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Timberland reduces GHG emissions by 36%, on track to reach 50% goal by end of 2010
The Timberland Company (NYSE: TBL), a leading outdoor footwear and apparel company and environmental steward, today announced that it has achieved a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The company successfully reduced its emissions by 36 percent in 2009 over its 2006 baseline coming from Timberland owned and operated facilities and employee air travel. Timberland is on pace to ...
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Siemens Opens Grid Control Center of the Future With Research and Scientific Partners
As part of the DynaGridCenter research project co-funded by the German BMWi (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy), Siemens and its research and scientific partners have opened a dynamic grid control center at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, that is the first of its kind in the world. The project involved setting up an IT link between the grid control center and a grid ...
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New cloud computing network could cut GHG emissions from ICT
The growing use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services is producing an increasing amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. New research has proposed a network model spanning Europe, USA and Canada that uses ‘cloud computing’ to supply renewable energy to IT data centres. Current approaches to reducing GHGs from ICT focus on reducing energy consumption at the ...
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EQECAT narrows range of estimated onshore insured losses from Hurricane Ike based upon reconnaissance-team reports
EQECAT, Inc., the leading authority on extreme-risk modeling, Friday afternoon (Eastern Time) said, based upon reconnaissance-team reports of damage caused by Hurricane Ike, and additional post-landfall data regarding the storm’s characteristics, it has narrowed its estimated onshore insured losses to a range of $8 billion to $12 billion, from an initial estimated range of $8 billion to $18 ...
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63 Businesses Across 30 Industries Honored as 'Best for the Environment'
Today, 63 companies across 30 industries and 11 countries were recognized for creating the most positive environmental impact by the nonprofit B Lab, with the release of the ‘B Corp Best for the Environment List’, a second installment in its ‘B Corp Best for the World’ series. Companies earning this honor include well known brands such as Method Products, New Belgium Brewing Company, Patagonia ...
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