Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

Verteego launches Verteego Construction : the carbon management app for building and public works, urban planning and real estate professionnals

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Verteego is proud to present Verteego Construction, an online carbon assessment application especially designed to meet the needs of the building and public works industry. Based on its various discussions with its customers (Group IDEC, IOISIS Nord, SETEC, VEYER, Le Bon Marché, Communauté d'Agglomération de Sarreguemines-Confluence, Communauté d'Agglomération de Val-et-Forêt (the ...

Join us for a Verteego webinar and discover how our GHG management app works

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Dear Verteeblog readers, Verteego is pleased to invite you to join our free webinar, "Verteego: Carbon & Energy Management made easy" on September 2, 3pm GMT - 4:15pm GMT3pm and 4:15pm GMT London time (10am - 11:15am EST, US East Coast time). Through this one-hour+ long interactive presentation, you will get an ...

The REACh European directive, a puzzle for articles manufacturers and distributors ?

Monday, August 9th, 2010

At first glance, it seems that the answer is a plain yes : every actor of the manufacturing industry, every importer has to deal with hundreds, even thousands of suppliers and sub-contractors from all over the world on a daily basis. The latter, understandably reluctant to communicate too much information to ...

Paris, London and Berlin agree on setting a 30% GHG emissions cut goal

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Jean Louis Borloo, Chris Huhne and Norbert Röttgen, respectively the French, the British and the German minister in charge with the environment have agreed on the necessity to set more ambitious GHG-emission reduction targets. Here is a brief summary of their case. This crisis and the economic turmoil downturn that the ...

“Greenness”, a mere marketing asset ?

Monday, June 28th, 2010

I know this is going to sound nerdy, but hey, I don't care : I am a huge fan of Tolkien's novels and I was thrilled to hear they were about to start shooting a pair of epic fantasy movies based on “The Hobbit”. To be even more accurate, these ...

Heat counting

Monday, June 14th, 2010

The concerns brought about by phenomena such as global warming and depletion of natural resources are starting to be genuinely taken into account by governments. This results in the adoption of various regulations and so called green legislations aiming at achieving GHG emissions cuts.  Recently, public pressure has prompted more ...

“Carbon Management Software to reduce costs”, Keenan Hahn, Vice-President of Verteego Carbon North America

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Here's an interview of Keenan Hahn, Chief of North American Operations at Verteego Carbon, a carbon accounting and management enterprise software solution, on French web TV decideurstv.com. According to Keenan Hahn from Verteego Carbon, the inventory, measurement, management, analysis, reduction and reporting of green house gas (GHG) emissions is an increasingly ...

Verteego Calculates its Carbon Footprint

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Using Verteego Carbon, our online carbon management software, Verteego has calculated its carbon footprint. We are proud to report that Verteego was responsible for emissions of just 3.153 tons of carbon equivalents in 2008. Sustainability and reducing our impact is in our blood here at Verteego, and the results of ...

Reducing GHG emissions: Cost-effective options

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

With the debate and growing consensus about the drastic effects greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will have on the planet, our quality of life, and the economy, it is surprising how little research has been done to identify practical and sensible solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There is very little ...

Interview of Mary Jo Padgett, Environmental & Conservation

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Mary Jo Padgett met through a brillant American-living-in-Paris good friend of ours, Nicholas Chriss, something like 12 months ago. Mary Jo definitely knows what it takes to help people and businesses go green. You'll find why and how in this interview: Gérants verts par DECIDEURS TV