Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

over 160 families within an energy efficient 300,000 sq. ft. facility. Solar Innovations prides on being a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), Gold Certified facility, 98.5% landfill free, and 85% off the grid through a 2,200 Solar Innovations panel roofing solution. During my phone interview with Solar Innovations, Inc., I asked, what does sustainability mean to Solar Innovations? President Greg Header says it is about making the least environmental impact on our environment, whether

Michael Harris Jr. Comparing Sustainable Operations The primary objective of this research paper is to compare two companies on their environmentally sustainable operations, which includes sustainable product design, sustainable processes, sustainable buildings (LEED), ISO 1400 certification, and sustainable supply chain management. In addition to sustainable operations, social responsibility initiative will be discussed for one or both of the companies. The two companies for this topic are Harris

INDUSTRY: HOSPITALITY COMPANY: LEMON TREE HOTELS AREA: CLIMATE ACTION SUBMITTED BY: RHYTHM MALHOTRA PRN: 15020841045 SECTION: A THE LEMON TREE HOTELS Fresh, spirited and youthful, The Lemon Tree Hotel Company (LTH) is India’s fastest growing chain of upscale, midscale and economy hotels. The group selected the ‘Lemon Tree Hotel’ chain because of their various initiatives implemented in terms of business

The 2015 Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index report ranks Frankfurt, Germany the #1 most sustainable city in the world. Published by Amsterdam-based Arcadis Design & Consultancy, the report states that its purpose is to explore “the three demands of People, Planet and Profit to develop an indicative ranking of 50 of the world 's leading cities.” It features no fewer than seven European cities in this year’s top ten — Frankfurt, London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin, and Madrid. By contrast

In recent years, environmental issues are being a fundamental topic around the world as the public have been aware of the risks to our planet because of the harmful human being, such as deforestation, over-consumption of energy, different kinds of pollution, over-construction, which are incurring serious climate change and global warming. The replacement on the Millenium Development Goals to 17 sustainable development goals also alerted people to concern about how to make a better environment in

designed to track and encourage improvement on key environmental sustainability measures in P&G’s supply chain. The goals for the scorecard initiative include: • Enhancing collaboration with our external business partners • Improving key environmental indicators • Encouraging the sharing of ideas and capabilities to deliver more sustainable products and services to our consumers Importantly, we will now measure year-on-year improvements in environmental sustainability of our external business partners

The Environmental Impacts of Eco-friendly Construction A considerable change which has occurred in the late 1990s around the world, is an increased number of regulations to minimize environmental damage. People, also have become more conscious of environmental protection and as a result there is increased demand for green architectural design which consists of eco-friendly construction. Eco friendly construction refers to building with a reduction of energy consumption, waste, pollution and degradation

2. Modern Standing Of Sustainability In the most countries the using of energy and emissions of CO2 are the biggest driver for the buildings. About 160 million building are in the EU are estimated for using more than 40% of the energy in Europe and push more than 40% of emissions carbon dioxide. The US Energy Information Administration pointed to the share of the energy and the emissions of the greenhouse gas (GHG) that connected with building it is bigger in US and the total emissions amount to

contributor to Australia’s gross domestic product (GDP) (ABS 2010). By 2056, economy activity is estimated to increase five times, energy consumption and manufacturing activity to triple with the population growth increase by over 50% (Akadiri, Chinyio and Olomolaiye 2012). With construction industry affecting the economy, ultimately, it also affects the social, cultural and environmental aspects of the country. Decades ago, sustainable construction was not even a common term for construction processes and

New Belgium Brewing: Ethical and Environmental Responsibility History Belgium is home of the finest ales and have been known to brew for centuries. So when Jeff Lebesch, an electrical engineer from Fort Collins, Colorado took a bicycle trip through Belgium it made him realize there may be a market back home to sell Belgian-style ale. Jeff returned home with hopes to experiment and brew his own beer in his basement from the various ingredients he received on his trip. When his friends