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Nalco Announces Transportation and Energy Surcharge
Nalco (NYSE: NLC), providing essential expertise for water, energy and air, announced today it will be enacting a transportation and energy surcharge on products shipped to North American customers in select industries, effective May 1, 2011. The surcharge is necessary due to the significant and rapidly escalating increases associated with fuel and energy costs. This surcharge will be based on ...
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The supply chain: where is it headed in 2011?
Taiga Company Blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company Driven by evolving market conditions, consumer expectations, global policy, and a wide variety of progressive business sustainability action in 2010, supply chain management will continue to evolve in the coming year. 2010 marked a growing trend in progressive supply chain organizations towards increased supply ...
By 3BL Media
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Verisae announces election of Marty Leestma to Board of Directors
Verisae, the global leader of Sustainability Resource Planning (“SRP”), announces the election of Marty Leestma to the Board of Directors. Mr. Leestma is currently a consultant to growing businesses and Chairman of Forthright Solutions, a global provider of transaction processing and resolution services. He spent over 20 years with Accenture, most recently as its global managing ...
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Enlighted Inc. Named in the 2012 Global Cleantech 100
Enlighted Inc. today announced it was named to the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100, produced by Cleantech Group, a leading global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and the environment. Enlighted perfects built environments by making them responsive to the people and functions they support with leading-edge sensors, analytics, and controls. “This is a great ...
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EPA awards grants for students to design sustainable technologies to help environment and economy
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $15,000 grants to the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo., for two teams of students to design solutions to challenges in the developed and developing world. One team will develop a window ventilation system to keep energy costs down. The other team is developing a system for transmitting electrical power that reduces ...
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Verisae to Host Annual User Conference
Verisae, the leading global provider of SaaS-enabled technology that drives cost reductions in maintenance, energy, and environmental management, is pleased to announce its annual User Conference, “EFFICIENCY 2012.” The conference will take place October 1 – October 3, 2012 in Minneapolis, MN and will provide customers the opportunity to ...
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Verisae offers sustainability solutions in support of Executive Order 13514
Issued by President Obama in early October, Executive Order 13514 (“EO”) promises an integrated approach to sustainability across federal agencies. All agencies must submit a comprehensive strategic sustainability and performance plan by the beginning of 2010. The EO represents a challenge for many sustainability planners, as agencies must first understand the scale of energy usage and greenhouse ...
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New Report: impact of the global financial crisis on the water sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
Summary The purpose of this report is to provide an analysis of the impact of the global financial crisis (“the crisis”) on financial flows to the water sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To gain an insight into the impact requires first of all an understanding of how the water sector is financed and then the extent to which these financing sources are impacted by the crisis. The ...
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Envido wins contract with Geodis Wilson
Envido has been chosen by global freight management giant, Geodis Wilson, to help manage its journey towards carbon neutrality.Geaodis Wilson’ journey to carbon neutralityWith a network of offices and air and ocean hubs in 36 countries, Geodis Wilson, is one of the world’s leading global logistics providers. Geodis Wilson wanted to demonstrate its commitment to reducing its carbon emissions to ...
By Vital Energi
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Can PepsiCo Inspire Sustainable Development in Africa?
SOURCE: PepsiCo DESCRIPTION:In late August, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) awarded PepsiCo the Stockholm Industry Water Award here at World Water Week. The ceremony summed up the mood here among the 2500 delegates from 43 countries: ominous warnings about the world’s impending water crisis with an air of cautious optimism. SIWI awarded the prize to PepsiCo for the company’s ...
By 3BL Media
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Verisae partners with Rapid Consulting Services to expand opportunities for market leading SRP platform
Verisae, the global leader in Sustainability Resource Planning (“SRP”) software, announced today that Rapid Consulting Services has joined the company's expanding partner program. Rapid, based in Irvine, California, specializes in helping customers with corporate sustainability and carbon accounting initiatives. Started in 2007 by a group of former SAP employees, Rapid has experienced strong ...
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Andrew Schafer joins Verisae’s UK CRC reporting deployment team
Verisae has announced that Mr. Andrew Schafer has joined its EMEA team as Director of Sustainability Resource Planning (SRP). Andrew was previously a Senior Managing Consult in IBM's Energy and Environment team in the United Kingdom. He was IBM's global lead on carbon emissions management and carbon business case development. Andrew was a subject matter expert on the UK's Carbon Reduction ...
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The EI Group, Inc. Presents at EUEC 2011
February 4, 2011 Research Triangle Park, NC – Michael L. Walker, Vice President of Energy & Environment for The EI Group, Inc. (EI), provided two presentations this week at the 2011 Energy, Utility & Environment Conference (EUEC) in Phoenix, Arizona. The EUEC is one of the nation’s premier conferences on U.S. energy independence and energy conservation and draws thousands of ...
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Salazar announcement shows new approach to offshore energy at Department of Interior
US Department of Interior Secretary Salazar announced this week that he is going to take a thorough review of the five-year OCS oil and gas leasing program that was announced in the final days of the Bush administration. Following is a statement by Wesley Warren, director of programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council: “There’s a new way of doing business at the Department of Interior ...
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Study reveals sustainability is a “must have” for long-term business viability
The ROI of Sustainability: Making the Business Case, announced by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE:HHS), serves as a roadmap for those attempting to match environmental and social stewardship to clear and measurable improvements to their operations and financial results – thus ensuring the continued viability of their business. Far from being a philanthropic 'nice to have,' top ...
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Alcoa Jamalco Reaches Bauxite Milestone Using Sustainable Transport System
Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Jamalco Operations, using a sustainable transport system, has reached a milestone: hauling 10 million tons of bauxite from its Mount Oliphant mine to the rail station, where it is loaded for shipping to the company’s Clarendon alumina refinery. The record was achieved in less than two years using a Rope Conveyor (RopeCon®) system, a 2.11 mile (3.4 kilometer) cable ...
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R. Baker & Son All Industrial in the LEED on GREEN since 1935
With alarming environmental topics like global warming and energy costs dominating our headlines, “green” has the word in business today. At long last, American industry is finally recognizing the importance of taking steps to reduce their impact onour fragile environment. For R. Baker & Son, though, “being green” is nothing new; we have been providing environmental services since 1935.One ...
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EPA picks state capitals to create models of green design
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today committed to help the capital cities of five states pursue high quality green development that includes cleaning up and recycling vacant lands, providing greater housing and transportation choices, and reducing infrastructure and energy costs. Through its new Greening America’s Capitals program, the EPA will fund private sector experts to ...
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Verisae Names Bob Tuttle Executive Vice President of Field Operations
Verisae, a leading global provider of maintenance, energy, and environmental management solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Bob Tuttle as Executive Vice President (EVP) of Field Operations. Mr. Tuttle has over 20 years of experience developing highly effective, scalable sales teams in high-growth retail technology companies. In his role he will ...
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Frost & Sullivan launches green building technologies market tracking service
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, has launched the first ever ongoing study of building specifiers and facility managers in the commercial sector about their awareness, adoption, plans and spending on green building technologies. The programme will cover the main 5 European countries: UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain on an ongoing basis. The green building promise has ...
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