What Obama’s Climate Change Plan Means for Business

President Obama’s speech last week represented a long-awaited and significant step forward for climate change policy in America.

The three prongs of Obama’s Climate Change Plan: 1. Cut Carbon Pollution in America 2. Prepare the United States for Climate Change and 3. Lead International Efforts to Address Global Climate Change, provide a helpful way to classify the range of initiatives that will be necessary for the U.S. to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
What does it the plan mean for …

Clean greens up our office complex

In late 2012, Clean undertook an effort to calculate the carbon footprint of our office complex – a modern, open-concept building at 99 Pasadena Ave in South Pasadena.

Working in conjunction with building management, other tenants and maintenance workers, we gathered the data we needed on energy use, water use and waste management, to calculate the building’s carbon footprint. We also delivered several improvement recommendations, which the building management is now working to implement.
A new website for the …

Using GIS to Improve Product-Level Carbon Footprinting

Two studies by Dr. Bob Vos, Clean Agency’s VP of Research and Adjunct Professor of Research in the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, postulate that integrating Geographic Information System (GIS) tools with product-level carbon footprinting efforts could significantly improve the accuracy of carbon footprint calculations for fiber-based products.
The studies, co-written with Josh Newell from the University of Michigan, found that the ability of forests to absorb and store carbon varies significantly depending on the type of forest …

New article on Environmental Leader – Carbon Footprinting for Products: What Companies Should Know

Carbon Footprinting for products has become an evermore popular endeavor for consumer goods companies seeking to understand the impact of their products on the environment.
As the practice has become more popular, new standards have been developed to guide product-level carbon footprinting. Clean’s Dr. Bob Vos and Candace Hodder have put together an article, published on Environmental Leader, containing tips for companies seeking to embark on the practice for their company.
Read the full article here: www.environmentalleader.com/2012/07/11/carbon-footprinting-for-products-what-companies-should-know/
 

Los Angeles opens its streets to cyclists for CicLAvia

Often when people think of Los Angeles they picture busy streets, gasoline fumes and honking cars. But for two days a year, downtown Los Angeles closes 6 miles of street to cars and opens it up to cyclists.
For anyone who’s never experienced an event like CicLAvia I highly recommend it — there’s a real freedom to cycling around city streets without worrying about traffic. LA’s event this past Sunday brought in over 100,000 cyclists, skateboarders, rollerbladers and pedestrians. Combine …

Liz Claiborne

Liz Claiborne, Inc. engaged Clean Agency to conduct the company’s first U.S. carbon footprint, to measure Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
The engagement included project management of data gathering and development of a statistical sampling methodology for hundreds of retail outlets across the country. The footprint covered Liz Claiborne, Inc. brands Lucky Brand, Juicy Couture, kate spade, Jack Spade, Liz Claiborne New York, DKNY Jeans, and Kensie/Mac&Jac, and quantified emissions from US …

Global Green USA Unveils Los Angeles City Carbon Index; Clean Agency Supports Launch

LOS ANGELES (February 24, 2011) – Global Green USA, a national environmental non-profit that advocates for climate solutions, unveiled yesterday the beta version of its City Carbon Index globalgreen.org/citycarbonindex  (CCI) – a new Web tool designed to benchmark cities’ efforts to reduce carbon emissions and motivate citizens to advocate for smart climate policies at a local level, starting in Los Angeles.
The index was created to be similar to a smog index for CO2 pollution, to help people understand the magnitude of carbon …