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Intel Sets 2020 Environmental Goals

by 3BL Media Press Release
Posted on May 17, 2012 by 3BL Media Press Release

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Building on nearly 2 decades of reporting on its environmental commitments and performance, Intel Corporation today released its 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report, which includes new 2020 environmental goals to drive continuous improvement in the company’s manufacturing operations and the energy efficiency of its products. Intel’s new 2020 environmental goals include:

“From product to customer to employee to environment, corporate responsibility allows Intel to have a greater and more influential impact on industries, communities and the global economy.”

  • Reduce direct greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent on a per chip basis by 2020 from 2010 levels1.
  • Design all new buildings to a minimum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification between 2010 and 2020.
  • Increase the energy efficiency of notebook computers and data center products 25 times by 2020 from 2010 levels2.
  • Achieve additional energy savings of 1.4 billion kWh from 2012 to 2015, and publish additional energy conservation targets for 2016–2020 in its 2012 report.
  • Reduce water use on a per chip basis below 2010 levels by 2020.
  • Achieve zero chemical waste to landfill by 2020. Continue reading →
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Koch Brothers front group Heartland Institute Ends Experiment with ‘Unabomber’ Global Warming Billboard

by CGR Staff Writer
Posted on May 5, 2012 by CGR Staff Writer

It is sometimes difficult to explain to people that live outside the United States why the question of ‘Global Warming’ is still being debated there.  The fact that the earth is warming is pretty obvious for anyone with the ability to count. However, for anyone that has been exposed to more than a couple hours of US television, welcome to the twilight zone.  Pro fossil-fuel organizations spend hundreds of millions of dollars on TV ads which distort energy issue beyond recognition.

On American TV coal is clean, natural gas doesn’t have any environmental side effects at all and domestic fossil fuel production is the ONLY path to future prosperity.  The scientists at the big oil companies are also nature’s very best friends.  It is a wonderful and harmonious world.

One of the organizations at the forefront of this culture of disinformation is the Heartland Institute.  In short, they are an organization that corporations go to, pay money and in exchange they get a bogus ‘scientific’ report that say basically whatever they want it to say.  This report will then be touted as something ‘scientific’ and pumped out to the media.  Propaganda to order – Stalin would be impressed.  Major funders – Koch Industries. Continue reading →

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Citi to Purchase 1.17 Million Tonnes of Carbon Credits

by CGR Staff Writer
Posted on April 28, 2012 by CGR Staff Writer

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In a deal that combines microloans in Mongolia with the sale of carbon credits on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), Citi’s London-based Environmental Products Trading and Origination team, working with Citi Microfinance, has agreed to purchase 1.17 million metric tonnes of carbon credits over the next seven years from Seattle-based social enterprise MicroEnergy Credits. The carbon credits will be generated by capturing reductions of greenhouse gas emissions following the installation of more efficient household insulation and heating fixtures in Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city in Mongolia. The purchase and installation of the fixtures will be funded through microloans from Mongolia’s XacBank.

“Under this arrangement, we are implementing an innovative market-based strategy to tackle real challenges faced by developing countries.”

Under the arrangement, a XacBank customer will purchase an energy efficient stove or home insulation products like a “ger blanket,” which covers a ger, the traditional and ubiquitous Mongolian portable tent-like structures in which more than one quarter of the Ulaanbaatar population lives. Gers are traditionally under-insulated and heated by inefficient coal-burning stoves that contribute to Ulaanbaatar’s especially severe air pollution. Ger blankets greatly increase heat retention, and, like energy efficient stoves, lower the rate of fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Continue reading →

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Major Investors Warn Energy Companies of Business Risks in Flaring Gas at Shale Oil Wells

by CGR Staff Writer
Posted on March 30, 2012 by CGR Staff Writer

(3BL Media) Boston, MA – March 29, 2012 – With escalating shale oil production putting the US on track to become the world’s largest oil producer, investors are challenging an increasingly common industry practice – burning off or ‘flaring’ associated natural gas from shale oil wells – as environmentally damaging, economically wasteful and a threat to the industry’s bottom line.

“We are concerned that excessive flaring, because of its impact on air quality and climate change, poses significant risks for the companies involved, and for the industry at large, ultimately threatening the industry’s license to operate,” wrote three-dozen investors in a letter sent this week to 21 of the industry’s largest shale oil producers, including Continental Resources and Chesapeake Energy.

The letter notes that in North Dakota alone, which produced an average of 418,000 barrels each day last year and is now the third largest source of domestic oil production behind Texas and Alaska, annual flaring-related emissions were equivalent to more than two million tons of carbon dioxide, as much as adding 384,000 cars to the road. Continue reading →

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Sustainia on the Look-out for Top 100 Sustainable Solutions

by 3BL Media Press Release
Posted on March 29, 2012 by 3BL Media Press Release

(3BL Media) Copenhagen – 28 March 2012 – The Schwarzenegger-backed Sustainia project is gathering 100 solutions for a sustainable tomorrow. Titled Sustainia100, the solutions will be delivered to decision-makers during Rio+20 to inspire discussions. In addition, solutions selected for the Sustainia100 will be registered as nominees for the Sustainia Award. Submissions of projects are open until 20 April via sustainia.me.

