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Trends: July 1-15, 2012

Contents: ENERGY MANAGEMENT 3 COMPLIANCE & STANDARDS 4 ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY SOFTWARE 9 CORPORATE REPORTS 9 POLICY & ENFORCEMENT 10 FLEETS & TRANSPORTATION 17 GREEN BUILDING 20 PACKAGING & PAPER 20 WATER MANAGEMENT 21 WASTE & RECYCLING 22 RENEWABLE ENERGY 23 CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY 24 RANKINGS 25

In this issue: July 1-15, 2012 e 2011

Issue 19 • July 17, 2012

Latest sustainability & environmental management developments

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EL Trends: July 1-15, 2012

Contents: ENERGY MANAGEMENT 3 COMPLIANCE & STANDARDS 4 ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY SOFTWARE 7 CORPORATE REPORTS 8 POLICY & ENFORCEMENT 8 FLEETS & TRANSPORTATION 14 GREEN BUILDING 15 PACKAGING & PAPER 16 EXECUTIVE MOVES 16 WATER MANAGEMENT 18 WASTE & RECYCLING 19 RENEWABLE ENERGY 20 CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY 21 RANKINGS 22

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Energy Management

Utility Systems Solutions was awarded a $669,000 contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to thermally repair 1,452 feet of concrete trenches housing a significant portion of the campus’s steam-delivery system. The system is located in trenches between nine buildings at the VA medical campus. The goal is to reduce heat loss and save energy, while prolonging the life of the buried pipeline system.

Office Depot lowered energy consumption 37 percent in seven years, earning it a spot on the EPA’s list of 2012 Energy Star Leaders for Leadership in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

The average utility with at least one smart meter program in place has increased the frequency of its data collection by 180 times from just once a month to every four hours, according to a report from Oracle.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum recovered the higher initial cost of its LED retrofit project in 16 months of operation through energy savings, according to a final report evaluating the solid-state-lighting demonstration.

Deloitte, ERM, Fujitsu Services and Mahindra Satyam are among the tech service companies that will reap the benefits as large US firms spend $2.5 billion annually on technology consulting and systems integration relating to their energy and sustainability initiatives by 2015, according to a report from Verdantix.

ICF International was awarded a $13.5 million, 30-month contract to support the energy efficiency portfolio of a major US utility. Under the terms of the contract, ICF will promote increased energy efficiency in the residential market by implementing programs that promote high-efficiency HVAC systems, support energy audit and weatherization activities, and provide energy efficiency services to low-income customers.

Bay City, Texas, awarded Siemens a $9.3 million energy savings performance contract expected to reduce electricity consumption by nearly 30 percent and water use by more than 70 percent over 15 years. The contract, which will be financed and guaranteed by Siemens’ buildings technologies division, will focus on Bay City’s wastewater and potable water supply systems, water meters, municipal lighting and supporting information technology.

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Supermarkets are able to continually improve energy efficiency for much longer than is commonly believed, according to Dr. Rory Sullivan and Professor Andy Gouldson, leaders of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy project Governance Beyond the State? Corporations and the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy. Fewer than 20 percent of energy managers believe consultants, software firms, technology services providers and automation and controls suppliers have strong capabilities to help improve energy management, according to independent analyst firm Verdantix. The US General Services Administration procured about 300 million kWh of electricity – expected to save GSA more than $10.8 million through a series of online auctions with help from World Energy Solutions. GSA awarded two-year power contracts for its Manhattan and Upstate Service Centers, which are expected to yield annual savings of more than $3 million and $750,000 respectively. Australia’s largest water utility, Sydney Water, will begin installing Itron’s high-efficiency meters to replace old meters that serve its residential and commercial customers. Sydney Water serves more than 4.6 million people; the companies expect the meter installation to take three years. A whopping 85 percent of building owners and operators worldwide depend on energy management to drive their facilities’ operational efficiency, up 34 points in the last two years, according to a Johnson Controls survey. The survey also found about 46 percent of respondents in the US and Canada plan to increase spending on energy efficiency improvements in the next year.

Compliance & Standards

The ICLEI seeks feedback from local government staff and technical experts by July 30 for its development of the US national standard – Community-Scale GHG Emissions Accounting and Reporting Protocol – for measurement and reporting of communities’ greenhouse gas emissions. The final Community Protocol will be released in September 2012.

Scientific Certification Systems said it is now accredited to verify landfill gas offsets under the Climate Action Reserve protocol and the Verified Carbon Standard and is pursuing accreditation related to the verification of projects that destroy ozone-depleting substances and livestock methane.

