By Julie_Urlaub on June 10, 2010 @GreenAdvantage , Andrew Winston , Base of the Pyramid , Berkeley , biodiversity , BOP , bottom of the pyramid , Carbon Disclosure , carbon exposure , chemicals , Climate Change , climate policy , Dara O'Rourke , disclosure on carbon. P&G and IBM are both requiring data and transparency of environmental management systems , Eco-Advantage Strategies , energy , Ford , global warming , Good Guide , green business strategy , Green Cost Cutting , Green Recovery , Green to Gold , Harvard Business , IBM , Ikea , innovation , Julie Urlaub , Kaiser Permanente , P&G , Pepsi , sb '10 , social performance , sourcing , suppliers , supply chain , supply chain group , sustainability , Sustainable Brands , Sustainable Brands 10' , Taiga Company , TheHuffington Post , toxins , transparency , University of California , value-chain , Walmart , Water , Winston Eco-Strategies
Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, kicked of day two of the Sustainable Brands 2010 conference with an informative talk on how the difficult environmental, economic and supply challenges that business and industry face, have changed that game and how those challenges are presenting opportunities.
By Yale Environment 360 on May 18, 2010 and Mother Jones , Andrew Hopkins , Associated Press , Australian National University , Berkeley , blowout preventer , BP , CA , Deepwater Horizon , department of interior , drill rigs , drilling platform , energy companies , environmental impact statement , environmental law , Failure to Learn , fossil fuels , Gulf of Mexico , Halliburton , Holly Doremus , hydrocarbon resources , John McQuaid , ken salazar , lmoratorium , Louisiana , marshes , Minerals Management Service , MMS , New Orleans Times-Picayune , Obama , ocean surface , offshore drilling , offshore oil and gas drilling , oil field services , oil slick , Outer Continental Shelf , Outer Continental Shelf Oversight Board , Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms , Pulitzer Prize , Robert Bea , Santa Barbara , sea floor , slate , Smithsonian , Transocean , U.S. News , University of California , Washington Post , Wired
The oil slick spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has shattered the notion that offshore drilling had become safe. A close look at the accident shows that lax federal oversight, complacency by BP and the other companies involved, and the complexities of drilling a mile deep all combined to create the perfect environmental storm.
By Aysu Katun on January 21, 2010 Austin , Berkeley , Boulder , Canberra , desalination , diversion , diversion rate , federal plan , General Motors , GrassRoots Recycling Network , Hewlett-Packard , incentive , Kamikatsu , landfill , landfill-free , Lord Norman Foster , Los Angeles , Masdar City , monorail , NIKE , policy reform , recycle , recycling rate , repair , reuse , San Francisco , Seattle , solar power , waste processing , waste reduction , zero carbon , zero waste communities , zero waste goal , Zero Waste International Alliance , zero-waste
Imagine a world where the concept of “waste” does not exist. A world in which nothing gets discarded, every industrial product gets reassembled into something useful, each unit of energy is offset and anything and everything is a renewable resource. This is the design principle and environmental philosophy of “zero waste”.
By Chris de Morsella on December 3, 2009 Advanced Batteries , Albuquerque , Argonne , Argonne National Laboratory , Berkeley , CA , California , carbon emissions , carbon fiber , Carbon Fiber Manufacturing , Carbon fiber reinforced cable , carbon fiber-reinforced polymer , clean energy , Clean tech , CO , Colorado , composite material , Department of Energy , Development , distributed energy storage , DOE , DOE National Laboratories , energy efficiency , flywheel , Golden , government funding , green economy , green jobs , greenhouse gas , ID , Idaho , Idaho Falls , Idaho National Laboratory , IL , Illinois , kinetic energy storage device , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , manufacturing , Morgantown , N-ZEB , National Energy Technology Laboratory , National Laboratories , National Renewable Energy Laboratory , Net-Zero Energy Building , New Mexico , NM , Oak Ridge , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Poneman , research , Sandia National Laboratory , Tennessee , Testing , TN , West Virginia , wind turbine blade , WV
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $104.7 million in funding for seven new research and testing facilities located in DOE national laboratories. The announced projects will support the development and improvement of clean energy and efficiency technologies that are in the US strategic national interest. The new funding is supporting research in techniques to reduce the cost to manufacture carbon fiber on a large scale; finding ways to improve efficiency and lower costs for car batteries; and for developing net-zero energy building technologies.
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Last week, Sierra Magazine named the nation’s top 20 “coolest” schools for their efforts to stop global warming and operate sustainably. The magazine’s September/October cover story spotlights the schools that they believe are making a true impact for the planet, and marks Sierra’s third annual listing of America’s greenest universities and colleges. The […]
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The Princeton Review, today released its second annual Green Ratings of colleges. In this measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99, the company tallied its Green Ratings for 697 institutions based on data it collected from the colleges in 2008-09 concerning their environmentally related policies, practices, and academic offerings. The Princeton Review also named 15 colleges to its “2010 Green Rating Honor Roll” – a list that salutes the institutions that received the highest possible score – 99 – in this year’s rating tallies.
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The White House announced that the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science will invest $777 million in Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) over the next five years. In a national effort to accelerate scientific advances in critical areas of the new energy economy the United States Department of Energy (DOE) will establish 46 new multi-million dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (or EFRCs) across the nation.