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Adriana Trujillo

Xeros System Cuts Water Use 'Up to 80%' · Environmental Management & Energy N... - 0 views

  • The Capital Athletic Club’s installation of the Xeros Laundry System, which uses polymer beads rather than water, has enabled it
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    A California athletic club has reduced water usage for laundry washed with a machine using Xeros laundry system by nearly 50 percent.
Adriana Trujillo

Dow Expects $1bn Cost Savings by Valuing Nature in Business Decisions · Envir... - 0 views

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    The Dow Chemical Company today announced new sustainability goals, to be accomplished by 2025, which include creating products that offset three times more carbon dioxide than they emit throughout their life cycle and delivering $1 billion in cost savings or new cash flow by valuing nature in business decisions.
Adriana Trujillo

Paragon Customers Reduce CO2 by 900,000 Pounds · Environmental Leader · Envir... - 0 views

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    George's Chicken reduced its fleet size by 10 percent, cut road miles by 5 percent, and reported saving $31,000 a year on fuel costs. George's has 250 stores in the Northeast US.
Adriana Trujillo

Unilever Saves $276M, 1 Million Metric Tons CO2 · Environmental Leader · Envi... - 1 views

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    Unilever says it has saved 1 million metric tons of CO2 since 2008 in its manufacturing network.
Adriana Trujillo

Derive's Technology Saves Fleets 30% in Fuel Costs · Environmental Leader · E... - 1 views

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    Derive Systems, an automotive fleet engine software developer, announced today its partnership with Clean Fuels Ohio as part of the Midwest DRIVES Initiative.
Adriana Trujillo

Las Vegas School District Saves $12,500 per Day from Lighting Retrofit | Energy Manager... - 0 views

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    Nevada utility NV Energy helped a Las Vegas school district save $2.25 million and avoid 21.4 million KW-h of electricity consumption per year by installing energy-efficient lighting at 152 schools. The project also enabled the school district to earn $790,000 in utility rebates during the 2012 fiscal year
Adriana Trujillo

REI Saves 93% on Data Center Energy with Evaporative Cooling · Environmental ... - 0 views

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    Outdoor retailer REI retrofitted its Seattle data center, resulting in a 93 percent reduction in the cooling energy used
Adriana Trujillo

UPS Big Data to Cut Carbon Emissions, Save 1.5M Gallons of Fuel · Environment... - 0 views

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    UPS has launched its route optimization software called ORION - this stands for on-road integrated optimization and navigation - which the company expects to save more than 1.5 million gallons of fuel and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 14,000 metric tons by the end of the year. A reduction of just one mile each day per driver over the course of a year saves UPS up to $50 million annually.
Del Birmingham

Justmeans | The largest distribution network for CSR and sustainability news, data, and... - 0 views

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    A Nissan vehicle plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, improved the plant's energy performance by 7.2 percent in gaining the SEP certification. The new system saves the facility $938,000 annually; Nissan's investment, $331,000, was recovered in just four months. - See more at: http://www.justmeans.com/#sthash.61g5GUht.dpuf
Adriana Trujillo

OR Initiative Saves Hospital System $692K · Environmental Leader · Environmen... - 1 views

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    Spectrum Health, a Michigan-based nonprofit healthcare system, saved $692,000 through Green the OR, a Practice Greenhealth initiative that focuses on reducing cost, waste and exposure to hazardous chemicals in the operating room.
Adriana Trujillo

Hormel Foods' Plant Cuts GHG Emissions 60% · Environmental Leader · Environme... - 0 views

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    Based on entries from 2014 alone, Hormel Foods documented the following annual savings from the 52 Environmental Sustainability Best of the Best projects: 82 million gallons in water use; 8,100 MMBtu of natural gas; 2,700,000 kWh of electricity; 1,500 tons of solid waste; and 2,570 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
Adriana Trujillo

IBM Recycles 97% of End-of-Life Products · Environmental Leader · Environment... - 0 views

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    IBM recycled, reused or resold almost 97 percent of the end-of-life products it collected for processing last year, according to the tech giant's 25th annual corporate sustainability report.
Adriana Trujillo

Hospitals Increase Water Efficiency During California Drought · Environmental... - 0 views

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    In other efforts to improve hospitals' efficiency, Michigan-based Spectrum Health saved $692,000 through Green the OR, a Practice Greenhealth initiative that focuses on reducing cost, waste and exposure to hazardous chemicals in the operating room.
Adriana Trujillo

CSR Programs Increase Revenue up to 20%, Says Verizon, Campbell Soup Study · ... - 0 views

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    Well-designed corporate social responsibility programs increase revenue by as much as 20 percent, command price premiums up to 20 percent and increase customer commitment by as much as 60 percent, according to a study commissioned by Verizon and Campbell Soup.
Adriana Trujillo

Ship Wind-Power Technology Delivers 5% Fuel Efficiency Savings · Environmenta... - 1 views

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    Norsepower Oy and Bore say the sea trial of Norsepower's Rotor Sail - a new wind propulsion technology for ships - verified by NAPA and supported by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, confirm fuel savings of 2.6 percent using a single small Rotor Sail on a route in the North Sea. With these fuel savings, the technology has a payback period of 4 years, the companies say.
Adriana Trujillo

GE's Advanced Cooling Technology Saves $52M for Natural Gas Platform · Enviro... - 1 views

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    Carigali-PTTEPI Operating Company Sdn. Bhd. is saving $52 million annually at its natural gas development platform in the Gulf of Thailand, while reducing water consumption and chemical use through General Electric's advanced cooling and chemical treatment technology.
Adriana Trujillo

Green Tech Generates Revenue, Transforms Wastewater into Raw Materials · Envi... - 0 views

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    A sewage recycling system pioneered by Applied CleanTech (ACT) is reducing a Dutch water board's operational costs by around $1 million a year while reducing sludge by up to 30%. ACT's technology is designed to help industrial and agricultural wastewater treatment plants transform wastewater into raw materials for plastics, insulation, pulp and paper, construction, bio-fuels production, nano-cellulose, and other industries.
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Zero-Waste Program Cuts CO2 Emissions by 18,000 Tons · Environmental Manageme... - 0 views

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    Big Heart Pet Brands' Milk-Bone bakery in Buffalo, New York, has sent zero waste to landfill for five years, reducing its CO2 emissions by more than 18,000 tons. Since 2008, Milk-Bone has recycled more than 21 million pounds of materials via its zero landfill initiative. This has saved more than 18 million kWh of electricity, 17 million gallons of water, 9,000 barrels of oil, 45,000 mature
Adriana Trujillo

Boston Hospitals Cut Energy Use 6%, Despite Facility Growth | Energy Manager Today - 0 views

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    The Boston Green Ribbon Commission reports that Boston-based hospitals reduced total energy use by 6% in 2013 compared to 2011 levels. The reduction in energy use resulted in around $11.9 million in cost savings since 2011.
Adriana Trujillo

SDG&E Landscaping to Slash Water Use 40% · Environmental Leader · Environment... - 0 views

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    San Diego Gas & Electric expects its new water-wise landscaping project at Century Park, its Kearny Mesa headquarters, to save the utility more than 4 million gallons of water a year, a 40 percent campus reduction.
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