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The Telecommunications Industry Association is developing standards for a new green rating of technology systems – the Sustainable Technology Environments Program. This standard, developed in cooperation with BICSI, CompTIA, InfoComm, and the Communications Cable & Connectivity Association, will bring sustainability to the process of planning, designing, integrating and operating technology systems, TIA said.

The Adhesive and Sealant Council has questioned the USGBC commitment to a consensus-based approach in development of the LEED rating system, and issued a statement urging the US General Services Administration to not recommend the system as a green certification standard for the federal government. This follows news last month that 20 trade groups are campaigning against GSA adoption of the proposed LEED v4 standards.

Focus on Energy, Wisconsin utilities’ statewide program for energy efficiency and renewable energy, achieved NSF certification to ISO 14001 for managing environmental impacts and corporate social responsibility. The program said it will commit to sustainability initiatives including waste minimization, recycling and green procurement practices.

Aakorn Management launched its ISO 14001 compliance tool, Environmental Management System, through EnviroSystemsOnline.com. The program produces auditable evidence for verification of operations at the ISO standard.

The Bulfinch Cos. earned LEED Gold certification for its new 201,000-square-foot office building in Cambridge, Mass. The six-story property is the world headquarters of Forrester Research and part of Cambridge Discovery Park, a 820,000-square-foot master-planned lab and office campus outside of Boston. The facility includes high-efficiency heating and cooling systems and superior indoor air quality systems, and 96 percent of construction waste was recycled, CoStar Realty said.

Asia Pulp & Paper announced that three of its mills earned SVLK certification, and are the first pulp and paper mills in Indonesia to achieve certification under the country’s new wood legality verification system.

Adecoagro’s sugar, ethanol and energy production cluster in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, was certified under the Bonsucro Sustainability Standard. The Bonsucro certification is designed to assure the social, environmental and economic sustainability of sugar, ethanol and energy production from sugarcane.

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Columbia University’s 17-acre Manhattanville campus in West Harlem earned LEED Platinum certification from its Neighborhood Development rating system. The project is the city’s first LEED ND certification and the first university campus in the nation to earn the award.

The Portsmouth Water System’s new Madbury water treatment plant in New Hampshire received LEED Silver certification. The $20 million plant replaces a 50-year-old facility at the same location, and is expected to produce energy savings exceeding 24 percent or $35,000 annually, writes the Foster’s Daily Democrat.

Newcastle United Football Club earned Carbon Trust Standard accreditation after sustainability measures cut the club’s utility bills by about £200,000 over three years.

Solar power systems infrastructure provider Unirac, Inc. is the first company to be certified under International Code Council Evaluation Service AC428, “Acceptance Criteria for Modular Framing Systems Used to Support Photovoltaic Modules.” AC428 defines requirements for solar infrastructure including testing to withstand varying weather conditions, meeting the manufacturer-specified lifespan, and showing compliance with other durability and safety requirements, the company said.

New Jersey electronics recycling company AnythingIT it is now e-Stewards and ISO 9001 certified. The company holds the two new certifications in addition to ISO 14001 and R2, Recycling Today reports.

E-waste certifier R2 Solutions relisted e-waste recycler Intercon Solutions Inc. in its membership directory after two successful audits from accredited certification bodies. The organization voted to delist the company in 2011 based on accusations from BAN that Intercon was improperly sending hazardous waste overseas. Intercon sued BAN over the allegations. Events management company The Arena Group has been certified with ISO 14001 and BS 8901 – the British events industry sustainability standard, which reviews economic activity, environmental responsibility and social progress. AJA registrars provided external and formal certification for both certificates. Luminous Power Technologies earned ISO 50001 – the first for any production facility in the battery industry – from BSI Management Systems, for its batteries with flat and tubular plates for domestic and industrial requirements. German PV system and service provider IBC Solar AG has received ISO 9001 for quality management, ISO 14001 for environmental management, and OHSAS 18001 for occupational health and safety, audited by

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TÜV Rheinland. The company has already received design and safety certifications IEC 61215 and IEC 61730 for its products. The Songdo International Business District in Incheon, South Korea, achieved 13.7 million square feet of LEED-certified space. The 1,500 acre development zone includes nine projects such as a residential tower, Korea’s first LEED-certified school, and the country’s first LEED-certified hotel, the Sheraton Incheon. The 1,235-room Hilton Los Angeles Airport and Towers received Green Seal’s Bronze certification under the GS-33 standard for lodging properties. The Hilton LAX is part of the Gateway to L.A. business improvement district, which has five major Green Seal-certified hotel properties. National Office Furniture said its casegoods and tables manufacturing facility in Santa Claus, Ind., was awarded LEED EB: O&M Silver to become the manufacturer’s seventh facility to earn a LEED green building rating. Aspects of facility upgrade included the use of 82 percent recycled content in furniture components, diversion of 90 percent of construction waste from the renovation project, increased recycling areas at workstations and shared areas, and a green cleaning policy. Home products retailer Fixtures Living earned LEED Silver certification for its 25,000-sq.-ft. Costa Mesa, Calif., showroom. The features of the store include a 30 percent reduction in water use and a 30 percent increase in ventilation, and the store was constructed with materials that reduce emissions and energy consumption.

