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Translating talk into action – University of Surrey Conference Shows How Universities Can Be Run Sustainably

Employ a sustainability expert at management level and he or she will earn back their salary in savings several times over. Turn waste into a resource not a drain on resources by diverting it from landfill through recycling, composting or energy recovery. These were some of the powerful yet practical messages delivered at a recent conference

19 Sep 2008

Environmentally Friendly InterContinental Hotel Uses 100 Percent Renewable Energy

Chicagoland’s new eco-savvy and luxury destination hotel, the 556-room InterContinental Chicago O’Hare, is going above and beyond in its quest to lighten businesses’ impact on the environment

17 Sep 2008

Greenhouse Gas Inventory Announced by Cornell

As part of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), Cornell University has calculated its first greenhouse gas inventory. This news from the inventory indicates that Cornell will be on course to reduce central utilities emissions by almost one-third – far exceeding the university’s goal of being 7 percent below 1990 levels of carbon emissions by 2012. The university is expected to meet that goal by 2010, two years ahead of schedule

16 Sep 2008

UK Landcape Company, Marshalls, Now World Leader in Carbon Labelled Products

UK-based landscape company, Marshalls plc has today announced that from next month it will have the largest number of officially carbon labelled products, anywhere in the world

15 Sep 2008

Sustainability Benchmark in Building Materials Again Set By Holcim

For the fourth year in succession, Holcim has been named "Leader of the Industry" in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and once again acknowledged as the company with the best sustainability performance in the building materials industry

10 Sep 2008

Sustainable Wood Composites Being Made Using Nanotechnology

The European Commission has decided to invest 6.5 million Euro into a large scale project dealing with the development of sustainable wood-based composite materials

10 Sep 2008

Fishing For Energy Project Takes Abandoned Fishing Equipment and Turns It Into Electricity

“Fishing for Energy,” an innovative partnership to recycle fishing equipment into energy, has expanded to Newport, Rhode Island

8 Sep 2008

Ammonia Recovery Facility to be Built in New York City

ThermoEnergy Corporation today announced the signing of a formal agreement with Earth Tech, Inc., part of AECOM one of the worlds largest environmental and infrastructure engineering companies, to act as Construction Manager as well as perform the civil engineering work for the Company's multi-million dollar Ammonia Recovery Process

8 Sep 2008

Bosch Growing Green Technologies With New Research Facilities

The Bosch Group, a leading German global supplier of technology and services, establishes their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters for Research and Advance Engineering in Singapore

8 Sep 2008

Environmentally Conscientious iPod Sound System Made From Bamboo

The one year-old audio brand Vers is taking a very different path than the rest of the plastic iPod sound system world with its sustainably-designed wood sound system line made using bamboo

8 Sep 2008