A backup power failure at a wastewater facility can lead to immediate and severe consequences. Pumps stop, tanks overflow, leaving contaminants easy access to our waterways. What started as a brief outage, then turns into a major public health and environmental emergency.
While “going green” has been viewed as a reasonably sound business practice for years, since the January 1, 2016 release of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it’s become clear that the focus on corporate sustainability has increased dramatically. Coincidentally, this shift is also underway as new levels of automation and information technology (IT) integration influence business capital spending.
Propex GeoSolutions recently became the first High Performance Turf Reinforcement Mat (HPTRM) manufacturer to verify the carbon footprint of its erosion control solutions.
ON Semiconductor has found a way to increase packing density, in order to decrease the volumetric weight with our tape and reel packing process. Tape and reel involve several surface mounted devices (SMDs) being placed on tape and wound on a reel for easy transportation.
Electrify America’s continued collaboration with Walmart is expected to make the retailer one of the largest retail hosts of electric vehicle charging stations across the United States, and reinforces Walmart’s broader mission to spark collective action – alongside key partners – to drive environmental sustainability and provide customers access to sustainable options.
Nutrient pollution and the resulting excess of nutrients in waterbodies continues to plague aquatic environments around the world, threatening waterways, fish and plant life — and even public health.
There are an estimated 240,000 water main breaks every year in the United States, and those ruptures waste between 14 percent and 18 percent of the nation’s drinking water.
When it comes to understanding how water utilities approach asset maintenance, survey data shows that, on average, they tend to weight their efforts more heavily toward preventive maintenance.
European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer editor Reece Armstrong sits down with Jeffrey Whitford, head of global corporate responsibility and branding and Fabien Thibault, global manager of product and packaging sustainability at the life science business of Merck KGaA* to discuss the company’s new approach to environmental sustainability in packaging.
Taking a page from the termite construction manual,Team Phalanx from the Industrial Design program at California State University, Long Beach has developed an insulation that could revolutionize how homes and offices are cooled.
AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
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In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
