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Reducing Wasted Food In Tennessee

About 15 percent of Tennessee households are food insecure, and almost 1.2 million tons of food are landfilled annually. The state is moving quickly to address both realities. It is increasingly apparent that food waste and food insecurity in the United States is a problem, and it has especially hit home in Tennessee. An estimated 15.1 percent of Tennessee households are food insecure, which ...

Aug. 11, 2017

By BioCycle Magazine

Software monitoring on sustainability performance on the rise

New survey reveals companies using software to monitor sustainability performance rose by 50% in the last four years. New survey reveals companies using software to monitor sustainability performance rose by 50% in the last four years.The proportion of companies that use software to monitor their sustainability performance increased by 50% between 2006 and 2010, according to a new ...

Mar. 10, 2011

By Vital Efficienci Ltd.

Airports and Sustainability: Achieving High Performance Sustainable Airports

Airports are the nodes and pulses of the modern day world or let’s say the highly connected ‘Global Village’. They have enabled the governments and corporate in galvanizing the whole logistic and supply chain networks, thereby building both local as well as national economy. However the flip side is that airports are guzzling resources worth billions of dollars each year, and ...

Apr. 1, 2016

By Conserve Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

Company culture and EHS / sustainability performance

Recognizing and managing your company’s culture is critical to understanding and managing EHS and sustainability performance. Performance is driven by employee behaviors, and employee behaviors are driven by the intangible aspects of your company’s culture that are not written down in policies, programs and procedures. All behavior is rewarded, whether it is desired or unwanted ...

Nov. 6, 2014

By Antea Group - USA

Culture – the key to sustainable process safety performance

What is culture? Some companies wonder why they keep experiencing the same process safety problems. Others wonder why they have plateaued in process safety performance. Culture is KEY. It is the individual and organizational 'DNA' that represents our tendency to want to do (1) the right thing (2) in the right way (3) at the right time, (4) ALL the time – even when no one is looking.The safety ...

Sep. 22, 2008

By ABS Consulting

Symantec - How an IT Company improves its Sustainability Performance

Sector: Information Technology (IT) Region: US Organisation: Symantec was founded in 1982 and the company has become one of the world’s largest software companies with more than 20,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Symantec provides security, storage and systems management solutions to individual consumers, small businesses and the largest global organisations, ...

Apr. 12, 2012

By Article 13

The future of corporate reporting is sustainable business performance management

The future of corporate reporting is Sustainable Business Performance Management. Today, this seems to be true more than ever. Non-financial disclosure is a marketplace expectation for any company reporting information to stakeholders. It is more crucial than ever to give stakeholder a throughout picture of your organisations performance. Integrating non-financials to Corporate Performance ...

May 8, 2009

By Tofuture Oy

Sustainability Related Indices - Measuring the Supplier’s Performance

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Feb. 12, 2013

By SGS

Integrating sustainability performance into investment strategies and decision-making

The number of investors who are integrating sustainability performance into their investment strategies and decision-making is on the rise. The number of signatories to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, an international network of investors working together to put the six Principles for Responsible Investment into practice, rose from 100 in April 2006 to 1,380 in ...

Aug. 19, 2015

By GLOBE SERIES

Sustainable manufacturing practices, sustaining lean improvements and sustainable performance in Malaysian automotive industry

This exploratory study seeks to determine the interrelationship between sustainable manufacturing practices (SMP), sustaining lean improvements (SLI) and sustainable performance (SP) in Malaysian automotive industry. The specific goals are: 1) to identify the SMP, SLI and SP measures for Malaysian automotive industry; 2) to investigate the impact of SMP and SLI on SP for Malaysian automotive ...

Oct. 1, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Models for evaluating energy, environmental and sustainability performance of biofuels value chain

Sustainable production of biofuels requires lots of feedstocks, developing robust technologies and industrial ecology-oriented biorefineries under the overarching principles of sustainability. Majority of existing methods for impacts analysis of biofuels have not considered the triple dimensions of sustainability. A critical challenge for any chain of biofuel traders is to develop and implement ...

Aug. 25, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Translating sustainability concerns at plant level asset operations: industrial performance assessment

The global society is threatened by the amount of plant level asset exploitation needed to satisfy the growing energy demand. The availability of a plentiful and affordable supply of energy is a requirement for the economic and societal pillars of sustainable development. In this context, the oil and gas industry will play a major role in the global energy mix for many years until alternate ...

Mar. 18, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Do certified sustainable buildings perform better than similar conventional buildings?

The aim of this study is to assess the performance of sustainable buildings. Its objective is to compare certified green buildings with similar in location, size, age and function conventional buildings by testing hypotheses that green buildings perform better than conventional ones. Objective data including building costs, energy and water consumption, material recycling, indoor pollution ...

Dec. 11, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Sustainability of banks' efficiency of EU member states and the association with economic performance

The goal of the present study is to examine the sustainability of banks' efficiency in the EU27 member states in the period from 2005 to 2008 after the last enlargement of the EU and to test for eventual association with economic performance. We were interested in the differences of the banks' efficiency among the EU 27 member states and especially in the differences between old and new EU member ...

Jun. 24, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Applying environmental performance indices towards an objective measure of sustainability in the Levant

An 'Environmental Diamond' for the Levant is proposed, similar to the World Bank's 'Development Diamond'. It would serve as a framework for evaluating ecosystem risk for the countries in the Jordan Basin that are currently facing a sustainability crisis. The approach followed by this paper was based on previous work carried out in East Asia. The result is an integrative index that reveals a ...

Sep. 23, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Assessing sustainability performance of built projects: a building process approach

Existing environmental performance assessment approaches focus on the overall performance to reflect sustainability of built projects. However, the impacts caused by construction activities on the environment occur throughout a project's life cycle which may be different at different stages. Similarly, the economic benefits and social impacts from implementing a construction project may also be ...

Dec. 17, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Sewage sludge minimisation by means of wet oxidation: process performance and economic sustainability

Today, several technologies and management strategies are proposed and applied in WWTPs to minimise sludge production and contamination and their techno–economic feasibility has to be carefully evaluated. In this work (which is being conducted within the European Union project 'ROUTES'), based on bench results, a mass balance was drawn for a WWTP (500,000 PE), where it was supposed to install a ...

May 27, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers

Measuring accessibility: prescriptions for performance measures of the creative and sustainable city

Urban journalists and researchers seek performance measures on how one city fares versus another in any dimension. An increasingly important performance measure relates to how well cities advance one important dimension of sustainability - decreased mobile source pollutants and decreased travel for vehicles - and how much driving and congestion is occurring. But is congestion really the problem? ...

Sep. 13, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Is a software-based EMS the only way to effectively improve sustainability performance?

Monitoring environmental impacts by tracking sustainability KPIs is essential for any business that wants to improve or report on environmental performance. But, from a financial perspective, how these environmental metrics are tracked is as important as the fact they are tracked. Results increasingly show a software-based EMS is the most effective way of improving environmental performance and ...

Jun. 24, 2011

By Intelex Technologies Inc.

Measuring sustainability performance in industrial parks: a case study of the Kwinana industrial area

Industrial parks/areas are increasingly required to substantiate their environmental and sustainability performance with increasing pressures from both government and the community. In order to address these pressures the Kwinana industrial area in Western Australia has started the development of a sustainability roadmap centred on a set of sustainability indicators developed through proactive ...

Aug. 8, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers

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