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Print to the Finish Hayden Hamilton, CEO of GreenPrint, answers readers' questions		03 Aug 2007	InterActivist
Have you approached Microsoft and/or Apple? I hope my next computer has your software already downloaded! -- Gale Tichenor, Huntington Station, N.Y. Hayden Hamilton, CEO of GreenPrint. Our ultimate goal is exactly that -- to be pre-loaded on the next computer you buy. GreenPrint solves a problem nearly every computer user has -- and the solution applied globally would save tens of millions of trees a ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Printy Freshness Hayden Hamilton, CEO of GreenPrint, answers Grist's questions		30 Jul 2007	InterActivist
Hayden Hamilton. What work do you do? I'm the founder and CEO of GreenPrint. How does it relate to the environment? We recently launched GreenPrint software which analyzes each page of every document sent to the printer and looks for typical waste characteristics (like that last page with just a URL, banner ad, logo, or legal jargon) and then eliminates wasteful pages automatically. GreenPrint also incorpo ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Cutting a Rug Robert Peoples, carpet recycler, answers readers' questions		27 Jul 2007	InterActivist
What comes from a carpet when it is broken down for recycling? What is done with the recycled materials? Are there waste products left over? If there are, what is done with them? -- Carla Yamauchi, Tucson, Ariz. Robert Peoples, executive director of the Carpet America Recovery Effort Carpet is a highly engineered and complex product. It is built to last, and that is what makes it so challenging to recycle. Toda ...
Topics: business, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling (all these topics)

Wanna Shag? Robert Peoples, carpet recycler, answers Grist's questions		23 Jul 2007	InterActivist
Robert Peoples. What work do you do? I run a nonprofit called the Carpet America Recovery Effort, or CARE. I serve as the executive director. I am also the director of sustainability for the Carpet and Rug Institute. Finally, I manage an environmental engineering and consulting company in Florida. I am a Ph.D. chemist by training. The reason I share this is to establish the idea that I try to deal in facts and inf ...
Topics: business, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling (all these topics)

Smooth Operator Michael Kieschnick, president of Working Assets, answers readers' questions		13 Jul 2007	InterActivist
I have Working Assets for my long-distance service. The rate is great, you provide educational information on all manner of topics, have great customer service, and give a portion of your fees to charity. What is it that you are doing differently than other companies that allows you to spend money on social justice and still provide a quality product? -- Heidi Hunt, Topeka, Kan. Michael Kie ...
Topics: business, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

The Gift of Gab Michael Kieschnick, president of Working Assets, answers Grist's questions		09 Jul 2007	InterActivist
Michael Kieschnick. What work do you do? I am the president of Working Assets, a social-change company that uses the business of wireless and credit cards to achieve environmental and social progress. Over the years, we have also generated over $50 million in donations to progressive groups, many of them working for wonderful environmental causes. Our customers have also written, called, and em ...
Topics: business, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Notes from the Funderground Doug Koplow, subsidies researcher and founder of Earth Track, answers readers' questions		02 Feb 2007	InterActivist
Can you give examples of some of the most ludicrous subsidies you've encountered? -- Andrew B., Seattle, Wash. Doug Koplow, Earth Track. Two of the craziest subsidies I've seen happen to be out of Canada. The first involves subsidies to the hunting of baby harp seals, though the Canadian government argues these ended by 2001. The second is continuing support for asb ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Koplow and Robbers Doug Koplow, subsidies researcher and founder of Earth Track, answers Grist's questions		29 Jan 2007	InterActivist
Doug Koplow. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm the founder of Earth Track in Cambridge, Mass., which focuses on increasing visibility of environmentally harmful subsidies. This visibility comes through direct analysis, consolidation of research from around the world, and descriptive materials understandable by general audiences. Subsidies transfer valu ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Money Talks Ron Steenblik, sustainability advocate and subsidies scholar, answers readers' questions		08 Dec 2006	InterActivist
When is it OK to have subsidies, and how can they be structured so that they automatically go away when no longer productive? Isn't the real problem that subsidies get embedded and promoted by a powerful, market-dominating group that doesn't want to change, not the subsidies themselves? -- Rick Sellers, Paris, France Ron Steenblik, director of research for the Global Subsidies Init ...
Topics: business, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Going, Going, Ron Ron Steenblik, sustainability advocate and subsidies scholar, answers questions		04 Dec 2006	InterActivist
Ron Steenblik. What work do you do? I am the director of research for the Global Subsidies Initiative, an ambitious new project under the auspices of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. What does your organization do? The GSI was created to measure, analyze, and illuminate subsidies that are undermining sustainability, through targeted research and communications. We ...
Topics: business, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Oké-Dokey Jonathan Rosenthal, fair-trade fruit purveyor, answers readers' questions		13 Oct 2006	InterActivist
Don't you think it is strange that people will cheer your environmental efforts when you transport fruit a thousand miles? -- Brandon Fedor, Plano, Texas Jonathan Rosenthal, top banana at fair-trade fruit company Oké USA. Yes, I do. One of the interesting things about fair trade is that for many it becomes the solution. For me, fair trade is an opening -- a window into reassessing choices we make a ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Tricks of the Fair Trade Jonathan Rosenthal, fair-trade fruit purveyor, answers Grist's questions		09 Oct 2006	InterActivist
Jonathan Rosenthal. What work do you do? I am the top banana at Oké USA, a new fair-trade fruit company owned by farmers, fair-trade organizations, and nonprofits. What does your organization do? Oké USA is a new model of fair trade that links farmers, fair-trade organizations, and eaters. Farmers get a fair price, a fair share, and a fair say; eaters get a delicious banana at a fair pri ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Force of Gravitz Alisa Gravitz, director of Co-op America, answers readers' questions		22 Sep 2006	InterActivist
Alisa Gravitz, Co-op America. What is the most effective method you've found to show others that living "green" and sustainably is not only good for the world and its inhabitants, but economically feasible as well? -- Chris Rizzuto, Altamont, N.Y. The secret to saving money by going green is to think in categories, not in pieces. Piece thinking would be, "This organic-cotton, made- ...
Topics: business, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Flying the Co-op Alisa Gravitz, director of Co-op America, answers Grist's questions		18 Sep 2006	InterActivist
Alisa Gravitz. What work do you do? I have the great pleasure of serving as Co-op America's executive director. What does your organization do? Co-op America uses the power of the marketplace to solve social and environmental problems. Our name itself stands for the idea of people in their economic roles (as consumers, workers, investors, and business leaders) cooperating to create a better world. Co ...
Topics: business, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

