Environmental Resources

TORONTO, ON - EECO 2005 continues to add headline speakers to what is becoming the must attend conference of the spring in the Great Lakes Region. Toronto's mayor David Miller and Chicago's mayor Richard Daley are the latest high-level decision makers to add their nam...

HARRISBURG, PA - Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty today awarded a $138,531 Growing Greener grant to the Rodale Institute to develop advanced soil management methods that lock up nutrients before they pollute local waterways.

PITTSBURGH - Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced it has released its 2004 Sustainability Report, a detailed review of the company's global environmental, social and economic performance. The report is available online at

Kendall Wilson, AIA, IIDA, LEED AP, a principal and founder of Washington, DC-based Envision Design, has been recognized as "2005 Designer of the Year" by Contract magazine. Wilson is only the second designer from the Washington metropolitan area to win the award in t...

LOS ANGELES - ED&F Man, the world's leading merchant of cocoa, sugar and coffee, has formed Corigins (www.corigins.com), a new US-based supplier of the highest quality, traceable ingredients to the rapidly expa...

ATLANTA - At the NAHB Green Building Conference at Atlanta, Owens Corning today announced that its line of fiber glass insulation products has been certified to contain an average of 35 percent recycled content by leading third-party certifier Scientific Certification...

CAMBRIDGE, MA - EcoLogic Finance today announced it has been selected to receive a 2005 Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship in the amount of $465,000.

Based in Cambridge, MA, EcoLogic Finance's mission is to provide...

Since joining ENERGY STAR in 2001, The Vanguard Group has reduced its electrical energy consumption by 12 million kilowatt hours at a cumulative savings of $1.2 million. Vanguard lowered its energy costs per square foot by 18 percent with limited capital expenditures...

LAKE SUCCESS, NEW YORK - Canon U.S.A., Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), has been named an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year -Manufacturer for outstanding contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by designing and promoting energy-efficient products...

Grand Rapids, MI - The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) International has created a set of guidelines to serve as a roadmap for any office furniture manufacturer or supplier desiring to become a more sustainable company. The Sustainabili...