Environmental & Energy Software

UK grocery giant Tesco will use iVeridis’ matchmaking software to help it find suppliers for energy-efficiency projects, helping the company reach its goal of being zero carbon by 2050.

Pension company Suffolk Life reduced its power consumption 37 percent in four weeks, and expects to save £30,000 ($57,250) annually, after adopting IBM’s Smarter Computing approach to its IT systems.

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CA Technologies announced CA ecoGovernance 3.0, an offering in the CA ecoSoftware suite that is designed to enable organizations to accelerate energy and sustainability business performance with automated data management, analysis and reporting.

Corporate Reports

Oil and gas company Hess Corporation’s fresh water use jumped 27 percent last year to 13 million cubic meters, primarily due to higher use in its North Dakota operations and in its gas processing and refining operations, according to the company’s 2011 sustainability report.

Global real estate services company CBRE increased electricity use in its worldwide operations by 6 percent last year, from 60,642 to 64,284 MWh, according to its 2011 corporate responsibility report.

Monsanto, the St. Louis-based agribusiness and crop biotech company, reduced direct greenhouse gas emissions 2.5 percent and fresh water consumption 2.1 percent compared to 2010 levels, according to the company’s 2011 corporate social responsibility and sustainability report.

IBM saved $43 million in energy expenses last year, conserving 378,000 MWh of electricity and 326,000 million BTUs of fuel oil and natural gas through hundreds of conservation projects, according to the company’s 2011 corporate responsibility report.

Policy & Enforcement

Hyundai faces a class-action lawsuit from Consumer Watchdog in California, which seeks damages for owners of 2011 and 2012 Elantra models. The suit is related to Hyundai’s alleged use of gas mileage numbers in advertising without government-mandated disclosures, which the auto maker denies, writes AutoblogGreen.

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Royal Dutch Shell’s Canadian carbon-capture and storage project has been approved in Alberta, if the company can agree to 23 conditions – mostly related to data collection, analysis and reporting – outlined by Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board.

The European Commission put forward proposals to implement new CO2 emissions reduction targets from new cars and light commercial vehicles by 2020. The proposals will cut average emissions from new cars to 95 grams of CO2 per km (g CO2/km) in 2020 from 135.7g in 2011 and a mandatory target of 130g in 2015.

The House of Representatives passed the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act, which directs the FERC to study the feasibility of a streamlined two-year permitting process for small hydropower and conduit projects. The bill, which moves on to the Senate, intends to help the development of hydropower at existing manmade structures, such as canals, writes Tacoma’s News Tribune.

The House approved a bill that would give federal agencies 30 months to make decisions related to mining permits, and limit the time that groups may challenge the permits in courts, to 60 days after a permit is issued. The bill also proposes that the mining projects should not be subject to National Environmental Policy Act standards, if existing agency guidelines or state guidelines account for environmental protections, The Hill said.

OSHA and BP Products North America resolved 409 of the 439 citations issued by the agency in 2009 for willful violations of OSHA’s process safety management standard at BP’s refinery in Texas City, Texas. Under the agreement, BP will pay $13,027,000 in penalties.

A Texas District Court judge ruled that the atmosphere and air must be protected for public use, as water is protected, a ruling that could help arguments for climate change lawsuits designed to force emissions reductions in a number of states. The Texas lawsuit, argued by the Texas Environmental Law Center, is part of a multistate campaign from nonprofit Our Children’s Trust, the Washington Post said.

A DOE efficiency rule that effectively rules out the sale of T12 fluorescents took effect. The rule, found in the Code of Federal Regulations Title 10, Part 430, doesn’t explicitly ban T12-size fluorescents, but no commercially available T12 lamps meet the efficacy required. More on the phase-out can be found in EL Insights, issue 34.

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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality announced $18 million in grants for businesses and entities to replace older medium-duty or heavy-duty gasoline or diesel vehicles with natural gas vehicles or repower the vehicles with natural gas engines.

Officials from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas testified before the state Senate Committee on Business and Commerce saying there should be enough power generation to meet summer demand, but reserve margins will shrink in the next few years, leaving questions about power supply at peak times after 2014.

