Efforts by hospitals to develop "greener," or more environmentally sustainable operations result in significant savings rather than incur additional costs, according to a study of nine hospitals/health systems that underwent such changes in their operations over the last five years.
GrowLife Inc. (formerly known as Phototron Holdings, Inc.), an innovative leader in high end horticultural supply, today announced the signing of their first North American distribution deal with at-home gardening brand, Urban Cultivator earlier this week.
City leaders aspiring to transform their cities into models of sustainability must look beyond city limits and include in their calculation the global flow of goods and materials into their realm, argue researchers in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal Ambio.
Milliken & Company is highlighting the major advantages of its high-performance additives for packaging applications at PACK EXPO 2012, booth #4759, here in Chicago from Oct. 28-31. Milliken’s Millad® NX™ 8000 clarifying agents for polypropylene (PP) and Hyperform® nucleating agents for PP and polyethylene (PE) deliver notable improvements in appearance, performance, processability and sustainability.
Grupo Bimbo concluded today the largest and most important conversion to renewable energy sources done by a company in the food industry at a global level. Daniel Servitje, Grupo Bimbo CEO, started-up the operations of the Piedra Larga Wind Farm that will supply electric power to 45 facilities in Mexico, covering almost all of the company's operations in the country.
The award-winning Austrian green building firm CREE GmbH has opened its U.S. operations in San Francisco, CREE Buildings. The company's innovative timber and concrete hybrid technology enables architects to design stunning tall wood buildings up to 30 stories, that can be erected as quickly as a story a day.
The initiative, which is led by Medway Council, is being backed by a €4,261,405 grant from the European Development Fund. It’s part of ‘Ecotec 21’, an Anglo-French consortium set up to study Combined Heat and Power (CHP) technology, which captures the waste heat created by power plants and uses it for heating or hot water.
Newmont Mining Corporation announced that it was recognized for transparent climate change disclosure practices by the Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP) Leadership Index for the third consecutive year.
While today’s packaging professional is focused on cost, performance and food safety/security, sustainability will replace cost as a dominant trend in 10 years, according to a study done by Packaging World and DuPont. Food safety/security is and will remain a top trend, respondents say.
Syngenta and Novozymes today announced an exclusive global marketing and distribution agreement to commercialize Taegro®, a fermented biological fungicide based on a naturally occurring bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
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