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McDonald's Names Pork Supplier As Their First Ever Supplier Sustainability Award Winner

McDonald's USA recently recognized Smithfield Foods, Inc., a pork supplier for the McDonald's system, with the first-ever Sustainability Award during the McDonald's 2008 Supplier Summit

23 Oct 2008

Environmental Gains of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials May Be Offset by Nanotechnology Manufacturing Processes

Environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the process used to manufacture them

22 Oct 2008

Sustainable Leadership Award Winners Announced by Portland Cement Association

The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has identified local leaders in eight cities across the nation who have enacted policies or completed projects that promote sustainable development through the use of concrete and other cement-based products

21 Oct 2008

Earth Friendly Retaining Walls Advance Green Building and Support Sustainable Development

When retaining walls are required, it makes sense to use an earth-friendly alternative for which up to eight LEED credit points are available

21 Oct 2008

Recognition For University Efforts In Building a Greener Campus

Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia has been twice recognized for its efforts to create a greener, more sustainable campus

20 Oct 2008

Alternate Fuels May Threaten Water Supplies

As the search for new fuels intensifies, researchers in Texas report that switching to certain alternative fuels to power cars, trucks, and SUVs may require the use of much more water than conventional petroleum-based gasoline and diesel

20 Oct 2008

Consumer Electronics Sustainability Report Released

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today released the first industry-wide consumer electronics (CE) environmental sustainability report

20 Oct 2008

Concentration of Pesticides in Groundwater Decreasing

The use of pesticides in the United States has been widespread for decades, and a new study shows the effects they have had as a contaminant in the nation’s groundwater. The researchers took samples from over 300 wells and examined different contaminants that have been used over the years, with encouraging results as to the levels of concentration that the samples have measured

20 Oct 2008

Forest Residue Biomass Could Be Used to Create Clean, Cheap Electricity

Michigan's forest industry produces thousands of jobs and hundreds of thousands of tons of unused residues each year. Why not use that woody material to help generate clean electric power

20 Oct 2008

Aggressive Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal Set by Owens Corning

h2>Owens Corning, a world leader in glass fiber reinforcements and building materials systems, announced today that it will reduce its total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent per unit of production from 2...

15 Oct 2008