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Collins Pine Company, a model certified forestry operation, saved a million dollars after one year of integrating The Natural Step (TNS) framework into its strategic planning and operations. After educating employees on the principles of TNS, the company formed teams to address specific issues within the company’s operations such as energy, water, air, and recycling. One team’s idea – install equipment that incorporates sander dust into particle board instead of burning it – saves the company over $500,000 annually. Collins’ managers believe its Journey to Sustainability motivates employees and helps the company attract and retain high-caliber employees. [sorry this link is no longer available] FROM The Natural Step Newsletter
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New York City is a leader among municipalities that are incorporating green building practices into the construction process. The results of their efforts thus far are in High Performance Building Guidelines. Besides covering the usual topics – site design, energy, indoor environment, materials and products, water – it examines post-construction issues of construction administration, commissioning and operations/maintenance. Each chapter contains a series of “Performance Goals” and strategies for reaching the goals. It includes NYC’s green guidelines, and a high performance building workplan and sample. 144 pg., $25. City of New York Department of Design & Construction: [sorry this link is no longer available] You can also find High Performance Building Guidelines from Pennsylvania at the website in the previous article. FROM Environmental Building News
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It was a historic day on August 15 when India’s population hit one billion. Worldwatch Institute dubbed it the second member of the “billion club.” “In Balance”, the newsletter of the Center for a New American Dream notes that marketers are gearing up for an orgy. China and India has more “future consumers” (children under 15 years old) than the U.S. total population. Sometime around the middle of October, the world population will reach the six billion mark. The Center is hosting a listserv conversation this month on the links between population and consumption. Sign up at: [sorry this link is no longer available]
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If you are involved in an energy efficiency and renewable energy project, whether as business or individual world-wide, you are eligible to apply for this award. It will be presented in Austria, March 9-12, at World Sustainable Energy Day 2000 and at the “Energiesparmesse”, one of the largest European energy exhibitions (it attracted more than 200,000 visitors in past years). Winning projects will be awarded a prize of $10,000 EURO in each category and be promoted in a EU-wide media campaign. Deadline to submit: November 15. energy.globe@esv.or.at [sorry this link is no longer available]
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Early this month, Dow Jones and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) launched The Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index (DJSGI). According to a number of research studies, many reported here, environmentally and socially proactive companies outperform the market average. In a “backcasting” exercise looking at the past five years, the DJSGI outperformed conventional indices by 5.5 percent with an added risk of one percent. Now it (we) will get an empirical test. SAM, a Zurich-based firm, is focused on integrating corporate sustainability into financial services through sustainability assessment and advisory services. The company’s Sustainability Rating method was used to select the 200+ companies that comprise the index. The rating method puts companies through an annual review, equally weighting economic, social and environmental criteria. SAM draws on the expertise of many people in our field through, for example, the United Nations Environment Programme core reporting guidelines, SustainAbility standards for environmental reports, and SA8000 standards on the social side. Companies in the index represent a cross section of 73 industry groups in 33 countries. Three regional indexes cover Europe, America and Asia-Pacific; a separate index covers U.S. companies. All companies are automatically screened for alcohol, gambling, and/or tobacco. It’s not a surprise that European […]
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A free video that documents the green design and construction process for Pennsylvania’s new 73,000 square foot Department of Environmental Protection building may be useful if you are exploring the idea for your own construction project or for use as a professional tool to educate potential clients. Pennsylvania plans to replicate the integrated planning and design process used here as a model for future state buildings. The video chronicles the construction process from brownfield remediation to installation of access floors and carpet tiles. You’ll see interviews with industry leaders like Ray Anderson of Interface and Rick Fedrizzi of Carrier, as well as the manufacturing process of some green materials; PET soda bottles turned into work stations, for example. At $78/sf for hard construction costs, the building consumes half the energy of a comparable conventional building and saves $50,000 annually. Some of its green features are: – energy-efficient building envelope, including argon-filled, low-e windows – access floors used for conditional air supply – highly reflective ceiling tiles, light shelves for daylight penetration, high efficiency indirect lighting – gas-fired absorption chillers – removable carpet tiles – recycled-content workstation fabric and natural fiber upholstery fabric – occupancy-sensing power strips and controls – recycled-content […]
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Despite economic growth of almost four percent, U.S. CO2 emissions rose only .4 percent in 1998, the smallest increase since 1991. Since CO2 emissions equal about 84 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions they are a good indicator of total emissions. Increased summer electricity use was offset by a very warm winter, reducing fuel use (the irony of global warming). The transportation sector, which constitutes about a third of emissions, increased by 1.8 percent while industrial emissions declined by 1.2 percent. Utilities used higher emitting, cheap oil instead of natural gas resulting in 3.2 percent higher emissions. Energy Information Administration
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“In little more than a decade, New York has gone from almost no recycling of our solid waste to recycling nearly half of the solid waste produced in the state,” Governor Pataki said when he announced that NY State had achieved its goal of recycling 42 percent by 1997. Out of a total of 30 million tons of waste about 12.5 million tons were recycled in 1997. Since 1988, New York state and local governments have invested almost $150 million in waste reduction, recycling and household hazardous waste management projects. Source: Environment News Service
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EPA data analyzed by The Foundation for Clean Air Progress shows that 10 cities have reduced the number of high ozone days by 75 percent (Rochester, NY.) to 40.7 percent (Los Angeles, CA.) over the last decade. The average reduction is 54.3 percent. The other cities, in order, are: Buffalo, NY.; Milwaukee, WI.; San Diego, CA.; Boston, MA.; Sacramento, CA.; Detroit, MI.; Chicago, IL.; and Newark, NJ. [sorry this link is no longer available]
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