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Dean Foods' Environmental 2013 Roadmap is designed to achieve a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and 30 percent decline in water use by 2013, both metrics measured per gallon of product produced. The company also intends to slash its solid waste generation by 30 percent.
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Laws introduced in California over the last 20 years for cleaner fuels and diesel truck engines has had an immediate impact on addressing black carbon, leading to an improvement of the state's air quality and climate benefits.
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Searching for opportunities to save energy may be a major challenge at your plants, especially if you find that the facilities run short on data and long on attitude. Identifying potential efficiencies can also be tough in some of the friendliest factories. Think not? Consider Santa's Workshop.
by Terry Foecke
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A battle with Congressional Republicans looms as the agency edges forward with an emissions crackdown scheduled to start next year.
by James Murray
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Amid increasing demands for verified information about products' impact on the planet, UL Environment will launch an environmental product declaration program in January. Building materials, lighting and textile makers are among the businesses that have already expressed interest in such a service.
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In its latest CSR report, Xerox detailed its progress over the last eight years, as well as improvements since the previous year, on its emissions reductions, water consumption, energy use, and recycling rates.
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How did that get there? It's a question that I've found myself asking at lot these days. Goods movement, freight, logistics -- call it what you will. Regardless of name, it's the source of a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Fireman's Fund Insurance Company will soon join eBay, Coca-Cola, Walmart and Google as early adopters of Bloom Energy technology with the installation of six of the company's high-tech fuel cells, the insurance firm announced today.
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The state's groundbreaking carbon market, which cleared its final hurdle yesterday, puts California on the front lines of the climate fight, although there are still areas that can make the law even more powerful.
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The art and science of carbon footprinting is about to take a step forward with the upcoming release of guidance to help companies measure and manage Scope 3 emissions in supply chains, including products, travel, waste and distribution.
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The agreements that negotiators reached this weekend in Mexico are flawed and incomplete, but they still represent a historic breakthrough on fighting climate change.
by James Murray
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The climate talks in Cancun have taken on a different tone in its final days, with people continuing to wonder if the international community will be able to make enough progress to show that it can take on the challenge of climate change.
by Michael Oko
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Since adding recycling bins at its stores for the first time earlier this year, Target has finalized a set of company-wide goals covering emissions, water and more.
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The Post-Carbon Reader, a thoughtful new book published by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, aims to point the way to to a more resilient and sustainable world.
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SAP recognizes sustainability to be part of its purpose and a way to deliver value to its customers. At the same time, SAP sees a clear link to its own business performance as it works to reduce its environmental impacts and engage its global workforce, all of which is informing the kinds of products it makes.
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The industry association that represents roughly 34,000 pubs and brewers in the U.K. has laid out 10 sustainability commitments that cover emissions, water use, renewable energy and others, including some goals that double the U.K. government's own targets.
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The Mexican government, which is hosting the UN climate change negotiations in Cancun, has gone to great lengths to lay to rest the ghosts of the Copenhagen negotiation process, which was haunted by the Danish text and secret negotiations between the U.S. and developing countries that led to the Copenhagen Accord.
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While global businesses have made gains to improve their energy efficiency and reduce carbon footprints, more needs to be done upstream and on a sector-basis, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres told business leaders over the weekend.
by Alex Hahn
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Cities are the place where so much of the climate change solution lies, which is why mayors are making their voices heard at the Cancun climate summit. They are committed to finding sustainable solutions and keen to criticize national governments for not helping them to succeed by continuing, for example, to subsidize fossil fuels.
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Billed as the "Oscars" of climate change events, the Gigaton Awards brought together a global cross-section of companies leading the way in reducing their carbon footprints.
by Alex Hahn
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Although an ambitious global agreement is the optimal outcome, pursuing a sectoral approach could succeed in reducing greenhouse gas emis
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As more and more companies adopt comprehensive software suites to manage their energy and greenhouse gas emissions, there are three market segments with widely different needs, instead of just one -- and plenty of solution providers to meet those needs.
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SAP and Autodesk make the case for how their collaboration to combine Autodesk's greenhouse gas reduction methodology with SAP's carbon management software can help companies proactively manage carbon footprints at a time of ineffectual climate policy.
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In the same way that LEED has transformed architectural design to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean construction is emerging as the next big thing to revolutionize the building industry.
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Next week's Climate Change Conference in Cancún suffers from the profound disappointment of Copenhagen still firmly fixed in the world's memory, but there are still some important areas where progress can be made in Mexico.