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Adriana Trujillo

Compass Group Joins Sustainable Produce Initiative · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Foodservice management company Compass Group North America is the newest hospitality partner in sustainable and local produce initiative Greener Fields Together.
Adriana Trujillo

Centralized Wastewater Management Grows With Shale Oil Boom · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Stricter regulations, the explosive growth of new hydraulic fracturing shale oil and gas wells and limited available water resources are driving the popularity of centralized wastewater management in North America, according to Pollution Engineering magazine
Adriana Trujillo

Groups protest chemicals used in Apple's iPhone - Yahoo Finance - 0 views

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    Apple's labor practices are under attack by China Labor Watch and Green America, who contend the company makes its iPhones with a hazardous mix of chemicals that threaten the health of factory workers assembling the devices in China
Adriana Trujillo

Sustainability Leads to Cost Savings, Revenue Growth · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    nability programs are producing cost savings, revenue growth, competitive advantage and environmental benefits across corporate America, writes Harold L. Sirkin, a senior partner of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in a Businessweek management blog.
Adriana Trujillo

Walgreens Unveils America's First Net Zero Retail Outlet - 0 views

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    The biggest pharmaceutical chain in the United States has opened what is believed to be the nation's first net zero energy store.
Adriana Trujillo

Over 75% of Unilever's factories achieve zero non-hazardous waste to landfill | Media centre | Unilever Global - 0 views

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    London/Rotterdam, 9 April 2014. Unilever announced today that all its factories across Europe have joined those in North America in achieving zero non-hazardous waste to landfill. With similar achievements in countries from Argentina to Indonesia, it means more than three-quarters of the company's global factory network no longer sends such waste to landfill, up from 20% just three years ago.
Adriana Trujillo

One Million Households Added to Carton Recycling · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    The Carton Council of North America says that just over one million households had cartons added to their recycling programs between January and March. That brings the total of US households with access to 56,970,294.
Adriana Trujillo

Climate Change Study Finds U.S. Is Already Widely Affected - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Climate change is already hitting America hard, according to a new study, leading to water shortages in dry regions, heavy rains in wet regions, more frequent and severe heat waves, worse wildfires, and forests die-offs. "Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present," the National Climate Assessment warns
Del Birmingham

PG&E Supports California GHG Reduction Goal · Environmental Leader · Environmental Management & Sustainable Development News - 0 views

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    California Gov. Jerry Brown yesterday announced an executive order establishing the most ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target in North America - a goal to reduce emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. PG&E said it applauds the new goal and says it is attainable "with the right structures."
Adriana Trujillo

Ranchers and Environmentalists Fight TX Pipeline | Al Jazeera America - 1 views

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    Texas ranchers have forged an unlikely partnership with environmental activists to protest the 143-mile Trans-Pecos pipeline, which if completed would carry natural gas from West Texas to the Mexican border. "We all agree that the land needs to be regarded a little more highly," said Joel Nelson, manager of the Anchor cattle ranch
Adriana Trujillo

Consumers to Food and Beverage Brands: Step Up Recycling Efforts · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Consumers expect companies to play an active role in recycling and they want a product's packaging to tell them if it is recyclable, according to a survey conducted by Research Data + Insights on behalf of the Carton Council of North America.
Adriana Trujillo

America Needs a Real Definition of What a 'Natural' Food Is | WIRED - 0 views

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    Major food brands, including Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, have recently announced that they're going "natural" by ditching chemical additives, unsustainable palm oil and other potential nasties. The lack of a standardized definition for "natural" product claims will water down the impact of such efforts and make it easier for less conscientious rivals to jump on the bandwagon, writes Nick Stockton. 
Adriana Trujillo

What Colgate-Palmolive, Campbell and GM share: carbon pricing | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    Companies including Campbell Soup, Colgate-Palmolive and Owens Corning use internal pricing mechanisms to keep tabs on, and hopefully reduce, their carbon emissions. That's a sign that business leaders are preparing for regulatory measures aimed at curbing carbon emissions, says Lance Pierce, president of nonprofit CDP North America. "The world's biggest companies anticipate a future in which their carbon emissions carry a price," he said. 
Adriana Trujillo

Coca-Cola's new environmentally friendly bottle is made of plants - 0 views

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    CNN Money reports that approximately 30% of Coke bottles in North America are PlantBottles, but only 7% of Coke bottles around the world are made from plant materials. The company's goal is to use PlantBottles exclusively by 2020.
Adriana Trujillo

PepsiCo backs new tool to predict water risks | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    This new scenario modeling system helps planners in Latin America and the Caribbean make more informed infrastructure investments.
Adriana Trujillo

Apple Faces Pollution Charges - Again · Environmental Management & Sustainability News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    An Apple supplier in China making iPhone and iPad parts violated a number of health and safety, environmental and human rights laws, according to a report released by China Labor Watch and Green America.
Del Birmingham

Study links polar vortex chills to melting sea ice - 0 views

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    A new study says that as the world gets warmer, parts of North America, Europe and Asia could see more frequent and stronger visits of that cold air. Researchers say that's because of shrinking ice in the seas off Russia.
Adriana Trujillo

Honeywell Helps Army Depot Boost Energy Efficiency | Energy Manager Today - 1 views

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    Mars Chocolate North America achieved zero-waste-to-landfill at all 10 of its manufacturing facilities. The company plans to achieve zero-waste to-landfill across all business segments by 2015.
Adriana Trujillo

General Mills, Coke, KB Home Launch Campaign Urging Bolder Business Action to Conserve Water | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    A coalition of companies with skin in the game - food and beverage giants General Mills, Driscoll's and Coca-Cola North America, Gap Inc., Symantec and home builder KB Home - are coming together to launch a new campaign urging companies to enact more aggressive measures to maximize California's local and state water resources.
Adriana Trujillo

Ethanol Producer Magazine - The Latest News and Data About Ethanol Production - 0 views

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    The American Business Act on Climate Pledge has been signed by a number of leaders in the biofuel industry, including Abengoa Bioenergy, DSM North America, Novozymes, Pacific Ethanol and Poet. A total of 81 companies, of which at least 11 have biofuel industry connections, signed the document to show their dedication to the fight against climate change. Other biofuel companies that signed the pledge were Aemetis, Cargill, Fulcrum BioEnergy, Schneider Electric, Siemens and Syngenta/Quad County Corn Processors
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