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General Motors Corp. reduced emissions from its North American manufacturing plants by 24% over the past two years, the company announced in its 1999-2000 report on economic, environmental, and social progress.
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Call it humbug, call it the Ghost of Christmas Future, but shopping via the Web may be worse for the environment than previously thought.
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ENS) – A company's whose technology allows medical images to be obtained without the use of chemicals was among those recognized as the best and brightest at the European Awards for the Environment 2000.
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A rapidly growing multinational company competing in advanced technology markets has inaugurated in Montreal what it says is the largest commercial solar research, development, and manufacturing facility in North America.
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That next Big Mac you get might be wrapped in sustainability. EarthShell Corporation, makers of environmentally preferable disposable food packaging, announced yesterday that McDonald’s Corp. has approved its EarthShell sandwich container for use in 300 of the fast food giant’s restaurants.
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United Recycling Industries, Inc. is the first company to be designated as a Certified Electronics Recycler by the International Association of Electronics Recyclers.
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A materials scientist has developed a new process that creates silicon-based chemicals from sand. The technique could mean the cleaner manufacture of ceramics, glass, rubber, building materials, electronic and telecommunications devices, personal care products, and pharmaceuticals.
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Chiquita, the world's top banana producer, which grows about one-quarter of all bananas sold, announced its participation this week in the Better Banana Project, an environmental certification program requiring companies to rein in the use of toxic chemicals, reduce pollution, and conserve soil and water.
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Walden Asset Management, a leading social investment firm, praised decisions this week by CVS and Longs Drug Stores to phase out sales of mercury thermometers, and called on their competitors to follow suit.
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If the meek are slated to inherit the earth, then small businesses with bold ideas will be the ones to save it for them. Jacquelyn Ottman
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ENS) – A new $300 million program to encourage expanded production of environmentally friendly fuels made from corn, soybeans and other crops is under way.
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AP) — A little more green and white instead of black can help keep Louisiana's capital of Baton Rouge cooler, federal scientists say after analyzing infrared photographs of the city.
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Sony Electronics and Waste Management Inc. today announced they are launching an electronics recycling program in Minnesota. The program is the first of its kind in the United States.
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The most successful businesses are those that understand, appreciate, and leverage the system in which they operate. By Jacquelyn Ottman
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The U.S. biofood industry, under closer scrutiny since the recent contamination of taco shells with unapproved biotech corn, has said it would create an advisory panel with consumer groups, farmers, food makers, grain exporters and other groups.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner said yesterday no decision has been made on whether the agency would begin regulating mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
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A perspective on the future from Ford’s chairman, William Clay Ford.
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DaimlerChrysler Corporation is testing plastics recycling technology that could help make the company's vehicles 95% recoverable within the next few years, significantly reducing the impact of end-of-life vehicles on the environment.
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Canon Inc. announced today that it has won the International Energy Agency's Demand-Side Management Program's Copier of the Future 'IEA-DSM Award of Excellence.'
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday offered possible regulatory or policy flexibility to its laboratories participating in the Labs21 program, suggesting labs could reduce their electricity demand by 68%, energy use by 66%, and water consumption by 80%, depending on the laboratory.
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High density hardwood trees make high quality furniture, cabinets and paneling. Low density softer woods make lumber and paper. Now Australian scientists have found a way to grow trees to fit the products they are intended to become.
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84 Lumber Company, the nation's fourth-largest supplier of building materials, said Thursday it will phase out sales of products from endangered forests by the end of 2003.
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The U.S. Department of Energy committed nearly $8 million in aid last week for researchers experimenting with ways to use crops, trees, and other organic matter as the source of plastics, paints, and adhesives.
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A barrier to 100% recycling of outmoded computers has been overcome with the development of an environmentally friendly adhesive.
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development and some of the world's biggest cement producers say they're designing a blueprint for a future that will contribute to both a prosperous cement industry and a sustainable global economy.