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PRESS RELEASE - Installation of 120 solar panels at Becker Underwood’s Littlehampton, United Kingdom facility
PRESS RELEASE - Firms seek to reduce carbon emissions in Iowa, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania
A new technology for OnStar systems may one day allow Chevrolet Volt owners to charge their electric cars with more renewable energy.OnStar and Google are working together to demonstrate the technology on the 17 Chevrolet Volts in Google’s electric vehicle based at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
Green logistics initiatives allowed carmaker Honda to reduce transportation requirements needed to support its North American production, the company said in its seventh annual North American Environmental report.
Owners of Kindle e-readers now have the option to power their devices in a sunny window.
SUPPLY CHAIN - Most of us who visit these pages are quite familiar with how Walmart used its influence to drive sustainability improvements in its supply chain. But were the gains really about sustainability at all? Strictly speaking, no.Indeed, the most anyone can say about the effects of Walmart’s strategy on its supply chain is that improvements in eco-efficiency, ethical sourcing or what have you may have been made (all good things), but not necessarily in sustainability performance, per se. Costs, too, may have declined and that's always a good thing as well. But to equate decreases in, say, the carbon or water intensity of products with improvements in sustainability performance is to make a serious category error.
Walmart launched a sustainability blog this week, called The Green Room, with the stated purpose of developing a platform for an ongoing conversation with NGOs, suppliers and “others who want to share ideas and partner with us in helping people live better around the world.”
Apple recently filed two patent applications for fuel cell technology that could be used to extend the battery life of portable devices and reduce the demands of portable electronics on grid-supplied power.
Bill Weihl, who recently resigned as Google’s “Green Energy Czar,” will take on a similar position with Facebook at the end of January.