Going green and Griener [News]

By Michelle Yeo, The Business Times, 30 Aug 2011.

The average car wash offered in any standard Singapore petrol kiosk uses up more than 120 litres of water per car. This is both troubling and unacceptable, for Firdaus Iqbal, managing director of Griener Solutions. His solution: Grienwash Eco-Care System, a waterless car wash service, as an eco-friendlier alternative.

Using a special liquid-based solution, which has been certified by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as being 99 per cent biodegradable and with no additional usage of water, Mr Iqbal’s team of professionally trained car washers have for the past year been going around cleaning cars, and being eco-friendly in the process. Read more

No water wasted – with green car wash [News]

By Jessica Cheam, The Straits Times, 29 Aug 2011.

The label ‘greenwash’ is a dirty word that strikes fear in many firms and invites scepticism from consumers.

It is used to describe marketing spin that makes false claims about a product’s green credentials.

But a local start-up has launched a service that it wants customers to know as precisely that – a green wash. It is a waterless car wash that saves tonnes of water using eco-friendly cleaning products. It does not leave behind foam, water or dirt on the floor.

Griener Solutions managing director Firdaus Iqbal named his car-washing service Grienwash because he wanted to ‘put a spin’ on the word for branding purposes. Read more

Latest Green Jobs in Singapore [22 - 28 Aug 2011]

1. Energy Manager, Novexx Pte Ltd
2. Lead C&S Design Engineer (Water Infrastructure), Hays Specialist Recruitment Pte Ltd
3. Senior Environmental Testing Technician, Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd
4. Environmental Testing Technician, Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd
5. EHS Engineer, People Profilers Pte Ltd
6. Corporate Development Manager, Urban Redevelopment Authority
7. Planner (Development Control), Urban Redevelopment Authority
8. Urban Planner (Strategic Planning), Urban Redevelopment Authority
9. Urban Planner (Physical Planning), Urban Redevelopment Authority
10. Architect (Projects), Urban Redevelopment Authority
11. ISO Consultant cum Safety Trainer, Absolute Kinetics Consultancy Pte Ltd
12. Technician (Water Treatment), AFPD Pte Ltd
13. Engineer (Water Treatment), AFPD Pte Ltd
14. Post-Doctoral Researcher in Microbial Fuel Cell Development, Siemens Pte Ltd
15. Lead / Senior Process Design Engineer (Water Infrastructure), Hays Specialist Recruitment Pte Ltd
16. HSE Engineer, Hays Specialist Recruitment Pte Ltd
17. R&D Engineer (Waste-to-Energy), Keppel Environmental Technology Centre
18. School of Applied Science – Academic Staff, Republic Polytechnic
19. Environment Specialist, Enviro Pro Green Innovations (S) Pte Ltd
20. Project Engineer, JobOne Pte Ltd
21. Project Manager / Engineers, Renaissance Management Services Pte Ltd
22. Project Manager – Civil & Environment (Tianjin), Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd
23. Senior Research Scientist, Siemens Pte Ltd
24. HSE Specialist, Halliburton Far East Pte Ltd
25. EH&S Manager, YCH Group Pte Ltd
26. Executive, Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS), Amtek Precision Technology Pte Ltd
27. Account Manager, GE Energy
28. Senior Manager / Divisional Director, Environment & Engineering Services, Capita Group
29. Operation Engineer (Waste-To-Energy), Keppel Seghers Engineering Singapore Pte Ltd
30. Temp Management Support Officer (Strategic Issues), CSS Recruitment Services
31. Corporate Communications Manager, UGL Services
32. Water Sensitive Urban Design, Enviro Pro Green Innovations (S) Pte Ltd
33. Executive (Operations), National Parks Board
34. Senior / Process Engineer (Water & Wastewater), Keppel Seghers Engineering Singapore Pte Ltd
35. Engineering Director (Water Treatment Engineering), Bayes Recruitment Pte Ltd

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DHL Express Singapore improves carbon efficiency with GoGreen program

The DHL Express division in Singapore achieved a 15.7% improvement in carbon efficiency in 2010, and this was through the implementation of the GoGreen program on climate protection.

As a logistics company with a global network and footprint, DHL is conscious of its environmental and social responsibility. One of the key areas that DHL is committed to is on combating climate change. Christopher Ong, Vice President of Business Development, First Choice and GoGreen, DHL Asia Pacific, shares that the global carbon footprint of DHL in 2010 is 28.4 million tonnes, with the bulk from transport.

