Archive for the 'environmental health' Category

Mar 09 2010

Get on the fast track to carbon emissions reporting

If your company is struggling with how to start reporting carbon emissions information quickly, there is a new service from environmental software company Enviance that may be appropriate. P.S., you’re not exactly alone in this. Apparently close to 61 percent of companies still don’t have any sort of carbon emissions tracking system in place. The Enviance Greenhouse [...]

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Mar 09 2010

CA formalizes relationships with energy-efficiency partners

Three new companies have allied themselves with the ecoSoftware business unit at CA. That means they offer technologies or services that work with CA ecoSoftware, which is an application for managing information about corporate sustainability, carbon footprint, operational energy and other environmental factors. CA’s three new partners are: Global Green Consulting Group, which is a sustainability performance [...]

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Mar 08 2010

Designing bad stuff out of tech isn’t an easy thing to do

How much time does it take to design an environmentally questionable material OUT of a product? Recent news out of IBM provides some perspective on just how tricky this can be. Early in March, the technology giant said it has eliminated two compounds known to have adverse long-time impacts from its chip manufacturing program. Those two [...]

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Mar 05 2010

Another case for ditching spreadsheets as environmental info collection tool

You’ll notice increasing coverage of some of the environmental management software packages here in GreenTech Pastures, because it is one the topics I’m trying to research more thoroughly. There are a couple of new products expected out next week. Meanwhile, just posted this mini-case study over at my Smart Planet blog, discussing how refining company [...]

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Feb 08 2010

Science underlying global warming–what do we “know?”

A new study by scientists in Britain suggests that climate change theory needs to carefully re-examine the assumptions about changes in the earth’s orbital position in relation to the sun. This study says the issue of the earth’s position is crucial in determining long-term effects and climate change trends. It was not considered [...]

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Feb 04 2010

Digital system to monitor a greenhouse gas in California

Methane emissions to be measured in California, a pioneering monitoring program in U.S.

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Feb 04 2010

Digital system to monitor a greenhouse gas in California

Methane emissions to be measured in California, a pioneering monitoring program in U.S.

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Feb 04 2010

Corn chips or biofuel? Feds push for more ethanol

EPA rules that ethanol is greener than gasoline.

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Feb 02 2010

Are there ideas creeping up on the American economy that will strengthen greentech?

Ecopsychology could become a boost to spread and use of greentech. "Save energy, it'll make you feel better."

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Feb 02 2010

Post-Copenhagen: the homework assignment has been turned in

Nations submit their voluntary greenhouse gas reduction plans to the UN.

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