• Insight: Winning with Sustainability Tomorrow
• Notable: Amtrak, Bacardi, Eli Lilly, FedEx, Google, Meijer, Motorola, PepsiCo/Waste Management, SeEsA, Staples, Whole Foods
• Members Only: Register your team, Members only call
• ROI Success Stories: Hilton, Sunny Delight
• Government and Legal: Senator Graham walks away from climate bill, EPA GHG data publication guidelines
• Tech Innovations: solid-state hydrogen storage tanks
• Economic Indicators & Trends: China leads in cleantech IPOs, concentrating solar investment, sustainable agriculture
• New Research & Tools: S&P 100 emission goals, REC prices, biofuel emissions, new reporting capabilities within Oracle applications, green colleges

NOTABLE

Amtrak debuted its first green train, which is powered by biodiesel created from beef byproducts.
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Bacardi unveiled the largest wind power installation in Puerto Rico at the world's largest largest rum distillery. The turbines will deliver between 3 and 7 percent of the distillery’s energy.
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Eli Lilly announced progress toward its sustainability goals, including lowering energy use by 5 percent, cutting waste sent to landfills by 56 percent, and reducing water use by 30 percent compared to 2007 levels.
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FedEx reduced aviation emissions intensity by 8 percent and improved vehicle fuel efficiency by 14 percent over 2005 levels.
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Google now recycles 100 percent of its water at two of its data center locations and is pushing for 100 percent recycled water to cool all of its data centers.
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Supermarket retailer Meijer is adding 75 Freightliner Cascadia trucks to its fleet, which will cut nitrogen oxide emissions to near-zero levels and become the first fleet of 2010 EPA emission-compliant vehicles in North America.
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Motorola saw a 35% reduction in absolute CO2 emissions since 2005, but also reported an increase in normalized emissions in 2009. The company released the details of its revised climate strategy in its 2009 corporate responsibility report, which included: a pledge to cut GHG emissions from operations by 15 percent (normalized to sales) by the end of 2010 over 2005 levels; and plans to increase the share of its renewable energy purchasing from 20 to 30 percent of total usage by 2020. The report also reviews Motorola’s waste-reduction efforts and eco-innovation around greener phones and enterprise mobility products.
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PepsiCo and Waste Management are jointly launching 3,000 “Dream Machine” kiosks that aim to recycle at least 400 million of the 130 billion bottles and cans thrown away each year in the U.S.
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The Ship Efficiency & Energy Storage Assessment (SeEsA) consortium of shipping industry companies aims to reduce fuel consumption by 15 to 25 percent, which is in line with reduction targets sought by several international bodies, including the EU and UN.
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Staples debuted its “Staples Green Guide,” an online catalog through which businesses can purchase sustainably produced and eco-conscious office products.
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Whole Foods announced a new goal to reduce energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions per square foot of its stores by 25 percent by 2015.
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• The CEF Annual Meeting is 6 weeks away: please register your team and reserve discounted hotel rooms as soon as possible. Each member may send three senior executives (VP-level or "rising stars") to the meeting.
• Members-only call: May 11, Noon-1:00 EST: “The Eco-Issues that Will Drive Tomorrow's NGO Campaigns.” Register yourself and your colleagues.

ROI SUCCESS STORIES

Hilton saved hotel owners over $29 million in water and energy costs in 2009 through its proprietary “LightStay” system, which measures indicators across 200 operational practices including housekeeping, paper product use, food waste, chemical storage, air quality and transportation.
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Sunny Delight Beverage Company met its goal of sending zero waste to landfills three years ahead of schedule and has changed waste from an expense to a revenue stream.
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GOVERNMENT AND LEGAL

Senator Lindsey Graham pulled his support from Graham-Kerry-Lieberman climate bill on Saturday to protest Democratic plans to give priority to an immigration policy debate.
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The White House is reviewing EPA-recommended guidelines on what information from greenhouse gas reports should be considered public vs confidential for large emitters.
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TECH INNOVATIONS

French company McPhy Energy has delivered a commercial-scale prototype of a solid-state hydrogen storage tank it calls “game-changing” because of it's ability to store hydrogen produced by intermittent solar or wind power, before converting it back to electricity with almost no energy losses.
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ECONOMIC INDICATORS & TRENDS

According to Deloitte, the majority of cleantech IPOs in the first quarter of 2010 were from the Chinese market. Last week, however, US biofuel science maker Codexis completed its $78 million IPO — which although short of its target nonetheless fueled speculation that other US clean tech IPOs would soon follow.
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In one of the biggest green tech deals of the year, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and other investors are making a big bet on concentrating photovoltaic power systems by investing $129 million in Amonix — a solar power company that has spent 20 years developing the technology.
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Venture capitalists are getting interested in sustainable agriculture.
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NEW RESEARCH AND TOOLS

A Carbon Disclosure Project finds S&P 100 companies will miss President Obama’s goal of a 17 percent reduction by 2020 and increase absolute emissions if current trends continue. In a related story, a Potsdam Institute study found that the government emission reduction pledges made in Copenhagen are unlikely to keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.
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In 2009, purchases of Renewable Energy Credits by U.S. companies varied from $1 to $650 according to Pike Research.
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An EU report found some biofuels create up to four times more greenhouse gas emissions than traditional gasoline and diesel fuels.
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Ndevr has developed greenhouse gas (GHG) management and reporting capabilities for use within Oracle Applications to help organizations “easily incorporate environmental metrics and data into existing infrastructure and business processes.”
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The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council released a joint guide to 286 green colleges. A separate survey by the Princeton Review concluded that when deciding on a prospective university, 64 percent of applicants would be impacted by a school’s commitment to the environment.
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