He added that DHL has set a goal to improve its carbon efficiency by 10% by 2012, and by 30% by 2020. This goal would be achieved through its climate protection program, GoGreen, which was rolled out in 2007, and focuses on fleet renewal, energy efficiency, new technologies, employee engagement and involving business partners and customers. Read more

Companies stake out greener pastures [News]

By Cheah Ui-Hoon, The Business Times, 26 Aug 2011.

Han Yu, 54, remembers a green landscape when he was growing up in Wafang, an area near the Horqin desert in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ‘That was when I was six or seven years old… the trees were tall then – poplar, elm, pine and willow,’ he recalls.

In his 20s, a population boom meant that more trees had to be cut down to build houses. Farmers also began to rear more cattle, sheep and horses, increasing the grazing pressure on the grasslands. ‘The situation just got worse every year until it became a desert,’ shares Han, a farmer with dark, bronzed skin and deep creases in his face, a result of living on the edge of a desert with its harsh summers and bitter winters.

By the 1980s, Horqin – which was once lush, thriving grassland – had turned into a desert, and the cause of yellow sandstorms that sweep across the Chinese mainland and other East Asian countries like Japan and Korea every year. Read more

76% of Asia Pacific Governments Recognise the Need for an ICT Sustainability Strategy [Press Releases]

More than three quarters of Asia Pacific government CIOs and IT managers have realised the need for a dedicated office to plan and execute an overall ICT sustainability strategy, according to a new poll released today by Schneider Electric IT Business conducted at an industry event. Interestingly for ICT vendors, 72% of the participants indicated that they include sustainability criteria in the evaluation and selection of ICT purchases. As an effort to explore Asia Pacific’s attitudes towards energy efficiency, the poll results underscore the importance of spreading awareness of energy management amid the high environmental and financial cost of energy throughout this region.

Remarkably, of the 32% of respondents who said that cost and/or availability of electricity will have a significant impact on their data centre’s ability to support operations over the next 3 years, more than 70 percent were from developing countries – India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia. Representatives from the more developed Asia Pacific countries polled – China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore – were less concerned with the supply of energy, noting that it may only affect a limited number of departments or have a minimal impact. Read more

Nippon Paint Receives Product Innovation Award For Decorative Coatings in the Asia Pacific [Press Releases]

Singapore, 25 August 2011 – Nippon Paint has been conferred with the product innovation award in decorative paints by the inaugural 2011 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Green Excellence Awards. This award reaffirms Nippon’s commitment to ecological sustainability and technological innovation to protect and beautify our surroundings.

Nippon emerged at the top of the product innovation in decorative coatings category for its odour-less AirCare, an eco-friendly paint that continually absorbs harmful indoor air pollutant and results in clean fresh air. The evaluation process included a rigorous measurement-based short listing, in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research by industry analysts from Frost & Sullivan and the award recipients are finally selected by a panel of expert judges. Read more

Waste as a Resource: Potentials & Limits [Events]

Date: 31 Aug 2011, 2 – 3.30pm
Speaker: Professor Rainer Stegmann
Register at the SEI website

Source: SEI

CSR movement turning to young people [News]

By Michelle Yeo, The Business Times, 25 Aug 2011.

Young people are becoming the focus for promoting corporate social responsibility (CSR) as the time comes to build a new generation of CSR-oriented business leaders.

Singapore Compact for CSR, the national organisation responsible for pushing the CSR movement, is redirecting its focus to the nation’s youth. The highlight of this redirection is the launch of the inaugural Young CSR Leaders Award together with City Developments Limited (CDL) earlier this March.

Open to tertiary students between the ages of 17 and 30, this year’s competition saw a total of 27 teams working with 10 local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from a range of different industries to help analyse and implement CSR programmes for these businesses. Read more

Electric car trial charges ahead [News]

By Feng Zengkun, The Straits Times, 25 Aug 2011.

The charge for the electric car to be part of the motoring landscape here has started.

Take Mr Eu Pui Sun, managing director of Senoko Energy Supply, who shares just such a car – a Mitsubishi iMiEV – with his colleagues.

The company bought it for $90,000 in June as part of a government project to gauge the viability of these cars here.

‘We wanted to support the green technology,’ said Mr Eu.

The $20 million, three-year trial will evaluate factors such as the distance such cars can achieve here and the extent of support infrastructure needed.

Companies and organisations here can lease or buy up to 95 such cars in total from distributors and manufacturers without paying vehicular taxes or bidding for certificates of entitlement. Read more

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