The Seventh Habits of a Highly Effective Person Jeffrey Hollender, Seventh Generation president, answers readers' questions		16 Jun 2006	InterActivist

Topics: business, green cleaning, green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Talkin' Bout My Seventh Generation Jeffrey Hollender, Seventh Generation president, answers Grist's questions		12 Jun 2006	InterActivist

Topics: business, green cleaning, green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Mover and Shaffer Don Shaffer, local-biz promoter and green skateboard entrepreneur, answers readers' questions		09 Jun 2006	InterActivist

Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Skate of Grace Don Shaffer, local-biz promoter and green skateboard entrepreneur, answers Grist's questions		05 Jun 2006	InterActivist

Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Paper View David Ford, biz consultant and forest advocate, answers readers' questions		28 Apr 2006	InterActivist
David Ford, head of Metafore. What is the most effective way to convince a Fortune 500 CEO that eco-friendly practices are good for the corporation? -- Andrew Fridley, Portland, Ore. In my experience, the most effective approach is to demonstrate to the CEO the business value of changing practices. You have to build a case beyond just risk mitigation. To really get the CEO's attention, you need t ...
Topics: business, grassroots activism, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Have You Chatted With Ford Lately? David Ford, biz consultant and forest advocate, answers Grist's questions		24 Apr 2006	InterActivist
David Ford. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am the president and CEO of Metafore, an enterprise nonprofit based in Portland, Ore. How does it relate to the environment? We help businesses align their practices so they achieve positive social and environmental outcomes. In Metafore's view of the world, "Every business is in the forest business.&q ...
Topics: business, grassroots activism, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

All for One and One for All Terry Kellogg, director of 1% for the Planet, answers readers' questions		02 Dec 2005	InterActivist
Terry Kellogg, director of 1% for the Planet. How does your organization decide which groups will get the money you raise? -- Bernard Weintraub, Nyack, N.Y. Our members give directly to organizations that they choose from a list of environmental groups we maintain on our website. Our intent is not to be restrictive with the list or to identify only the "best" groups out t ...
Topics: business, innovation, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

The One-Percent Solution Terry Kellogg, director of 1% for the Planet, answers Grist's questions		28 Nov 2005	InterActivist
Terry Kellogg. What work do you do? I'm the executive director of 1% for the Planet. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? 1% is a rapidly growing network of companies (more than 200 with a few more every week) that commit to giving at least 1 percent of sales to environmental causes. In a perfect world, we'd motivate ...
Topics: business, innovation, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Tree Enterprise Nicole Rycroft, recycled-paper pusher, answers readers' questions		16 Sep 2005	InterActivist
Nicole Rycroft, campaigns director for Markets Initiative. Is there a similar organization to Markets Initiative in the U.S.? -- Jerry Broadbent, Bucoda, Wash. There are a number of organizations that work to safeguard endangered forests by shifting U.S. market demand to more sustainable wood and paper products. Green Press Initiative is working with the U.S. book sector and Co-op America with the U. ...
Topics: business, Canada, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling, wilderness (all these topics)

Page of Enlightenment Nicole Rycroft, forest-friendly book publisher, answers Grist's questions		12 Sep 2005	InterActivist
Nicole Rycroft. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm the campaigns director for Markets Initiative. What does your organization do? We work to completely transform heavy paper-consuming industries in Canada (e.g., book, magazine, and newspaper sectors) -- to shift them away from papers originating from ancient or endangered forests and to reduce their overall paper ...
Topics: business, Canada, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling, wilderness (all these topics)

In Goodwin Company Neva Goodwin, ecological economist, answers readers' questions		20 May 2005	InterActivist
Neva Goodwin, Tufts University ecological economist. Would an effective movement to get people to consume less really cause our economy to go into a tailspin? If it wouldn't, how do we convince those who are so concerned about stimulating the economy? If it would, what's the sustainable answer? -- Cathy Turner, Portland, Ore. This is a key issue. Right now, our economy is, indeed, dependent on what w ...
Topics: business, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

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