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APP to Suspend Natural Forest Clearance
Environmental Management & Energy News16 May 2012 | 7:20 amAsia Pulp & Paper is suspending natural forest clearance on its own pulpwood plantations in Indonesia, effective June 1, as part of a new commitment to international standards on High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF). APP, which is the world’s third largest paper supplier, will ask its independent suppliers to abide by the new principles – [...] -
Leveraging Manufacturing, Part 2
Green Manufacturing27 Apr 2012 | 11:46 pmSome details on processingThe last posting began to dig into the leveraging discussion and started to elaborate on this topic using an example. The example was from a recent paper from our research group at Berkeley and focussed on an important aspect of vehicles and transportation - the gear train.The efficiency of gear systems was described as deriving from a variety of factors including the surface roughness of the mating surfaces. Other studies have shown an even greater dependence on the surface roughness of the mating surfaces for hypoid gear pairs, which are found in…
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Data spurs competition for high-performance buildings
16 May 2012 | 8:00 amHonestBuildings.com hopes to jumpstart the commercial-real-estate market by connecting building owners and service providers via data and Web-based tools. -
What is the media's 'brainprint' for sustainability?
16 May 2012 | 6:00 amThe Global Reporting Initiative has recently come out with comprehensive guidelines on sustainability in the media industry, but will major media companies adopt key measures? -
Why curbing agriculture's climate impacts is a growing challenge
16 May 2012 | 4:30 amSo much uncertainty surrounding how to report agricultural emissions hinders measurement and reduction efforts in the sector, spurring the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to develop industrywide best practices. -
How to defeat the massive plug-load monster
16 May 2012 | 4:00 amThe plug-load threat is emerging like a monster against building energy-efficiency efforts. Here are some easy-to-implement, cost-effective ways to tame loads. -
Sustainability through software: Q&A with SAP's Peter Graf
15 May 2012 | 3:40 pmIn advance of SAP's largest user conference this week, Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf spoke with GreenBiz about decoupling emissions from revenue growth, employee engagement and what's next.
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Environmental Management & Energy News
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APP to Suspend Natural Forest Clearance
16 May 2012 | 7:20 amAsia Pulp & Paper is suspending natural forest clearance on its own pulpwood plantations in Indonesia, effective June 1, as part of a new commitment to international standards on High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF). APP, which is the world’s third largest paper supplier, will ask its independent suppliers to abide by the new principles – [...] -
Ericsson Sustainability Report: Direct Carbon Intensity Drops 6%
16 May 2012 | 7:10 amDirect emissions from telecommunications firm Ericsson’s in-house activities totaled around 0.84 Mtonnes during 2011. This corresponds to a six percent reduction in direct emissions intensity from Ericsson’s activities year-on-year, according to the company’s 2011 sustainability report. Last year, the CO2 emissions associated with the lifetime operation of Ericsson products in operation totaled approximately 24 Mtonnes. [...] -
Steel Plants Could Provide 20 MW of ‘Green’ Thermal Energy
16 May 2012 | 7:05 amSteel plants located just outside Sheffield’s city center could be connected to the UK city’s existing district heating network (pictured) to provide an extra 20 MW of thermal energy, Phys.org reports. Steel companies actually spend money to cool flue gas and the water used during manufacturing, so heat recovery helps them to save money while [...] -
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Google Wind Line, EU Aviation, Superfund Settlement
16 May 2012 | 7:00 amHere’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 10 items. The $5 billion, Google-backed offshore wind energy transmission line proposed for the mid-Atlantic U.S. will advance to an environmental review stage after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management found that there is no competitive interest. After [...] -
NREL Model Improves Predictions of Shade Effects on Solar PV
16 May 2012 | 6:55 amUsing microinverters instead of typical string inverters can improve solar panels’ performance in shade by more than 12 percent, according to a new National Renewable Energy Laboratory test procedure, which the lab says greatly improves the accuracy of predictions about shade effects. Shade hinders photovoltaic performance, which is why solar installers consider it in PV [...]
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Leveraging Manufacturing, Part 2
27 Apr 2012 | 11:46 pmSome details on processingThe last posting began to dig into the leveraging discussion and started to elaborate on this topic using an example. The example was from a recent paper from our research group at Berkeley and focussed on an important aspect of vehicles and transportation - the gear train.The efficiency of gear systems was described as deriving from a variety of factors including the surface roughness of the mating surfaces. Other studies have shown an even greater dependence on the surface roughness of the mating surfaces for hypoid gear pairs, which are found in… -
Leveraging Manufacturing, Part 1
3 Apr 2012 | 9:08 pmFirst, some backgroundWhere did March go?!We finished a long set of postings on the power of the digital age in the form of software to connect the designer to the process with an eye to achieving all the normal requirements of a product but, in addition, incorporating measures to drive sustainable product design and green manufacturing. There is certainly more that can be said about that.But, not now.I'd like to get back to a subject that was mentioned first about one and a half years ago in an earlier posting - leveraging.This was a follow on to a discussion centering on the "buy to fly"… -
Tools of the trade, Part 6
27 Feb 2012 | 11:13 pmLast Comments on SoftwareIn the last posting I posed the question "suppose you want to take some action - either at the design end or the manufacturing end. What tools can you rely on after you've done the background work and now want to move on to execution?"The simple answer I gave was "This is where software tools come in." I then proceeded to go into details about some interesting software tools that aid the designer, or manufacturer, in decision making about green and sustainable actions to take.Shortly after that posting, I was invited to participate in a live (and simultaneously… -
Tools of the trade, Part 5
6 Feb 2012 | 11:13 pmSoftware to the rescueIn part 4 of this series (Back in December … it has been a busy start to the year!) I introduced the idea of the "design to production pipeline." This was to illustrate the design to manufacturing continuum and show a strategy whereby the designer, looking into the pipeline from the design perspective, could see the follow-on steps and requirements for successful production. Although the process is rarely actually serial, it is clear that some things come first, like design, and others come later, like actual production. These days there is (or should be) a lot… -
Green Pot? Not!
3 Jan 2012 | 7:42 pmChoice Items for the New YearI've hit the pause button on the "Tools of the Trade" postings for the moment and, on the occasion of New Year, have included here a few items that seem a propos to green manufacturing - broadly interpreted- under the headlines 'green or not'? I know it sounds a bit like a Dr. Seuss book title - but read on!The first one is thanks to Ralph Resnick and Corey Kovalcik of NCDMM. It is a reference to a posting in the New York Times on the carbon footprint and environmental footprint of pot growing! I think they assumed that since I am at Berkeley with all those…