The European Commission said during talks with the International Civil Aviation Organization that the EU remains committed to a global plan to manage carbon emissions from airlines, which could supersede its ETS requirement. The EU would stop including all aircraft in its ETS either in the event of an ICAO alternative, or if other nations agreed on a global scheme to curb emissions from the sector.

Consolidated Tire Recyclers Inc., operators of a tribal-owned tire recycling plant located on Cabazon Band of Mission Indians’ land, have not yet complied with an EPA order from May 2011, the agency said. The company failed to properly move about 160,000 tires stored along the site’s perimeter fences and buildings, or to demonstrate that the facility’s fire prevention system could handle all the tires stored there, The Desert Sun writes.

Environmental groups – including Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Audubon Society –filed a lawsuit in federal court in Anchorage to challenge the Interior Department’s approval of Shell’s Arctic spill response plans. The suit comes as Shell continues with plans to drill in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas over the next two years, the New York Times said.

The EPA reached a $14.6 million settlement with four companies for the construction of a groundwater treatment system at the Montrose and Del Amo Superfund sites in Torrance, Calif., where groundwater was contaminated by chemicals used to manufacture DDT and synthetic rubber over three decades. The four companies are: Montrose, Bayer CropScience, News Publishing Australia Limited, and Stauffer Management Company.

The UK government outlined plans to streamline processes for water companies in England and Wales to merge, for new suppliers to enter the market, and for businesses to switch suppliers. The draft bill to reform the water industry could save £2 billion ($3 billion) over the next 30 years, the government said.

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Twelve factories producing for the metals, chemicals and recycled paper sectors in eastern China were closed pending investigations after 16 children living near the facilities tested for high levels of lead in their blood. The Jian city government made the closures after community protests, but said there was no evidence to show lead leaching from the industrial park.

Poland applied for €33 ($40.5) million of free EU ETS carbon allowances for a planned coal plant site, near the Ukrainian border, but there is no visible evidence that any construction work has begun at the greenfield site, EurActiv said. Under EU rules, power plants can be exempt from the ETS until 2020 only if their investment process was physically initiated before December 31, 2008.

Krysztof Bolesta, the advisor to Poland’s environment minister, Martin Korolec, told EurActiv that Warsaw would continue to veto any solely European 2050 targets because they need a policy that protects industry. Poland produces 95 percent of its electricity from coal.

Japan’s new economic growth strategy includes plans to create a 50 trillion yen ($628 billion) green energy market by 2020. The draft proposal calls for deregulation and subsidies to promote development of renewable energy and low-emission cars, Reuters said.

The Las Brisas Energy Center project in Texas may be the first one impacted by the EPA’s March 2012 draft rules for New Source Performance Standards. The $3 billion project would burn refinery byproduct petroleum coke, which produces as much carbon dioxide as coal.

House Republicans floated legislation– the “No More Solyndras Act” – that would block the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program for green energy projects, for any applications received after the end of 2011. For existing applications, the bill would require that no guarantees be made until the Treasury Department reviews them and makes a recommendation to the Energy Department.

The Adams Land and Cattle Company, a beef feedlot near Broken Bow, Neb., agreed to pay a $145,000 civil penalty related to alleged discharges of pollutants into Mud Creek, violations of Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits, the EPA said.

An internal audit of Nevada Geothermal Power, the recipient of a $98.5 million federal loan guarantee for its 49.5 MW Blue Mountain geothermal power project, brought into question the company’s solvency ahead of a July 24 shareholders meeting. The company has $98 million in net losses and cannot produce enough cash from current operations after debt-service payments.

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A US judge ordered JPMorgan Chase & Co to explain why the court should not force the bank to turn over 25 internal emails related to an investigation into whether the bank manipulated electricity markets in California and the Midwest. The order follows a petition filed by the FERC in federal court as part of an investigation into the bank’s power trading, Reuters said. CARB extended the small fleet registration deadline for the Tractor-Trailer Greenhouse Gas Regulation to September 1, 2012. The extension affects the reporting deadline for small fleets of 20 or fewer total trailers, and does not delay any compliance, installation, or reporting dates, or other CARB regulations, the board said. CARB approved $27 million for its Air Quality Improvement Program, which provides incentives for the purchase of advanced-technology passenger cars and heavy-duty trucks. The majority of those funds will go to the California Clean Vehicle Rebate Project to provide incentives for the purchase of zero-emission and plug-in hybrid passenger cars. The New Zealand government delayed parts of its emissions trading scheme for farmers, who will not have to buy carbon credits until at least 2015. Also, the two-for-one carbon credit scheme for emitters will remain in place instead of ending this year, the New Zealand Herald said. The British government approved two large offshore wind farms off the Norfolk coast: the 580 MW Race Banks being developed by utility Centrica, and the 560 MW Dudgeon project proposed by developer Warwick Energy. The combined investment is estimated at £3 billion ($4.7 billion), Reuters said. North Carolina lawmakers voted to ignore studies showing a rapid rise in sea levels, and to require that projected rates of sea level rise be calculated on historical trends rather than on an accelerated rates of increase. The legislation, which the governor may sign, veto, or allow to become law without a signature, had the support of a coastal economic development group called NC-20, Reuters said. A bill in Massachusetts would require large retail establishments to dispense compostable plastic bags. The bill approved by a joint House and Senate committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture,would apply to retail locations that have 4,000 square feet or more or at least three locations within the state; pharmacies with at least five locations; and supermarkets with annual gross sales over $1 million, Waste & Recycling News said.

