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Environmental Leader’s 15 Top Energy Management Stories of 2011
Environmental Leader has published a list of its most read energy management stories of 2011. Here are Environmental Leader’s top 15 energy management stories of 2011, based on reader interest: 15: Starbucks Misses Energy Consumption Goal, Succeeds on Renewables Starbucks missed a target to cut energy consumption at company-owned stores 25 percent by 2010, and [...]
ISO Sustainable Buildings Standards
Sustainable and environmentally friendly buildings are the leading edge in building design today. To achieve a high level of building sustainability in an efficient and effective manner requires the integration of the best management system standards available. Integrated management systems will ensure that we have the capacity to produce more sustainable buildings and ISO 26000 [...]
Solyndra Receives ISO Certification From TUV Rheinland
Solyndra Inc., a manufacturer of cylindrical solar photovoltaic systems for commercial and industrial rooftops, has earned ISO 9001:2008 certification, aninternationally recognized standard issued to organizations with aquality management system. The certificate was authorized by TUVRheinland. "To meet strong product demand, we are ramping our Fab 2 facility, and this certification recognizes the strength of theprocesses [...]
Cititec ISO Environmental Management
Cititec is an IT recruitmentsolutions company that has earned ISO 14001, one of the leadinginternational environmental management certification processes. Created by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO 14001 wasdeveloped by an international selection of business groups,environmental bodies and governments with the aim of facilitatingenvironmental improvement in the private sector. Companies implementingISO 14001 are independently a [...]
3 Types of ISO 14000 Environmental Labels and Declarations
CAN/CSA-ISO 14001 and CAN/CSA-ISO 14004 are thestandards for environmental management systems. The other documents inthe CAN/CSA-ISO 14000 Series are tools designed to assist businesseswith measuring and communicating their efforts to minimize theirenvironmental impacts. Documents in the CAN/CSA-ISO 14030 Seriesdeal with issues of environmental performance evaluation, indicators,and reporting. The same information is sometimes required forenvironmental reports [...]
ISO Principles for Environmental Labels and Claims
These principles are taken from CAN/CSA-ISO 14020, these principles are a prerequisite for all the other standards in the 14020Series. 1. Environmental labels and declarations shall beaccurate, verifiable, relevant, and not misleading. 2. Procedures and requirements for environmental labels and declarations shall not be prepared, adopted, or applied with a view to, or with the [...]
California ISO Releases Renewable Energy Web Tools
The California Independent System Operator Corp.(California ISO) has opened access to renewable power data viatwo Web-based tools – Today’s Wind and Renewables Watch – that makegreen energy production transparent on an hourly and daily basis. Today’s Wind provides an hour-by-hour chart showing the output of California’smajor wind resource areas. It breaks down wind’s contribution to [...]