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Three micro-breweries manufacture ‘green’ beers. No, the beers are not the color green, but the micro-breweries power their plants with renewable energy.
New Belgium of Ft. Collins, Colorado became the first U.S. brewery to power its plant with wind turbines in 1998. New Belgium didn’t stop with using renewable energy. The brewery recycles, uses the methane produced by process water treatment to power 15 percent of its electricity and heat. New Belgium provided Solix, a company developing the capability to produce bio-diesel from algae, with several acres on its property, carbon dioxide from fermentation, and warm water from its process water treatment plant.
The World Social Forum takes place annually to provide a meeting ground for civil society organisations, networks and individuals to...[read more]
food riots and the causes behind high food prices.[read more]
Lately our news feeds about the business sector, government and development activities in Latin America have painted a stark picture;...[read more]
On Thursday, Rick Wagoner, Chairman and CEO of General Motors came to San Francisco to speak about the future of...[read more]
Tuesday night, sustainability leaders from all over the Bay Area made their way to the Berkeley facility of Clif Bar...[read more]
Earlier this week, Hilary Clinton stood in front of a crowd of steel workers in a small town in Indiana...[read more]
The UN’s Kyoto Protocol and Clean Development Mechanism, cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions trading systems—nothing but a con and the latest gambit by the international - predominantly Western - political, corporate and media elite to further enrich and secure themselves while doing less than nothing to address environmental degradation and climate change, claims New Delhi’s Centre for Science and Environment.[read more]
Research by the Kenexa Corp. indicates that organizations’ environmental activities and records can significantly influence the views employees’ and potential hires have about managements’ credibility, trustworthiness, and ability to manage and lead, as well as workers’ job satisfaction and employee retention.[read more]
Smart Glass Jewelry has launched a "recycled line." In this case, "Recycled" as in glass accessories form sources as broad...[read more]
After four years of heads down work to find answers where it appeared that only questions existed, Adam Werbach followed...[read more]
If you are one of those people out there who thinks a green car means you have to own...[read more]
Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood certification guarantees that the hardwoods provided were harvested responsibly. Accordingly, the certified producers of these hardwoods are...[read more]
It was announced yesterday that Dell Computer’s 2.1 million-square-foot headquarters in Round Rock, Texas is now powered entirely with renewable...[read more]
“Sustainability is the Opportunity”-Jeff Mendelsohn, Founder and President of New Leaf Paper Last evening Triple Pundit founder Nick Aster and I...[read more]
Foresters, climatolgists and environmental agencies are devoting much time and effort to figure out a way to include deforestation abatement into the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development and carbon trading schemes. A recently released discussion paper examines the potential effects carbon credits would have on forest conservation and use.[read more]
Israel’s southernmost Eilot region is a special place in several respects. For one, the desert blooms here, thanks to an aquifer that has turned it into an agricultural center. It also holds a unique place in the hearts and minds of the world’s birds, ornithologists and birding enthusiasts, as it in the migratory route for hundreds of species making their way north to Eurasia and their breeding grounds. It’s also a budding center of entrepreneurial spirit and renewable energy, home to the Arava Power Co., which is hatching plans to build a 500 kWhr solar farm on Kibbutz Ketura.[read more]
Public skepticism and mistrust of businesses’ efforts to “go green” not only pose problems for corporations making honest, substantive efforts to do so, they pose significant obstacles for the type of local-to-globally coordinated efforts necessary to mitigate climate change and enhance energy security. Bridging this credibility gap was the subject of a recent GreenPepper “Eco-Concerns” survey. [read more]
The Carbon Disclosure Project and Merrill Lynch & Co. have joined in a three-year global partnership that aims to spur wider adoption of corporate carbon accounting and disclosure standards and help channel investment $$$ into carbon and greenhouse gas reduction projects. [read more]
Looking to draw attention and redress the staggering fact that some 49% of the world's population lack access to basic sanitation and safe, sustainable water sources, the UN has launched a global financing mechanism, the Global Sanitation Fund, and is organizing World Sanitation Day events in Geneva and New York.[read more]
Green certification programs such as the Green Council’s EPEAT are an effective means of getting past organizational greenwash…Even more importantly, they’re making an increasing, positive impact on electronics recycling volumes and practices. Individual consumers need to help shoulder the burden, however, and OEMs can do more to make it easier to recycle and reuse products and parts.[read more]
GreenLoop, the website for your green apparel, accessory and footwear needs. It is a portal to eco-friendly poducts for...[read more]
Greenwash is a new addition to the English lexicon and a practice that offers businesses a potentially quick and high return. Those are likely to turn out to be ephemeral, and even damaging, not only to practitioners but to other organizations intent on making honest efforts to address greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and environmental degradation.[read more]
Are you eating? Here's a few statistics to chew on: In the US, restaurants are the top electricity consumer...[read more]
Issues of environmental justice are increasingly coming to the fore in local, state and federal legislatures and the courts, as evidenced by 12 state district attorneys bringing suit against the EPA over revisions to the Toxic Release Inventory program. Indicative of developments in the West, a precedent recently set in New Mexico’s Supreme Court and interpretation of a 2005 gubernatorial EJ executive order are likely as communities, municipal and the state government wrangle over landfill permits.[read more]
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