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Focus on Energy, Wisconsin utilities’ statewide program for energy efficiency and renewable energy, announced new incentive programs for residents and businesses. Programs for businesses include incentives for the installation of renewable energy systems, a retro-commissioning program for operational efficiency projects in existing buildings, and an energy efficiency financing plan for eligible small businesses. The Michigan Energy Michigan Jobs group submitted a proposal with nearly 530,000 signatures to put on the November ballot a proposal to amend the state constitution and require Michigan electric utilities to derive at least 25 percent of their energy from clean renewable sources by 2025. The state required 322,609 valid signatures in order for a proposal to appear on the ballot. The EPA and DOJ have reached a Clean Air Act settlement with Dairyland Power Cooperative under which the utility will invest $150 million in pollution control technology at three power plants in Alma and Genoa, Wis. The settlement also requires that DPC spend $5 million on environmental mitigation projects and pay a civil penalty of $950,000. World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, Climate Action Network and other NGOs have called sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) the “most potent greenhouse gas known to humankind” and are calling for the European Commission to ban some of its uses. The UK committee on climate change said that less than one percent of the nation’s seven percent reduction in GHG emissions in 2001 was related to proactive low carbon measures, and that mild weather, high fuel prices and tight budgeting contributed to the emissions decrease. In order to meet targets, the country must cut emissions four times faster than the current rate, Platts reports. The British Columbia auditor-general will conduct a review of the provincial government’s carbon offsets system in order to verify whether the public sector is carbon neutral. Carbon offsets in British Columbia are only credible if a GHG reduction project would not have gone ahead without funding from the province, the Vancouver Sun said. North Carolina’s governor Beverly Perdue vetoed legislation that would end the state’s ban on hydraulic fracturing, saying that the measure approved in June did not offer adequate environmental protections. The California and Quebec cap-and-trade carbon programs may have their first common auction in early 2013 after CARB delayed the vote on linkage rules, Quebec’s sustainable development minister Pierre Arcand said. The CARB delay is related to a new law that requires the governor’s approval stamp on such an agreement.

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Vermont’s law to implement mandatory recycling and composting of food and organic waste by 2020 went into effect; during the phase-in period, waste haulers must collect yard waste as well as food waste, and recycling containers must equal the number of waste bins in public facilities, Waste 360 said. A new bipartisan bill could add up to annual energy savings of $47 billion. The Expanding Industrial Energy and Water Efficiency Incentives Act of 2012 from Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) aims to create tax incentives for water reuse, advanced motors that connect with the smart grid, chillers, and highly efficient thermal biomass, and also expand incentives for CHP systems. The EPA reached an agreement with BASF Corp. regarding alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at the company’s Wyandotte, Mich., chemical manufacturing facility. BASF agreed to pay a $788,048 penalty and spend at least $250,000 on an environmental project to retrofit or replace municipal diesel engines in Wayne County with certified clean-diesel technologies. The National Ocean Industries Association issued a statement about the Obama administration’s proposed final 2012-2017 outer continental shelf leasing plan. The group said the plan is not in step with the energy policies of other nations, and that important areas, such as lease sales in areas of offshore Virginia, were omitted.

Fleets & Transportation

Zero-emission trucks could enter demonstration mode in the next few years and eventually be part of a zero-emission corridor along a congested section of Interstate 710 leaving the Port of Los Angeles, according to a study by Calstart, an independent California-based organization working to commercialize clean transportation technology.

Automakers including General Motors, Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen and Ford are partnering to share technologies like alternative fuels, electric vehicles and advanced composites in response to “megatrends” including sustainability, urbanization and a materials revolution, according to a Lux Research study.

