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Amercian ice-cream giants Ben & Jerry's have launched a new competition in a bid to encourage socially responsible entrepreneurs to give back to the environment and community.

This year's Energy from Waste conference addresses the key challenges facing the industry and provides some exciting visions of where waste to energy might develop - as part of regeneration, heat delivery for new industry, electricity and fuel for industry, transport and aviation.

3 February 2012 - Stoke-on-Trent, UK - CICS (Complete Integrated Certification Services Ltd), a global sustainability assurance provider and the leading greenhouse gas verification body in the UK and Ireland, has recently carried out independent assurance of the Sustainability Report produced by the BFS Group Limited (trading as 3663 and Bidvest Logistics).

UK sustainable business spending is set to grow twenty times faster than economic growth in 2012 and will be responsible for driving green growth, it has been claimed.

Drinks giant Coca-Cola has unveiled how it will continue to hit "stringent" targets to reduce water usage in its first digital Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

Water flows have improved in the UK's rivers as a result of tighter rules on abstraction for businesses, water companies and agriculture, but there is still a way to go says the Environment Agency (EA).

Car manufacturing giant Ford has revealed that it has invested Euro2.3m in its five-year water reduction strategy.

Transport Minister Norman Baker opens electric-vehicle rapid charger at Midlands printing company RCS

As Saudi Arabia's Al Shumaisi wastewater treatment plant takes shape advanced technology is very much driving the scheme, so report lead contractor ACWA Emirates.

Sustainability leaders from a range of UK brands gathered in London yesterday (January 24) to thrash-out solutions to sustainability challenges, arguing that collaboration between businesses has a crucial part to play in improving sustainability.

Water minister Richard Benyon has launched a consultation in a bid to tackle bad debt in the water industry, which cost water suppliers more than £1.6bn last year.

Green energy company Ecotricity has today (January 23) unveiled plans to install 200 wave power devices off the UK coast as it looks to grow its portfolio of wind and tidal technologies.

WWEM 2012, the Water Wastewater & Environmental Monitoring event (Telford, 7/8th November 2012) has announced a partnership with SWIG to help accelerate the sharing of knowledge at this year's event.

Preparing for the inevitable winter freeze is a major issue for train operators with stringent performance targets to keep the trains on time.

New campaign group Energy Fair has submitted a formal complaint to the European Commission about subsidies for nuclear power.

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has signed a pilot agreement with energy storage and clean fuel company ITM Power to deliver what it claims is the UK's first hydrogen fuel powered vehicles.

A Perthshire landowner and contractor have been handed a fine of £9,900 for illegal waterworks in the River Tay, Scotland.

Ecologia's South West regional office is on the move. Since opening in January 2009 the office has managed a large number of projects and we have consolidated our position in the region.

WRAP and Anglian Water Business have joined forced forces in a bid to help businesses cut their water bills.

European research project Transitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow (TRUST) is gearing up to publish the first results of a major water study to explore the sustainability of the water services in Europe and Africa.