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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Just Beyond the Parking Lot Wal-Mart gobbles up local produce		02 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:55 AM on 02 Jul 2008 You thought you took home a haul at the farmers market last week, but you've got nothin' on Wal-Mart. The big-box retailer has become the nation's largest buyer of local produce, planning to purchase and sell $400 million worth of locally grown fruits and veggies this year. Wal-Mart says it works with "hundreds" of individual farmers, and has 50 percent more partnerships with local growers t ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, local food, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

What I saw at the Summit Thoughts from the big organic confab in Boulder	Tom Philpott	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Attending last week's Organic Summit, held within the tasteful confines of the St. Julien Hotel and Spa in Boulder, was a very, well, organic experience. It started with the hotel itself. The St. Julien, a human-scale building right in downtown Boulder, exudes calm. The lobby, a light, airy space overlooking a sun-dappled garden with mountain views behind, practically echoes with a low and relaxing ohhhmmm. As far as accommodations, I get drowsy just thinking about the ...
Topics: greening biz operations, sustainable ag, organic food, food, business (all these topics)

Scrambling to Go Green Cadbury eggs will come with less packaging		19 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:16 AM on 19 Feb 2008 Cadbury Schweppes, the maker of the Easter season's omnipresent sugar-yolk-in-a-chocolate-shell, has unveiled an alleged "eco-egg." No, the goopy white innards aren't organic; no, the chocolate isn't fair trade. The "eco" aspect comes merely from the eggs being sold unboxed, reducing packaging waste. So which came first, the greenwashing or the egg? sources: The Guardian, BBC ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, greenwashing, news, waste (all these topics)

Gary Hirshberg Yogurt CEO blazes green path	David Roberts	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Check out Joel Makower on Gary Hirshberg, founder and head of Stonyfield Yogurt. Stonyfield was bought by French food conglomerate Danone last year, at which I point my kneejerk dirty hippie-ism kicked in and I assumed they'd sold out. Apparently not, though: All of which further empowered Hirshberg to pursue, and align, his dual missions of commerce and environmental sustainability. His $300 million-a-year company built with almost no traditional advertising ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Nipping Energy Use in the Spud Frito-Lay hopes to manufacture eco-friendly potato chips		15 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 3:31 PM on 15 Nov 2007 You know it's crunch time when a potato-chip factory goes green. A Frito-Lay factory in Arizona has plans to produce, yes, carbon-neutral potato chips: sliced, fried, seasoned, and bagged in a plant nearly entirely off-grid and powered with renewable fuels. The company's Casa Grande plant will make do in its desert locale by recycling water, and will advertise that it's using ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news (all these topics)

Udderly awesome Starbucks vows to make 100 percent of its milk rBGH-free	Glenn Hurowitz	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
If you haven't been ordering that double whipped Frappuccino at your local Starbucks with soy milk, you've likely been gulping down Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH). It makes cows produce more milk, but it's thought to increase the risk of breast, prostate, and colon cancer in humans (if only they could come up with something to make cows squirt machiatto directly from their udders). But now, after two years of pressure from the organization Food and Wate ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, organic food (all these topics)

We Like Piña Coladas (and Getting Caught in the Rain) Dole will make some tropical-fruit distribution carbon-neutral		21 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
We Like Piña Coladas (and Getting Caught in the Rain) Dole will make some tropical-fruit distribution carbon-neutral U.S. residents have a heckuva hard time finding a local pineapple (Hawaiians respectfully excluded, of course). But now you can nosh your tropical fruit with less guilt; Dole Food Co. has pledged to work toward offsetting 100 percent of the CO2 emissions that its subsidiary pro ...
Topics: business, carbon neutral, food, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

We like pina coladas (and getting caught in the rain) Dole will make some tropical-fruit distribution carbon-neutral	Grist	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill
U.S. residents have a heckuva hard time finding a local pineapple (Hawaiians respectfully excluded, of course). But now you can nosh your tropical fruit with less guilt; Dole Food has pledged to offset 100 percent of the CO2 emissions that come from growing bananas and pineapples in Costa Rica. Working with government agencies, the company plans to carbon-neutralize its entire supply chain, from growing the fruit to packing, transporting, and distributing it in North America a ...
Topics: business, carbon neutral, food, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

Putting the Source Before the Cart Regional grocery chains seek 'organic retailer' certification		03 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Putting the Source Before the Cart Regional grocery chains seek "organic retailer" certification In some mainstream grocery stores, organic options are shunted to the side, put in a sort of "Food for Freaks" section where only the bravest shoppers dare to tread. But increasingly, regional chains are getting certified as "organic retailers" ...
Topics: business, food, green living, greening biz operations, news, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: British supermarkets are going green But why?	Peter Madden	25 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. British supermarkets are now competing to go green. Two big retailers have just launched initiatives to tackle climate change. Marks & Spencer, which sells food and clothing to Britain's middle classes, promised this month to cut waste, sell fair-trade products, and make the company carbon neutral within five years. Environme ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, United Kingdom, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

McKibben on 'green' Wal-Mart Wal-Mart may sell organic, but it also thrives on ruined downtowns and long freight hauls.	Tom Philpott	21 Nov 2006	Gristmill
I've always been a bit appalled by the polite applause with which some enviros greet Wal-Mart's 'green' initiatives. Seems to me that the only way the company could really 'go green' would be to stop selling cheap plastic crap shipped in from halfway around the world in vast suburban megastores. In other words, completely change it's business model -- not, say, adopt 'green' building techniques for its appalling superstores, or haul mass-produced 'organic' food from Cal ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Beery, beery good High energy costs don't get in this brewery's way	Katharine Wroth	11 May 2005	Gristmill
Hey, I don't want to get a reputation. But here's more news from the beer-and-rising-energy-costs front: The New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colo., is hopping on alternative energy instead. To wit: The company uses methane captured from its wastewater to help power its facilities, and uses a biodiesel blend in its delivery trucks. No big surprise from an outfit whose employees voted, waaaay back in 1998, to make it the nation's first wind-powered brewer ...
Topics: business, energy, food, greening biz operations, renewable energy (all these topics)

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