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Sales of light-duty natural gas vehicles including passenger cars, light-duty trucks and commercial vehicles will reach 3.2 million vehicles in 2019, with 25.4 million such vehicles on the road in that year, Pike Research forecasts. This represents a compound average annual growth rate of 6.2 percent between 2012 and 2019.

Finland’s Deltamarin signed a contract with China’s CSSC/Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard Co. for the design of B.Delta25 bulk carriers. Deltamarin says the fuel-efficient bulk carriers’ Energy Efficiency Design Index will be 23 percent less than the International Maritime Organization’s required EEDI for new ships.

Boeing and Virgin Australia finalized an order for 23 fuel-efficient 737 MAX airplanes with options for an additional four. The 737 MAX reduces fuel use by 13 percent over today’s most fuel-efficient single-aisle airplanes, according to Boeing.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance landed a five-year contract to provide Paris-based food company Danone with a 15,000-vehicle fleet. This is a first-of-its-kind deal for the 12-year-old alliance.

The General Motors Powertrain Engineering Center in Torino, Italy, harvested 300,000 kWh of energy from test benches – equipment that tests various measures of a running engine – within a year, and used it to power all of the facility’s computers, GM says.

Panasonic Corporation, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries unveiled a car carrier ship with a hybrid electric power supply system. The carrier is designed to achieve zero emissions while in harbor.

Green Building

After installing energy-efficient inverters and a free cooling system from IsoCool, UK fluoropolymer processor Fluorocarbon expects to reduce cooling costs by 67 percent. Energy security and environmental and livability concerns drive government policy on “green building” technologies, but cost and affordability determine how quickly and to what extent governments adopt these technologies, according to a report by Lux Research.

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NASA selected Geosyntec Consultants, Jacobs Engineering Group and Tetra Tech to provide architectural and engineering professional environmental remediation services at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) and other NASA locations. The combined maximum potential value for the three contracts is $91 million. Iceland’s Landsvirkjun signed a power purchase agreement with PCC BakkiSilicon, an Icelandic subsidiary of the Germany-based industry holding PCC SE, under which Landsvirkjun will provide renewable energy to power a metallurgical grade silicon metal production plant being built by PCC in Bakki near Husavik on Iceland’s north coast. EcoSmart energy management platform developer Telkonet announced that partner company EnTel will install EcoSmart in two hotels and one multi-tenant entertainment complex through its EnTeligence Solution. The EnTeligence Solution, a complete utility management program, reduces HVAC costs with EcoSmart energy management technology and reduces water, sewer and natural gas costs.

Packaging and Paper

Print and paper trade group Two Sides has convinced UK companies British Telecom, Barclaycard, Vodafone and EON Energy, among others, to withdraw their environmental claims about print and paper.

Weyerhaeuser Company announced its preference for purchasing wood certified under the American Tree Farm System, an independent certification designed for US family forest landowners and recognized by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. The company will maintain a priority market for material from certified ATFS farms, declare its support for the system in its wood procurement policy, track its use of the wood, and include the certification as an attribute when using its vendor management plan.

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Executive Moves

Carbon Disclosure Project appointed Marc Fox director of investor engagement in North America. Marc joins the not-for-profit organization from Goldman Sachs, where he spent seven years as a research analyst. He will work on CDP’s investor engagement strategy in the US and Canada. Former EPA Assistant Administrator Steve Owens is the newest member of Procter & Gamble’s US Sustainability Expert Advisory Panel, tasked with evaluating P&G’s sustainability initiatives, among other duties. Owens served as the EPA’s assistant administrator in charge of its Office of Chemical Safety & Pollution Prevention from 2009 until November 30, 2011, before going into private law practice with the Squire Sanders law firm. Enova Systems’ CEO Michael Staran and COO John Mullins resigned from the company and its board of directors. Christopher Thunen was appointed to the board of directors to fill one of the vacancies. The struggling company also reports 80 percent of its workforce has left the company because of continued delays in industry adoption of EV technology. Dr. Timothy Swales, vice president of corporate research and development, assumed the additional role of chief sustainability officer at the building materials company Johns Manville. Swales’ previous roles within JM include research and development director, and director, innovation and commercialization for the engineered products business. American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy appointed Naomi Baum chief operating officer and hired Ethan Rogers as senior manager to run the organization’s research program on industrial energy efficiency. Rogers comes to ACEEE from the Purdue University Technical Assistance Program in Indiana. CEO Roland Sundén is leaving LM Wind Power after six years with the wind turbine blade manufacturer. Tim Robson, a non-executive director, will act as interim CEO. Acciona, the Spanish renewable energy infrastructure and water-services provider, appointed Robert M. Park president of Acciona Canada, a new, non-executive role intended to grow the company’s core business in the country. Park served as president of Acciona’s infrastructure division in Canada since 2007. Acciona also moved engineer Purificación Torreblanca from Spain to Canada to lead the company’s infrastructure team.

