factors such as emissions and resource scarcity take on greater importance in C-suite decisionmaking. Read More
Enviance and FirstCarbon Expand Their Carbon Software Lineups
Enviance and FirstCarbon Solutions unveiled newly enhanced carbon accounting software products this week aimed at helping a growing number of companies in a variety of sectors measure and manage their carbon footprints. Read More