Hilton Worldwide offers carbon offset for events by buying credits

Hilton Worldwide, the global hospitality company, introduced a program where events and meetings held at its properties across Southeast Asia can offset their carbon emissions. Under the program, Hilton Worldwide will manage emissions that will be generated by all events at its 11 properties located in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, and buy credits to offset their carbon footprint. The program will be...

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“Green” data centers market to skyrocket by 2016

Modern governments and companies depend on data centers housing thousands of servers to run applications, provide information, facilitate communication and carry out a wide range of processes. This demand for data center capacity has resulted in a sharp rise in information technology costs and a constant increase in the sectors carbon emissions. The combination of soaring energy costs,...

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Method for carbon footprinting thousands of products developed

Researchers at Columbia University’s Earth Institute have developed a new software that can rapidly gauge the carbon footprint of thousands of products simultaneously. Working with the institute’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy and PepsiCo, Inc., the initial goal of the project was to assess and standardize PepsiCo’s projections of the amount of carbon emitted by a product from the time it is made,

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Alaska Air Group boasts recycling, efficiency gains for 2011

Enough to build three new airplanes – that’s how much aluminum the Alaska Air Group recycled in 2011 according to their first comprehensive corporate sustainability report released this week. The Alaska Air Group, through its subsidiaries Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, serves 90 cities throughout North America, including Alaska, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. In its report, the group highlighted its in-flight...

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‘Green’ companies have more productive employees

Companies looking to boost their productivity should think about “going green” as a University of California, Los Angeles-led study found that employees in companies who follow green practices are 16 percent more productive than the average. According to the study’s findings, employees in firms that voluntarily adopt international green practices and standards are more motivated, receive more training and benefit from better interpersonal relationships.

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China to lead pathway in carbon capture storage technology

While China is taking on renewable sources to slash emissions, coal remains a big part of the country’s energy mix accounting for about two thirds, according to International Energy Agency projections. How to make both ends of using coal and reducing carbon footprint meet? Carbon capture store system technology could be the way to do so. As China reinforces its emissions reduction efforts and yet keeps...

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Ikea plugs in Minnesota’s largest solar installation

Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, activated new solar arrays in its Twin Cities store in Bloomington, Minnesota – the largest photovoltaic installation in the state thus far. The solar facility is expected to generate around 1,161,328 kilowatt-hours of clean power annually – enough to provide electricity to 100 households per year.

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FedEx and a sustainable shipping business model

Four years ago shipping company giant FedEx made a commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its FedEx Express aircraft and to further the fuel efficiency of its vehicle fleet by 20 percent by 2020. Now, with the recent release of its Global Citizenship Report, the company said it is “well on its way” to achieving this ambitious goal. FedEx has reduced its aircraft emissions...

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Unilever and DHL partner for sustainable business practices

Would it be nice to know that the world’s largest global brands are not only leaders of industry but are also taking the lead in espousing environmental responsibility? Consumer goods company Unilever and logistics group DHL extended their partnership in a program aimed at accelerating their adoption of sustainable business models and technologies.

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I.F.C. and G.S.M.A. join hands to broaden ‘green power’ in the mobile industry

International Finance Corporation, a private sector arm of the World Bank, signed an agreement with GSMA, a global organization representing the interests of mobile operators, to amplify the utilization of “green power” technologies at network sites in areas with limited or no grid power access. The collaboration is expected to substantially reduce carbon emissions, while optimizing business models of mobile operators worldwide.

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