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David Asplund resigned as Lime Energy chairman of the board and will be taking an indefinite leave of absence from his position as executive chairman of the renewable energy company for health reasons. Richard Kiphart was elected to serve as chairman of the board. Smith Electric Vehicles appointed Robin Mackie president and John F. Smith to its board of directors. Mackie is a founder and director of Smith US and has served as Smith’s chief technology officer and a member of the board of directors since January 2009. John F. Smith spent 42 years with General Motors, leading the turnarounds of Allison Transmission and Cadillac Motor Car. BrightSource Energy named Mathew Brett senior VP of international development. Prior to joining BrightSource Energy, Brett co-founded and served as the European CEO of Advanced Power AG, a developer of gas-fired power plants. Lighting Science Group Corporation appointed Steve Marton as its interim Chief Executive Officer following the resignation of CEO and Chairman James Haworth. Marton has served as a senior operating partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors since 2008 and has worked with Lighting Science Group’s operations in a consulting capacity since February 2012. ASHRAE installed new officers and directors for 2012-13 including president Thomas E. Watson, chief engineer at McQuay International. Other officers installed for a one-year term are: President-Elect William “Bill” P. Bahnfleth, Ph.D., professor at Pennsylvania State University;; Treasurer: Thomas “Tom” H. Phoenix, principal and vice president, Moser Mayer Phoenix Associates; Vice President Constantinos A. Balaras, Ph.D., research director at the Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development at the National Observatory of Athens in Greece; Vice President Daniel C. Pettway, sales representative, Hobbs and Associates; Vice President Timothy G. Wentz, associate professor at University of Nebraska – Lincoln; and Vice President Thomas E. Werkema, senior consultant, Arkema Inc. Advantix Systems named Dion C. Joannou as chief executive officer. Joannou currently sits on the boards of Dialogic and GoNet Systems, two technology solutions providers, and has also served in various roles at Nortel Networks for 14 years. Skipping Stone named Jim McHugh, formerly of IBM and Schneider Electric, as a principal in Skipping Stone’s Atlanta office. At IBM McHugh led business development efforts for IT managed services and industry specific solutions for large energy and utility accounts in the eastern US.

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Water Management

Envision Charlotte, a public-private partnership that aims to reduce energy consumption 20 percent in the city’s uptown business district by 2016, added a water measurement and efficiency component. Smart Water Now, which will be managed by CH2M Hill, seeks to reduce water use 20 percent over the same time frame.

The Coca-Cola Company developed a beverage process water recovery system, piloted at facilities in India and Mexico, that can reduce a manufacturing plant’s water use by up to 35 percent. The recovery system reuses water for selected beverage operations, such as clean-in-place and bottle washing, rather than treating and discharging it, the company said.

A successful pilot study has shown GE’s water treatment technology can help beverage companies safely treat and reuse water to achieve 99 percent or higher recovery in their plants, the company says.

Wastewater recycler Aquatech was awarded a contract for the design, engineering, supply and installation supervision of a concentrated brine treatment plant at the Chinacoal Tuke Fertilizer Project in China.

General Electric and Singapore-based Memsys Clearwater agreed to jointly develop membrane distillation technology for the unconventional resources market, including shale gas, coal seam gas and other unconventional fuels recovered by hydraulic fracturing. GE will invest in testing the technology, and in return will receive an exclusive license for its use in these applications.

Waste & Recycling

Duracell, Energizer, Panasonic and Rayovac – the four largest battery brands in the US – are seeking a business partner to manage a proposed nationwide collection and recycling program for household batteries, scheduled to launch next year.

Green Energy Renewable Solutions signed a long-term contract with Disposal Specialties of Birmingham, Mich., that will guarantee up to 1,000 tons per day of construction and demolition waste for recycling

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operations at its Highland Park, Michigan facility. Green Energy expects a recovery rate of about 85 percent of incoming waste for recycling purposes.

E-waste recycling company Intercon Solutions filed a defamation suit against watchdog group Basel Action Network and its executive director James Puckett, alleging that BAN visited the company’s facility under the guise of performing an audit for Intercon’s pending e-Stewards certification, but was really there to collect evidence as part of its ongoing surveillance campaign.

Renewable Energy

GM Holden selected Better Place as its preferred partner for renewable energy and faster charging solutions for the long-range Holden Volt electric car, which goes on sale in Australia later this year.

The Hertz Corporation completed a 229 kW solar system at its global headquarters building in Park Ridge, NJ, and announced plans to build 11 additional installations totaling 2.2 MW.

