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Sprouts Invests in Energy, Refrigerant Management Software
Southwestern US grocery retailer Sprouts Farmers Market has installed enterprise asset management software from Verisae to support the company’s aggressive growth strategy. The grocery retailer, which...
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GE Debuts ‘Industrial Internet’ Technologies
GE has announced eight new industrial service technologies and a joint venture with Accenture that GE says will potentially cut $150 billion in waste across major sectors. The new technologies combine...
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Staples, HP, Kaiser Permanente to Use Chemical Tracking Tool
Staples, Hewlett-Packard and Kaiser Permanente are among the companies that will use a new tool that tracks the safety of chemicals in products and supply chains. The Guide to Safer Chemicals is a...
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Water Services to Hit $1 Trillion Sales by 2020, Report Says
The global water services industry is on pace to double its annual revenues to $1 trillion by 2020 largely driven by scarcity issues and growing demand for water treatment, according to a Bank of...
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CH2M Hill, Tetra Tech Driving Global Environmental Consultant Market
CH2M Hill, Tetra Tech, URS Corporation, Golder Associates, AECOM and 15 other companies are spearheading the global environmental consulting industry with combined EC revenues of $10.6 billion in 2011,...
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Target, Staples Use WRI Tool to Profit from Sustainability
Target and Staples are among the companies using a new World Resources Institute tool to evaluate their sustainability efforts. The Sustainability SWOT, or sSWOT, adds sustainability to the traditional...
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Cintas Sustainability Report: Energy Use From Laundry Halved
Uniform manufacturer and business-to-business service provider Cintas has halved the amount of energy used in its laundry process, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. Innovations...
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CA Technologies, IBM Energy Management Software Leaders, Study Says
CA Technologies, CarbonSystems, IBM, Schneider Electric and Verisae lead the global market for energy management software, according to a Verdantix study. Green Quadrant Energy Management Software...
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GE Puts the Brakes on 25,000-EV Plan
General Electric has downshifted its 2010 pledge – touted at the time as the largest such commitment in history – to buy 25,000 electric autos by 2015, Bloomberg reports. Deb Frodl, GE’s corporate...
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AkzoNobel, U-Ming Join Sustainable Shipping Initiative
Specialty chemicals producer AkzoNobel and Taiwan marine shipper U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation have joined the Sustainable Shipping Initiative, a global coalition of companies that pledge to...
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Impact Investing ‘to Hit $9 Billion in 2013′
Impact investing is expected to grow 12.5 percent to reach $9 billion in 2013, according to a survey released by JP Morgan and Global Impact Investing Network. The results, outlined in the Perspectives...
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Supreme Court Throws Out Stormwater Case
A lawsuit thrown out this week by the US Supreme Court, and a separate settlement between the EPA and several home builder industry groups, have demonstrated the challenge of regulating polluted...
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Virgin Media Equips 2,600 Vehicles With Fuel Saving Tool
Virgin Media will use SageQuest, a web-based tracking and management tool developed by Fleetmatics Group, to help save fuel and improve efficiency of its 2,600-vehicle fleet serving the UK and Ireland....
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How to Make Trustworthy Environmental Claims
The ISO has outlined how its standards help manufacturers and consumer representatives ensure that environmental claims can be trusted. The organization’s free brochure, Environmental labels and...
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Contract Wins: Cadmus, SAIC, CO2 Solutions
The Cadmus Group has won its third consecutive five-year contract to work with the EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW). Under this contract, the consultancy will work with OWOW to...
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IHS Software Supports Revised Hazard Communication Standard
Information and analytics company IHS has released updated versions of its enterprise software for advanced product compliance, chemical management and safety data sheet (SDS) management. IHS Comply...
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Ecodesk Aims to Improve Supply Chain Emissions Reporting
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, Del Monte Foods and MGM Resorts are among some 25 companies that have joined an Ecodesk campaign to improve supply chain efficiency and transparency, and make it...
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PwC Verifies Ecometrica GHG Software ‘Audit Ready’
Ecometrica say it has become the first environmental accounting provider to secure assurance of audit readiness, following a review by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The move comes as the UK’s largest...
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Ohio State, CSU Among Environmental Eight
Ohio State University, Colorado State University, the University of Virginia and five other US colleges have been named quarter finalists in the second annual Environmental March Madness, a competition...
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Employee Engagement in Sustainability Initiatives Helps Bottom Line
Bank of America’s My Environment employee initiative grew to 12,000 active employee participants in 26 countries within two years of its inception — just one example of how companies are engaging...
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