Articles tagged “Green Companies”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

PVC In Your Electronics? In the New Greenpeace Green Guide, Toxin-Free Gadgets Win By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Oct 27 2010 If Philips can create a TV without these toxic chemicals, "there is now no excuse for other TV manufacturers not to follow.“ + READ MORE

Have a Favorite Green Business? Green America Wants Your Vote By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Aug 31 2010 Speak up with a nomination for your favorite green company in the People's Choice Award for green business of the year. + READ MORE

Recycling Can Make Being Green Hilarious (VIDEO) By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 16 2010 The folks who design for our future are looking to us for clues to helping people go greener. How about using humor? + READ MORE

Can Sustainable Design Inspire Behavioral Changes? By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Work & Connect Apr 15 2010 The basic principle of "sustainable design" is to reduce the environmental impact of products. It requires people to change their behaviors. Innovators of design know that they have an immense impact on consumer purchasing power. + READ MORE

TerraCycle Takes A Bite Out Of The Big Apple By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Tech & Transport Apr 1 2010 TerraCycle prevents thousands of tons of waste from going into our landfills. The company's mission to eliminate landfill waste by finding innovative and unique uses for materials that others would deem garbage is coming to New York City. + READ MORE

Celebrate National Hot Tea Month By Protecting Tropical Forests, One Acre at a Time By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Jan 19 2010 An area of forest the size of Manhattan disappears every four hours. Conservation International is working to protect the world's forests, acre by acre, and Celestial Seasonings is pitching in this month -- $1 for every time anyone takes the quick possibiliTEAS quiz. Got a minute? Save an acre. + READ MORE

Meet Dan Burgess of Naked Planet By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Jan 6 2010 Dan Burgess is the founder of Naked Planet, an innovative communications agency in London that works with brands to help them create more sustainable initiatives within their business. + READ MORE

New Idiot's Guide Simplifies the Equation: Green Business = Sustainable Planet, Bigger Bottom Line (Interview with Trish Riley) By Blythe Copeland IN Work & Connect Oct 9 2009 Trish Riley, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business, talks about the simple steps that can have a big impact on your office's carbon footprint (and on the bottom line). + READ MORE

Why are Green Companies Ditching the Chamber of Commerce? By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Oct 7 2009 The US Chamber of Commerce is the largest not-for-profit business organization in the world. It represents over 3 million companies. It's arguably the most powerful lobbying group in the nation. And it's doing every thing it can to stop climate legislation. + READ MORE

Celestial Seasonings Tea: All Natural After 40 Years By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Sep 23 2009 Celestial Seasonings turned 40 last week. I talked with Kay Wright, the botanicals purchaser for the company, about relationships they've cultivated with farmers around the world, and how they keep their products fresh and natural. + READ MORE

Which Companies are the Best Green Power Purchasers? By Sara Novak IN Tech & Transport Jul 31 2009 The EPA recently released a list of the companies that purchase the mgreen power. These companies are truly putting their money where their mouths are and leading the charge when it comes to renewable energies like biogas, biomass, geothermal, hydro, solar, and wind energy. And you can also put your money where your mouth is by supporting companies that support the planet. + READ MORE

Meet Green Business Consultant Tyler Moorehead, of GreenUnlimited By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Jun 18 2009 Anyone working in the field of sustainability in London over the past few years will have heard the name of green business consultant Tyler Moorehead mentioned on more than one or two occasions. Her passion, energy and fresh ideas for connecting businesses and organizations with their environmental roots mean that she's in high demand. After 20 years of working in media and digital business on a wide variety of business development projects she has now set up GreenUnlimited, a consultancy which aims to help environmental and ethical businesses achieve their full potential. + READ MORE

Meet Stan Stalnaker of Hub Culture By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect May 28 2009 Hub Culture founder Stan Stalnaker is running circles around traditional business. While many companies are frantically trying to work out how to fit the digital communications revolution into their traditional business structure, Stan is moving fluidly from the digital space to the physical space and back again. + READ MORE

College Students Bring Low-Cost Solar and Wind Drip Irrigation to Developing Nations By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport May 19 2009 The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) combined with the support of the Lemelson Foundation provides $1.5 million to student and faculty programs and ventures annually. Today's featured project by the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) is a low cost solar/wind drip irrigation system currently being tested in Peru. + READ MORE

Meet Stanley, The Company Bringing Free Water to Bonnaroo By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect May 15 2009 Bonnaroo is going green. Eco-friendly initiatives are not a new thing for the 4-day music festival, held each year in Tennessee, but a special new green feature will be highlighting Bonnaroo's environmental efforts this year. A company called Stanley is working with Bonnarro to provide concert-goers with clean drinking water throughout the festival—for free. + READ MORE

High Efficiency Stove Models Come to Africa By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport May 5 2009 Many areas throughout Africa are known for their lack of fuel for cooking, since supplies are particularly scarce in the more arid regions, such as Rwanda. Many people are forced to cut down trees in order to use the wood as a stove. These indoor fireplaces, as they most closely resemble, cause respiratory disease, degrades soil quality, soil stability, and contribute to extensive deforestation. + READ MORE

Does it Really Matter What Kind of Beer I Buy? By Elizabeth Seward IN Food & Health May 4 2009 Although I know it's greener to not drink at all (or at least limit my drinking), if I'm going to have a drink—does it really matter what kind of beer I buy? Find out in this weeks "Ask Planet Green." + READ MORE

Reasons To Support Seventh Generation By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Apr 27 2009 Seventh Generation is a company I support. Really, I support green cleaners and products, in general, but Seventh Generation happens to be what the store down the street from my house sells and therefore it is what I buy. + READ MORE

Join Thousands to Celebrate Earth Month on the National Mall By David DeFranza IN Work & Connect Apr 14 2009 If you will be in the Washington, DC, area on April 19, 2009, head over to the National Mall to celebrate with an expected crowd of thousands. Earth Day on the National Mall 2009 is an event organized by the Earth Day Network and will kick off the Green Generation Campaign. With a full schedule of guest speakers and exhibitors, this event is one that you certainly don't want to miss. + READ MORE

Affordable Solar Thermal Microgenerator Technology is Coming to Rural South Africa By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Apr 14 2009 The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) combined with the support of the Lemelson Foundation provides $1.5 million to student and faculty programs and ventures annually. Today's featured project by STG International, a non-profit organization started by the combined initiative of engineers and students trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is a solar thermal microgenerator capable of providing both electricity and heat to the rural areas of South Africa. + READ MORE