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t doesn’t take a leap of faith to understand that the best way to reduce toxic emissions is to not make them in the first place. That’s the simple idea behind pollution prevention: the "best" pollution is the one you never create. Putting that into practice has led companies to re-examine their products and processes with an eye to reducing or eliminating toxic ingredients, recycling or reusing chemicals to keep them out of the waste stream, and using a wide range of alternative materials to replace polluting ones.
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Done right, aquaculture is a sustainable way to produce healthy protein. But done wrong fish farming can create major environmental problems.
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Want to create 1.9 million American jobs and add $265 billion to the economy? Upgrade our water infrastructure.
Five of Apple's suppliers have long histories of environmental pollution and dodging regulations, according to a coalition of green NGOs....
The state of Washington can move ahead with its strong new energy code now that a U.S. district court judge has rejected a challenge from a building trade group that claimed the code runs afoul of......
A major report from a group of Chinese NGOs accuses the technology giant of 'dodging' questions about its green credentials and workers' rights....
"Poo-Gloos," igloo-shaped domes that clean up wastewater, are able to strip pollution from sewage water as well as large, expensive treatment facilities....
Laws introduced in California over the last 20 years for cleaner fuels and diesel truck engines has had an immediate impact on addressing black carbon, leading to an improvement of the state's......
In a bid to cut air pollution, the City of London began spraying a "dust suppressant" today that acts as an adhesive to paste particulate matter to the streets instead of re-......
A small company based in rural Montana has big dreams for using post-consumer plastic waste to restore fish populations, sequester carbon, remove water pollution -- and create unlimited amounts of......
The retail giants are signing on to NRDC's Clean By Design program to put 10 low-cost practices to work on cutting water, energy and chemical use in textile dyeing and finishing....
The biggest winner in the $10-million Automotive X PRIZE competition is not an electric car, but a car that weighs less than 1,000 pounds and is powered by an internal combustion......
A new study ranks the impacts that common foods have not just on climate change, but on the water pollution that leads to dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and other bodies of water....
Waste Management’s Jim Hall and Caterpillar’s Jim Blass in conversation with Joel Makower, Executive Editor of GreenBiz.com, will explorE of how companies are achieving zero waste....
Hewlett Packard has become the latest company to release some of its intellectual property to the public good, with three green patents added to the Eco-Patent Commons today....
In spring, about the time the press coverage of the Gulf oil spill cranked into high gear, Shelton Group conducted a poll to see whether the event was affecting mindset of Americans on energy. The......
Despite efforts to improve operations, cruise ships that ply North American waters must go a lot further to become environmentally responsible, says Friends of the Earth, whose latest report card......
The EPA has awarded funds to 11 companies working on everything from green buildings to nanotech, with the goal of helping the firms bring their technologies to market....
For the second year in a row, Nalgene is ranking the country's 25 biggest cities on just how wasteful they are. The results may surprise you....
The latest crazy idea of the day combines genetic modification with industrial agriculture to reduce water pollution from hog farms....
A bill that would require Colorado's largest utility to switch coal-fired power plants to cleaner fuels such as natural gas is heading to the state Senate in the next week. The natural gas......
With 500 members in 42 states and 11 countries, the Eco-Dentistry Association has launched a certification program for green dental practices and named its two inaugural recipients....
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