Decarbonization
National Grid Begins Sending Energy Report Cards to Customers
Utility company National Grid began sending energy report cards to 50,000 of its Boston area customers this week, hoping their ability to compare consumption with their peers will drive down energy use. Read More
Lipton: Now That's Green Tea!
Smart companies that pursue zero waste are also taking us closer to an industrial system inspired by nature, where there's no such thing as garbage. Lipton's employees and management have developed just such a system in Suffolk, Va. Read More
New RMI Green Footstep Carbon Calculator Aims to Lighten Buildings' Tread on the Environment
The Rocky Mountain Institute has created a new tool to help people understand how their buildings use carbon and what they can do to reduce emissions from building projects. Read More
Sky Vegetables: Taking Green Roofs to New Heights
The vision: green rooftops, not just as gardens, but as urban agriculture hubs for herbs and edible greens, grown in renewable energy-powered greenhouses, allowing city dwellers to grow and sell food locally. Read More
UPS to Offer Per-Package Carbon Offsets
The company also launched a new contract service to calculate the carbon footprint of individual customers' shipping activities. Read More
Ray Anderson: Radical Industrialist
The founder of Interface shows how being a tree-hugging environmentalist and the head of a thriving, $1-billion a year carpet company don't need to be mutually exclusive Read More
IBM's Data Center Remodel Saves 98 Percent of Costs, Boosts Capacity 8x
In an hour-long webcast, IBM vice president Steven Sams showed how putting the company's own technology to work on overhauling its Lexington, Ky., data center highlights the potential of energy efficient IT projects. Read More
CPC Launches $1B Green Financing Initiative for Retrofits
The Community Preservation Corporation is a key player in a new public-private partnership that will provide $1 billion in construction and mortgage loans for energy efficient upgrades and property retrofits of as many as 15,000 affordable multifamily rental and coop buildings in New York. Read More
Are 12 Steps Enough to Get to Sustainability?
A management consulting firm released a new report outlining the steps any company can take to get on the path toward environmental sustainability. How many of these has your firm already accomplished? Read More
Steelcase and Whirlpool Emerge as Sector Climate Leaders
When it comes to addressing climate change, including measuring and reducing its carbon footprint, Whirlpool leads the pack in the large appliance sector, according to a new analysis. Similarly, Steelcase leaves other furniture makers in the dust for sharing its efforts to measure climate change impacts with the public and setting clear goals to reduce its energy use and emissions. Read More