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Today’s news from around the web.
The New [Package] Deal
QSR Magazine
Environmentalists push FPL to use less energy
Sun Sentinel
Electricity for Americans From Russia’s Old Nuclear Weapons
NY Times
Greenpeace Keeps Heat On Newsweek Over Climate Change Event With Oil Lobby
TPM
Enterprise Sustainability and Greening Data Centers
TriplePundit
What’s Next for the Climate Bill?
WSJ
PG&E refutes suit alleging price-gouging via smart meters
GreenBeat
Over the past several weeks, five states and one city have launched green lodging certification programs, reports Green Lodging News. These new certifications for green lodging operations are in New York, Oklahoma, Indiana, South Carolina, Maryland, and Buffalo, N.Y.
The Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department’s launched a new travel initiative called ECO or Encouraging Conservation in [...]
Businesses across all sectors including health care, manufacturing and information technology (IT) are seeking the coveted LEED certification to ensure that their new buildings meet the highest of environmental standards. Some of the most recent LEED projects include Spectrum Health, Fortune Data Centers and Allied Tube Conduit.
Spectrum Health Hospital Group’s Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion has earned LEED [...]
PepsiCo has saved more than 750,000 megawatt hours of energy and more than 7.5 billion liters of water as a result of gains in energy and water efficiency compared to the 2006 baseline, according to the company’s 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report (PDF).
The food and beverage company is committed to cutting company-wide water use by 20 [...]
Carbon-rich peatlands may trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market, according to a new study, reports Reuters.
Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are released when peatlands are logged or drained for agriculture, and even more when the dried bogs catch fire and release toxic haze into the [...]
Wind energy may benefit from a pilot program that would charge utility customers more for using electricity during the peak hours of 2-8 p.m.
Proposed by Xcel Energy to be used in Boulder, Colo., the program – if adopted on a wider scale – would reduce the need for so-called “peaking” power stations, reports the Daily [...]
The Bronx, New York, operation of FedEx will become the company’s first to exclusively use hybrid delivery vans. The addition of 51 new delivery vehicles brings the facility’s total to about 100 hybrid trucks.
After the new vehicles from Azure Dynamics Corp. are added, FedEx’s hybrid fleet will total 325 vehicles, according to a press release.
Especially [...]
Corporate campuses and other commercial sites can turn to a new rating system to help design more sustainable and environmentally friendly landscapes.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative has released a system for rating landscapes as they are created. While the system is likely to see more use in the beginning from public parks and recreation areas, the [...]
At the higher levels in the manufacturing enterprise the facilities (office building and plant HVAC, administrative, employee services like cafeterias, etc., packaging and shipping) dominate.
As we move down through the production systems and their associated consumables (with their energy, water, materials, compressed air, part and material delivery and removal, maintenance, etc.) and further down to [...]
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