IT Cabling Manufacturer Siemon’s American Operations are Significantly Carbon Negative
July 24, 2010Leave a Comment
Company’s carbon reductions and offsets exceed actual emissions by over 330%
Watertown, CT, USA – Siemon, a worldwide leader in IT network infrastructure, today announced that its U.S. and Canada operations have achieved carbon negativity. Siemon reached this green benchmark through an aggressive program of environmental improvement initiatives, including the development of more energy-efficient and [...]
Green Products
July 11, 2010Leave a Comment
Andy Soos, ENN – Life is confusing. When buying a product one has to consider whether it is green, inexpensive, actually works, and so forth and so on. There is also the life cycle of the product to consider. Is the product beneficial to the environment in the long [...]
Understanding Carbon Offsetting
July 8, 2010Leave a Comment
From: Karina Grudnikov, ENN, Sierra Club Green Home
Published July 6, 2010 11:27 AM
Most of us know about carbon emissions and understand the idea of our own individual “carbon footprint,” but here is a new concept that seems to be catching on: carbon offsetting. Carbon offsetting seems to be an indirect way to [...]
Agriculture and Bio-Based Industries to Generate $230 Billion; Create More than 800,000 Jobs
June 30, 2010Leave a Comment
World Economic Forum Report outlines Future for Biorefining Industry in U.S. and Globally
WASHINGTON， Jun 29, 2010– Today, during a keynote address at the BIO World Congress conference, Steen Riisgaard, CEO of Novozymes, a world leader in bioinnovation, unveiled a new report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) which concludes that [...]
EPA Supports Superfund “Polluter Pays” Provision
June 21, 2010Leave a Comment
Agency submits administration’s guidance to Congress
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today sent a letter to Congress in support of reinstating the lapsed Superfund “polluter pays” taxes. Superfund is the federal government’s program that investigates and cleans up the nation’s most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites. If reinstated, the Superfund provision would [...]
Novozymes and Lignol Sign Deal to Make Biofuel from Wood
June 16, 2010Leave a Comment
Partners to develop a commercially viable process for making ethanol from forestry waste. Aiming for a cost down to $2 per gallon, a price competitive with gasoline and corn ethanol.
BAGSVAERD, DENMARK June 15, 2010 – Novozymes, the world’s leading producer of industrial [...]
Who is Who in World Carbon Emissions
June 14, 2010Leave a Comment
Andy Soos, ENN — India’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rose by 58 per cent between 1994 and 2007 with the energy sector contributing over half of the emissions, a new government report said. India’s emissions are up from 1.2 billion tons in 1994 to 1.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide [...]
Farmers Benefit from Carbon Legislation
June 12, 2010Leave a Comment
The battle over who will regulate Green House Gas (GHG) continues, with no one winning.
The Supreme Court mandated that–in the absence of a legislative solution– the US Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) must enact regulations under the Clean Air Act—even though most acknowledge that regulation is not the ideal solution. [...]
Duke Environment School Launches Gulf Oil Spill Website and Experts List
June 9, 2010Leave a Comment
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment has launched a new website to provide reporters, policymakers and concerned citizens with the latest news and images of the spill, along with links to a list of researchers from Duke and [...]
Verizon to Add Almost 600 Hybrid Pickups to its Fleet
June 9, 2010Leave a Comment
GoodCleanTech, June 4, 2010 — Verizon has purchased 576 Chevrolet Silverado Two-Mode Hybrid full-size pickups in an effort to further green its truck fleet.
The two-mode Silverados, equipped with Vortec 6.0-liter V-8 engines, achieve an EPA estimated 21 MPG city and 22 MPG highway, which represents about a 40 percent reduction [...]