California’s PG&E names OneSource Green Supplier of the Year
OneSource Supply Solutions/Sonepar, Oceanside, Calif., has been named “Green Supplier of the Year” by PG&E. OneSource’s Green Supply initiative review process began with an extensive case study performed by the University of California, Berkeley. Their analysis and recommendations of the company’s Greenhouse Gas footprint (GHG footprint) with relation to the products and services provided to PG&E was the initial stepping stone. Darrin Allen, OneSource’s director of quality and process, led the way to successful ISO 14001 certification of four OneSource facilities in California (Oakland, Oceanside, Buena Park and San Diego). Both initiatives were sponsored by PG&E.
OneSource’s green practices include: implementing an environmental tracking system to track comprehensive reductions in Green House Gases (GHG); using a web-based tracking system to measure and track overall environmental goals including recycling of packing and shipping materials, wood, paper, plastic, cans and bottles; retrofitting all facilities with energy-saving lamps and energy management controls to minimize energy consumption; hosting an “Energy Week” for employees and customers; and presenting and participated in the 2011 Alliance Sustainability forum in order to learn and share new green technologies being implemented by companies in similar businesses.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.