A 1,316-solar panel system, which was supported by a $1.8 million grant from renewable energy stimulus funds, was recently installed at the southern wastewater treatment plant in Weslaco, Texas. The solar panels will absorb enough energy to power the plant and feed extra into the electric grid, which amounts to about $75,000 in savings per year.

General Electric suspended construction of a 400 MW thin-film solar panel factory in Colorado for at least 18 months in response to market conditions within the solar manufacturing industry.

IKEA installed two solar systems at stores in Houston and Canton, Michigan, which together will prevent the equivalent of 1,564 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. The 122,000-square-foot installation in Canton is a 977.6 kW system that will produce about 1,114,943 kWh of electricity each year.

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Trina Solar installed a 29 kW PV array that will help power the Lotus Formula 1 team’s headquarters located near Oxford, UK. The rooftop array, which consists of 128 panels, provides about 75 percent of the power for a racetrack simulator at the Lotus facility.

Solar developer 8minutenergy Renewables signed a Generation Interconnection Agreement with the California Independent Systems Operator Corporation and San Diego Gas & Electric for 200 MW of utility-scale solar PV power from its project in Imperial Valley, Calif.

The New York Power Authority approved more than $25 million in contracts to several New York firms including a $6.6 million multi-year contract to Northland Associates for the design and construction of a large-scale distributed windpower system at the State University of New York at Canton.

Renewable electricity generation should grow by 1,840 TWh between 2011 and 2017, almost 60 percent above the growth reported between 2005 and 2011 – and a 40 percent increase over current levels, according to a study by the International Energy Agency. The US Postal Service built its second green roof, a 11,300-square-foot installation in upstate New York. The roof was built in collaboration with Onondaga County, N.Y., as part of the municipality’s Save the Rain initiative.

Corporate Sustainability

The International Integrated Reporting Council released a draft outline of an integrated reporting framework in an effort to establish a basic structure that will be globally accepted as the corporate reporting norm.

London’s city government called on the International Olympic Committee to reconsider its sponsorship contract with Dow Chemical, saying the deal has tarnished the games’ reputation.

Apple has withdrawn all of its 39 certified desktop computers, monitors and laptops from the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) registry – a leading sustainability listing for computer manufacturers – and will no longer submit its products to EPEAT for environmental rating, according to the

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electronics standard setting group. San Francisco’s city government says it will no longer buy Apple desktops, laptops or monitors, following Apple’s decision.

Kraft Foods will eliminate gestation crates from Oscar Mayer’s pork supply chain by 2022. The Humane Society of the United States described the new policy’s phase-in period as “lengthy,” but said that it applauds Kraft Foods’ decision to help improve conditions for its pigs.

GE’s Ecomagination line of products and services generated $21 billion in revenues and invested more than $2 billion in research and development last year, according to the program’s 2011 progress report.

EQT Corporation launched a pilot program to begin converting shale gas drilling rigs from diesel to liquefied natural gas, which emits between 20 percent and 30 percent less carbon dioxide with only a fraction of the emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and particulates. The LNG rig conversion is operating in West Virginia. EQT hopes to convert additional rigs in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Global economic uncertainty has not affected overall average salaries in the corporate responsibility and sustainability professions, which continue their rising trend, according to an industry report conducted by specialist recruitment firm Acre, management consultants Acona, communications agency Flag and Ethical Performance, a subscription-based monthly newsletter for senior executives.

Rankings

Americans rank last compared to the rest of the world in sustainable behavior – as they have every year – and don’t feel guilty about this, according to a National Geographic survey.

The United Kingdom is first for energy efficiency – followed closely by Germany, Italy, Japan and France – in a ranking of the world’s major economies from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The US, ranked ninth by the ACEEE out of the 12 economies, has made “limited or little progress toward greater efficiency at the national level,” according to the report.

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Greenpeace adjusted Apple’s grade in three of four categories, reflecting the company’s public commitments to clean energy in its cloud computing facilities, but still gave it low scores for its energy choices when compared with sector leaders. The evaluation ranks industry leaders in cloud computing.

Timberland, Marks & Spencer, software company Credit 360, Coca-Cola Enterprises CEO John Brock and Life Technologies Corporation’s chief sustainability officer Cristina Amorim are among the Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Forum awards winners for 2012.

Sprint Nextel’s phone buyback program is the top-ranked out of major US carriers, beating those from Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and US Cellular in overall ranking, according to a report by Compass Intelligence.

Black lung, a disease that scars coal miners’ lungs, making it difficult to breathe, has seen a resurgence since the 1990s with diagnoses doubling over the past decade, according to a joint investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, NPR and The Charleston Gazette.