Sustainability as a Key to Corporate Success
A survey by Accenture and the UN Global Compact revealed that 93 percent of CEOs see sustainability as important to their company's future success. This represents a fundamental shift since 2007, when sustainability was just emerging on the periphery of business issues. Now, three years later, sustainability is on the top of the minds of CEOs around the world. They view the new sustainability era...
Read More »Tastier Cakes From a Green Bakery
Tasty Baking Company, makers of the Tastykake® snack line, announced that the transition of all their production lines to its new, state-of-the-art, LEED registered bakery at the Philadelphia Navy Yard is complete. According to their news release, the 345,000 square foot manufacturing and distribution facility is the largest LEED-registered bakery in the world. The new bakery features automated...
Read More »Sustainable Packaging Coalition Releases Compostable Packaging Survey
Compostable packaging seems to be a logical step for manufacturers in this environmentally conscious age. But, if compost facilities won't take in compostable packaging, all that effort is wasted. To find out what is really going on in the composting industry, the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) has released a report summarizing survey results of the SPC's Industrial Composter Survey...
Read More »Light Friday: What Your E-mail Signoff Says about You
Plus: How Trademark Law Works, Interactive LED Sculpture and Kids Re-enacting the American Revolution. Porky Parody The National Pork Board is upset that ThinkGeek is marketing its Canned Unicorn Meat using a slogan that slightly resembles theirs. The 12-page cease-and-desist letter, written as if unicorn meat really exists, claims the online retailer of all thinks geeky (and an annual producer...
Read More »Companies Rethink B2B Strategies
Rapidly changing vendor relationships and an uncertain economic climate are leading many companies to re-evaluate their business-to-business integration strategies, a new report shows. How are they planning to manage the risks, and will their new approaches prove effective? Although most professionals engaged in business-to-business (B2B) functions believe the recession has come to an end, many...
Read More »Sustainability Spotlight: Energy Star Helps Auto Plants Improve Energy Efficiency
The U.S. EPA's Energy Star program for industry has helped improve the energy efficiency of the auto manufacturing industry, which has cut fossil fuel use by 12 percent and has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by more than 700,000 tons of carbon dioxide, according to a recent report by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. The U.S. EPA launched the ENERGY...
Read More »Should Manufacturers Be Held Responsible for Product Waste and Recycling?
The U. S. Conference of Mayors thinks so. At their 78th Annual meeting that took place in Oklahoma City on June 11-15th, the mayors endorsed Closing the Recycling Loop - Affirmative Sustainable Procurement Program and supported the Extended Producer Responsibility for Products resolutions. The mayors are looking to Congress to support state governments in making producers and consumers of...
Read More »Is Technology Helping Us Through the Downturn?
The recent economic downturn has American workers overworked and anxious, and many are turning to collaboration technology for solutions. Is technology helping employers and employees cope with their workload, or causing more stress? As the economy struggles to recover, approximately 48 percent of employees who use technology in their jobs said they are required to do more work now than in...
Read More »Germans At The Forefront of Green Beer Technology
If you're a beer drinker and you've spent any time browsing the aisles at your chosen beer store, you'll note that beer has gone environmental lately. First, we had organic beer. Next, we started seeing beer flavored with very renewable substances like hemp. Next, we were faced with lines of beer produced in kegs only - no glass bottles to litter up the world and waste fuel in transportation....
Read More »Clean Fireplace Technology Wins EPA Clean Air Excellence Award
Clear Skies Unlimited Inc. is a small environmental technology business that develops state-of-the-art pollution abatement technologies. One of their innovative products, the HearthCAT Wood Burning Fireplace, utilizes a technology that reduces particulate emissions in wood burning fireplaces by as much as 90 percent. The EPA's Clean Air Excellence Award was given to Clear Skies Unlimited...
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