Rank / Company Name / Industry
1 Biogen Idec - Biotechnology
2 Allergan - Pharmaceuticals
18 Johnson & Johnson - Pharmaceuticals
26 Coca-Cola Enterprises - Beverages
38 Sigma-Aldrich - Chemicals
It’s Not Just About Money Anymore – Top 100 Sustainable Companies List
Corporate Knights Top 100 Sustainable Companies List
Corporate Knights is a business advisory company based in Toronto Ontario Canada. Since 2005 they have published a top 100 global sustainable company ranking list which has grown more popular over the years. Last month the new list (for which the judging starts each October 1st) was published. The USA took the top two spots and a total of twenty USA companies made the top 100 list. Twelve Canadian companies made the list with Tim Horton’s being the highest ranked at slot 11.
USA Companies in the Top 100
Move Over George Jetson – it’s the Apple iCar!
Since Valentine’s Day online news has been exploding around the rumor of an Apple iCar in the works. The first breaking of the story came from the Wall Street Journal with the inspiring headline “Apple Gears Up to Challenge Tesla in Electric Cars”. The article goes on to cite several interesting tidbits surrounding a secret R&D project called “Titan” lead by respected Apple VP Steve Zadesky, such as:
Steve has recently traveled to Austria to meet with car manufacturers
Steve has been given permission by Apple CEO, Tim Cook, to build a 1000 person team to work on his car project.
Sources say that he has been recruiting people internally from different departments within Apple as well as poaching talent from the likes of Tesla that have automotive expertise.
An unsolicited email sent from an “Apple Employee” to Business Insider about Vehicle Development stated “"Apple's latest project is too exciting to pass up," ….."I think it will change the landscape and give …
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Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric Twerking @bout the Internet in this New BMW Superbowl Ad
You don't have to remember 1994 to find this "Newfangled" Superbowl spot fun. Thanks to @BMW, internet history plays a key role in their latest ad campaign for the all-electric i3.
In a classic flashback to 1994, Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric banter on the set of The Today Show in unabashed confusion about this curious new thing called "the Internet" and the use of that funny looking symbol with an A in a circle. At? Around? About? What is this digital world coming to?
Kudos to BMW for bringing the relevance of Alternative Energy into the real world of Today.
E-NJOY.
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The Noiseless, Waveless, Freaky Fast Watercraft of Tomorrow
Meet the Quadrofoil. Silent, Smooth, Eco-Friendly and Freaky Fast.
This eco-friendly, electric-powered personal watercraft offers zero emissions but maximum fun as you navigate lakes, rivers and oceans at up to 40 knots…making even a James Bond escape seem sedate. The innovation is in the patented hydrofoil technology that allows the craft to float above the water as wing-like blades called hydrofoils create lift beneath the surface of the water.
Quadrofoil is the first all-electric, totally environmentally friendly watercraft and can even be taken to marine-protected areas. Its patented hydrofoil steering system, automatic balancing, stabilization and airtight top module renders this two-person watercraft almost unsinkable as it cuts silently through waves up to 20 inches high.
Want One?
Simple. Place and order and deposit and you may just have delivery by March of 2015. You can expect to pay in the $20k range for this 2-seater, which can be pay for itself in one summer …
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IKEA Purchases New Wind Farm…Assembly Instructions Blow Away
November 18, 2014-
The IKEA Group announced today that it had purchased it's second wind farm in the United States from Apex Clean Energy: a 165-megawatt wind farm in Cameron County, Texas.
This represents the single largest renewable energy investment made by the IKEA Group globally to date. The wind farm will contribute significantly to the IKEA Group 2020 goal of producing as much renewable energy as the total energy the company consumes globally. The Cameron Wind farm is expected to be fully operational in late 2015.
Earlier this year IKEA Group announced its first U.S. wind farm purchase located in Hoopeston, Illinois. The Cameron Wind farm will be more than one-and-a-half times the size of the Hoopeston project.
IKEA Group has now committed to own and operate 279 wind turbines in nine countries, and will invest a total of $1.9 billion[2] in wind and solar power up to the end of 2015. IKEA has also taken steps to further the development of a low-c…
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This Bus is Powered by Your Waste. Holy Sh*t!
New York City was first with it’s No-Idling laws, but the UK, it seems, won’t settle for #2.
Unless of course it’s the #2 (Human waste) that just happens to be fueling the first-of-its-kind city bus. The 40-seater Bio-Bus runs on fuel generated from treated sewage and food waste and helps improve urban air quality as it produces fewer emissions than traditional diesel engines. The bus can travel up to 200 miles on a full tank of gas generated at Bristol sewage treatment works – a plant run by GENeco, a subsidiary of Wessex Water. Up to 10,000 passengers are expected to travel on the Bio-Bus each month.
It’s not petrol, bio-diesel or natural gas. It’s Biomethane, and can even be used to power up to 8,500 homes, and although the bus's graphics seem to imply it’s a moving shitter, the fuel is actually a product of Bristol sewage treatment, which treats around 75 million cubic meters of sewage waste and 35,000 tons of food waste through a process known as anaerobic digestio…
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