National appliance standards cover products ranging from refrigerators to commercial air conditioners to electric motors. Most of today’s national standards started out at the state level. Even when state standards do not become national ones, adoption by just a few states can be enough to affect national markets. This report examines the opportunity for states to again take the lead in advancing appliance standards to save energy and water, lower utility bills for consumers and businesses, and reduce air pollutant emissions. We provide recommendations for state standards for 21 products and state-by-state estimates of potential savings.
Day: July 27, 2017
Key Takeaways from the NYC Food Waste Fair
Read the full story at Waste360.
More than 1,200 attendees and nearly 80 exhibitors gathered together at the NYC Food Waste Fair yesterday in Brooklyn, N.Y., to discuss the issue of food waste and share innovative and effective food waste reduction solutions.
At the event, attendees were able to participate in a number of workshops offered in three tracks: prevention, recovery and recycling. The prevention track workshops focused on managing food as you are using it so you can prevent waste from occurring, the recovery track workshops explained how you can save your unwanted food scraps to be sent to others in need and the recycling track workshops offered information about turning your food energy into healthy soil or energy.
In addition to the wide variety of workshops offered, the fair included four panel discussions and a sustainable cooking demonstration and discussion with well-known chefs.
New book: Headwinds of Opportunity: A Compass for Sustainable Innovation
My former colleague at ISTC, Tim Lindsey, has a new book out which may be of interest to ENB readers. Headwinds of Opportunity A Compass for Sustainable Innovation approaches sustainability as an innovation.
The book is informed by the principles of diffusion of innovation and includes case studies that show how companies can use these principles to increase their efficiency.
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