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In a first for the coffee industry, Starbucks has teamed with Conservation International in developing purchasing guidelines requiring that suppliers meet more rigorous sustainability standards.
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Just when we thought emergency exit sign illumination had reached an unbeatable low-energy plateau with LED (light-emitting diode) technology, we learn of a quite different technology offering even greater energy savings and some performance advantages.
by Emily Rabin
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Soy ink's U.S. market share is on the grow, telling a story of success and sustainability.
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Now it's in black and white: shifting to recycled paper not only is desirable from an environmental perspective, but also feasible from a business perspective. These firms did it right. From The Green Business Letter.
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Environmental Building News gets around. This time: The Breathe Easy office, recycled content certified in Collins Particleboard, American Tree Farm system on the grow, and a Frisco (Texas) First: Codified Green Building Program. Posted July 6, 2001.
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The National Electrical Manufacturers Association has launched a program it says could save more than 5,800 gigawatts of electricity and prevent the release of nearly 80 million metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere over the next decade.
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When the average person has too much coffee, the drinker tends to get jittery. When the coffee market has too much coffee, researchers get clear-headed, looking for alternative uses for the bean.
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St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County, Ore., creates marketable products and jobs from wood, glass, and other discards removed from the waste stream. From In Business magazine.
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The challenge of this new century is to extend the economic progress of the last 50 years, while halting ecological decline -- a sick planet will, sooner or later, lead to a faltering economy. That’s the message from an annual “statistical snapshot” of the world just published by the Worldwatch Institute.
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Corporate travel planners and hoteliers have a friend in the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, whose new tool aims to help both cash in on sustainability.
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A natural foods cooperative supermarket in Wisconsin shows what it takes to design, build, landscape and finance an environmentally superior retail structure. By Jeff Olawski.
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St. Paul’s WoodWins demonstrates the potential value from recovered materials — more than $3,000 per ton! By Alex Danovitch.
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Three Ricoh Electronics plants have cut their landfill-bound waste to zero, achieving 100% resource recovery, the company has announced.
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With clean energy leading the way, clean technology, which already represents a multibillion-dollar market, will grow as much as tenfold over the coming decade, according to a new report.
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A major certifier of sustainably managed forests is flush with green, thanks to a $5 million grant from the Ford Foundation, an independent, nonprofit philanthropic organization.
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ENS) – Paper is gaining over plastic in mulches used to grow commercial fruits and vegetables as well as the home grown varieties, show new Agricultural Research Service studies.
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Can profit, nature, and fairness really be reconciled? Or does progress in one area always mean falling short in another? By Rodney North
by Rodney North
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Dole Fresh Fruit Company, a subsidiary of Dole Food Company Inc., plans to begin offering certified organic bananas to consumers this month.