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- 16 May 2012: Sustainability’s Intangible Upsides Produce Value Beyond Energy (Video) - Posted by: Dan Probst Energy and Sustainability Services Sustainability has long been in the C-suite lexicon, but senior managers are beginning to consider the idea with a view beyond cost savings. Shareholders and customers alike are seeking assurance that companies are “doing the right thing” with regard to the environment, while employees increasingly prefer a [...]
- 15 May 2012: On your marks, get set, GO! 2012 Olympics in London - Posted by: Dave Carlos EMEA Upstream Sustainability Services With less than 80 days to go to the Games, East London Business Alliance (ELBA) kindly hosted a visit to the London Olympic site in Stratford, which I was lucky enough to attend. I stepped on the tour bus, the guide said “Welcome to the 2012 Olympic [...]
- 10 May 2012: The Natural Gas Revolution and Its Impact on Sustainability - Posted by: Bob Best Energy and Sustainability Services America is undergoing an energy revolution based on natural gas – with some interesting ramifications for the sustainability movement. We are now virtually shaking natural gas out of plentiful shale deposits throughout the country. According to a 5/4/12 article in The Economist, we are now sucking out [...]
- 4 May 2012: Jason Jones – “Picture Yourself Green” Winner!! - Congratulations to our “Picture Yourself Green” Earth Day contest winner Jason Jones of Procter & Gamble who submitted the below picture. Jason and team took home the $200 grand prize with a whopping 1,841 votes! Thanks everyone for participating and congratulations to our winners!!
- 3 May 2012: Eco Cities in China – Sustainability with Chinese Characteristics - Posted by: Graham Coutts International Director, Shanghai As China urbanizes at an unprecedented rate, the need for strong environmental and sustainability measures is at the forefront of urban planning. Throughout China, zero emission, low noise electric bicycles and scooters are enormously popular and inexpensive and a complete contrast to the noisy fume emitting and inefficient [...]
- 2 May 2012: How to build trust through transparent reports - Posted by: Anne-Sophie Blin EMEA Upstream Sustainability Services There is a paradox in the increasingly crowded world of corporate responsibility (CR) communications: although the size of CR Reports keep increasing to comply with stringent industry standards, some key information sometimes gets lost on the way. This is particularly the case with one principle set by [...]
- 1 May 2012: Look To Package AC Units to Cut Commercial Building Energy - Posted by: Bob Best Energy and Sustainability Services A study published late last year by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory indicates that control strategies for existing package air conditioning units could dramatically reduce energy use in commercial buildings. Consider that package cooling equipment is used in 46% of commercial buildings, representing over 60% of all [...]
- 30 April 2012: Last day to vote! - If you haven’t already, please make sure you vote for your favorite Earth Day photo submission, out of the top 5 finalists below. Cast your vote on the poll (right-hand column of this web page) to support the team you think did the best job representing the theme “Picture Yourself Green”! Winners will be announced [...]
- 23 April 2012: Help Pick Our Winners! - Thanks to the many, many people who submitted photos for our Earth Day contest! Below are our five finalists’ photos. These were chosen on the basis of creativity and relativity to our contest theme of capturing energy and sustainability, in other words “going green”. Now, it’s YOUR turn to vote. Use our Green Blog poll, [...]
- 23 April 2012: It’s free and everyone is doing it: GRESB sustainability survey - Posted by: Laura Jockers EMEA Upstream Sustainability Services We have been singing the praises of sustainability benchmarking for over 15 years because it drives real environmental and social performance in the building environment. So I’m really excited about our involvement in the The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). The GRESB is a free annual sustainability [...]
