The Power of One: Union Pacific
Mike Iden has spent a lot of time at Union Pacific working on making locomotives more efficient as well as reducing their emissions, including developing new low-emission engines and redesigning containers to reduce drag. Read More
Study Details BPA Exposure From Receipts
New tests show that simple handling of receipts can transfer as much bisphenol A (BPA) though skin as humans get exposed to from canned food. The tests also found BPA on paper money, hinting that BPA is easily coming off of receipts and onto other items. Read More
7 Technologies Where China Has the U.S. Beat
Energy Secretary Steven Chu explained in clear and forceful terms how China's leadership in energy technologies keeps growing, and is a second "Sputnik Moment" for the United States. Read More
The Power of One: eBay
The company made it relatively easy for Karenina Susilo to get outside the box of her regular job to develop the company's innovative reusable shipping box. Read More
Green Grid Unveils New Metrics for Data Center Carbon, Water Use
The tech industry association is expanding on its ubiquitous PUE formula to help data center owners and operators get a fuller picture of their environmental impacts by measuring the carbon outputs and water use of data centers. Read More
How Starbucks Saves Millions a Year in Energy with LED Lighting
When Starbucks converted the lighting in more than 7,000 of its stores from to LEDs developed for the company by GE, the company ended up saving roughly $4 million per year in energy costs, and proving that LEDs are ready for prime-time. Read More
Nike Shares Environmental Scoring Tool For Product Design
Nike has released a public version of a design tool it created to help its designers make better-informed decisions in the earliest stage Read More
Is a Sector Approach the Best Alternative to a Global Climate Deal?
Although an ambitious global agreement is the optimal outcome, pursuing a sectoral approach could succeed in reducing greenhouse gas emis Read More
Starbucks Recycles Old Cups Into New Ones
Starbucks has completed a test showing its ubiquitous coffee cups can be recycled into new cups, and although only one facility can currently make that happen, Starbucks hopes this and other tests push more recyclers to accept trashed cups. Read More
How Albertsons Achieved Zero Waste at Two Grocery Stores
Now diverting more than two millions pounds of garbage from local landfills, the two Santa Barbara stores have also achieved a goal of making their waste stream "revenue neutral," meaning the combined savings and new revenue streams created by going zero waste are offsetting the cost of handling it. Read More