Energy

The biorefinery will be built on 24 acres at Dow’s site in Freeport, Texas, where it will use carbon dioxide produced at a nearby Dow manufacturing facility. Algenol applied for $25 million in stimulus funds to cover half the project's costs. Read More

The intersection of climate change and human rights is an emerging issue for global companies as climate change mitigation, adaptation and its direct effects impact human rights in the communities where they operate. Read More

There's a fundamental problem facing Wal-Mart and the rest of corporate America: How does a company get bigger without increasing its environmental footprint? Read More

Water conservation, energy efficiency, retrofits and other eco-friendly initiatives yielded Baxter International Inc. a total of $11.9 million in environmental income, savings and cost avoidance for 2008, the diversified healthcare products firm said in its latest sustainability report. Read More

From vastly expanding the amount of green-certified coffee it purchases to tripling the number of coffee pods it recycles, Nestlé subsidiary Nespresso is taking its green game to the next level with today's Ecolaboration announcement. Read More

A team of students from Ohio State University took first place in the first milestone of the three-year EcoCAR challenge. The 17 teams in the challenge must take a 2009 Saturn VUE and alter it into an electrified vehicle, improve its fuel economy, lower its emissions and maintain its performance and appeal to consumers. Read More

New kinetic road plates have been installed at the supermarket giant's new store in Gloucester, U.K. It will harness enough energy from vehicles driving in and out of the store's parking lot to power all check outs. Read More

Workers now average 435 square feet of space at the office and that area is greener than it used to be, but probably not much cleaner, according to a new study by the International Facility Management Association. Read More

It is imperative for society to move to solid-state lighting to save money in the built environment and lessen the impacts to the broader environment -- but in the U.S. it may take a policy change to force the nation to use more sustainable lighting, say Carnegie Mellon researchers. Read More

In April, the Clinton Climate Initiative, the Rocky Mountain Institute, Empire State Building owner Tony Malkin, the city of New York and project partners Jones Lang LaSalle and Johnson Controls Inc. unveiled their bold plan to green the iconic skyscraper -- a project that has proved a high level of energy savings can be captured cost effectively. Read More