The objective of the Sustainia100 and the Sustainia Award is to present existing solutions that help build a desirable and realistic sustainable society. Sustainia invites corporations, organizations and engaged individuals to present their sustainable ideas and solutions. A wide range of projects are welcomed, ranging from local community initiatives to large scale technology solutions.

“We are looking for the great ideas, innovations and technologies that take us to Sustainia. Our aim is to provide a strong international platform showcasing the ready and available sustainable solutions. Sustainia100 is the people, companies, communities and organizations that represent the greatest story never told: that bottom-up change is in fact already happening and at an impressive speed,” says
Executive Director of Sustainia, Laura Storm. Continue reading →

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Preparing for a Low Carbon Economy to Be Presented by U.S. Green Building Council (LEED)

by CGR Staff Writer
Posted on March 26, 2012 by CGR Staff Writer

TUSTIN, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The USGBC Orange County will feature an event on Thursday, March 29, 2012 focused upon Preparing for a Low Carbon Economy. In 2007, global carbon trading activities were valued at 65 billion Euros; by 2020, trading volume could grow to 2 trillion Euros. The USGBC-OC has scheduled Environmental Entrepreneur of the Year Award semi-finalist Doug Smith to discuss how carbon markets will play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and driving investment in low-carbon technologies and services. The presentation will address preparing for a new low-carbon economy involving nations, companies and individuals.

Speaker Doug Smith is an environmental entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the business sector. He is the founder and CEO of Village Green Global, Inc., which provides online energy reporting and carbon emission analysis to companies worldwide. Doug has a Masters in Sustainable Practice and has recently lectured in Environmental Pollution Management at Chapman University in California and the Royal Institute of Technology in Australia.

The presentation will take place on Thursday, March 29th from 5:30 pm. to 8:00 p.m., with a networking opportunity and mixer from 5:30 to 6:30 and the presentation from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The meeting will be located at 14725 Alton Parkway, Irvine, CA 92618. Sponsors include Platinum Founding Sponsor Edison, Gold Founding Partners Glumac and Pro Repro, Annual Silver Sponsors and Event Sponsor RBF Consulting, a Company of Michael Baker Corporation, Snyder Langston, and Annual Friends Fuscoe Engineering and CSL Enterprises. This meeting is open to the public. The cost of the event is $25.00 for members, $35.00 for non-members and $15.00 for emerging professional members and students with student I.D. An additional charge of $5.00 will be applied for registration at the door. For pre registration, contact Vicki Phillipy at vphillipy@usgbc-oc.org. Continue reading →

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‘Planet under Pressure’ Forum to take Place in London

by 3BL Media Press Release
Posted on March 21, 2012 by 3BL Media Press Release

(3BL Media) London – March 21, 2012 – The future of the oceans, poverty alleviation, global trade, biodiversity and food security are among research areas that will be at the core of the “Planet under Pressure” (PUP) conference this month with more than 2,500 participants, including several scientists from Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability.

“The agenda for worldwide sustainability science will be set at this conference,” stressed Sander van der Leeuw, dean of ASU’s School of Sustainability and a PUP conference participant. “The whole of the research agenda for sustainability science for the next several years will be recast and the funding reorganized to take account of the discussions at this conference,” he said.

According to organizers, the Planet under Pressure forum will provide a comprehensive update of human knowledge of the Earth system and the pressure the planet is now under, based on the latest scientific evidence. This major international science gathering, held March 26-29 in London, is designed to focus on solutions to the global sustainability challenge, organizers said. It will discuss solutions, at all scales, to move societies onto a sustainable pathway. Additionally, it will provide scientific leadership toward the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio +20”) in Rio de Janeiro this June.

ASU research professor and Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom is the chief scientific advisor for the Planet under Pressure conference. Continue reading →

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Britain opens $30 million funding for green vehicles and buildings (Ecoseed.org)

by CGR Staff Writer
Posted on March 12, 2012 by CGR Staff Writer

(Ecoseed.org) The British government, through the Technology Strategy Board, announced a total of £19.5 million ($31 million) in funding for two competitive programs in the transportation and green building sectors.

The £9.5 million low-carbon truck demonstration program will partly fund the difference in capital costs between traditional vehicles and low-carbon equivalents that a participating operator wants to incorporate in their fleet.

The aim is to encourage road haulage operators in Britain to buy and use low-carbon commercial vehicles.

The Department for Transport will provide £8 million in funds while the Technology Strategy Board will provide up to £1.5 million. Continue reading →

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