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I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl Super Bowl to plant trees and make other greenish efforts		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:50 AM on 07 Jan 2008 Photo: iStockphoto The National Football League has announced that it will plant trees and take other measures to offset some of the environmental impacts of the most hyped sporting event of the year. This year's Super Bowl will be held in Phoenix, Ariz., on Feb. 3. As part of the greening effort, the organizers have said they're planting 9,000 trees in the state, though o ...
Topics: business, green living, news, United States (all these topics)

Terra Cognita New company offers guilty motorists a way to offset emissions		20 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Terra Cognita New company offers guilty motorists a way to offset emissions In what is likely to be a growing trend, a private company is stepping in to make money by offering people a concrete way to take positive action against global warming. Benven LLC runs a program called TerraPass, which emerged from a classroom project at the Wharton School of Business. TerraPass sells carbon-dioxide re ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Dirty Pretty Things Two major cosmetic companies will omit harmful chemicals from products		18 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Dirty Pretty Things Two major cosmetic companies will omit harmful chemicals from products Revlon Inc. and L'Oreal USA have pledged to follow the European Union's relatively strict new anti-toxics rule in formulating their perfumes, hair dyes, makeup, and other products for sale in the U.S. The two companies were convinced to take the step by San Francisco's Breast Cancer Fund, which wants to shield American ...
Topics: business, green living, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Re-Bay eBay joins tech companies to launch electronics recycling program		07 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Re-Bay eBay joins tech companies to launch electronics recycling program Wondering what to do with that old Commodore 64 or Macintosh II gathering dust in your basement? According to an eBay survey, you're not alone -- some 50 percent of American households have unwanted PCs in storage. That's why the online auction giant has launched an electronics recycling program they call Rethink. In a par ...
Topics: business, green living, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Low Income, High Concept Low-income housing starts going eco-friendly		09 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Low Income, High Concept Low-income housing starts going eco-friendly Low-income housing, built in part with money from a special program of federal tax credits, has traditionally been low-cost, low-quality, and low-appeal. But the Enterprise Foundation is trying to change that with its Green Communities Initiative, investing $550 million over five years toward 8,500 units of affordable housing built to eco-friendly ...
Topics: business, green living, United States (all these topics)

Fond O' Honda Honda ranked as greenest automaker		07 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Fond O' Honda Honda ranked as greenest automaker Of the six largest automakers selling vehicles in the U.S., Honda is the greenest, according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Emissions from Honda's 2003 vehicles amounted to less than half the industry average. Nissan, which ranked second, was the most improved in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide. GM, ranked ...
Topics: business, green living, placemaking, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Bringing Shapeless Hemp Sweaters to Yuppies, at Last Whole Foods ponders move into organic clothing		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Bringing Shapeless Hemp Sweaters to Yuppies, at Last Whole Foods ponders move into organic clothing Have you ever felt chafed by the inconvenience of having to go one place for your bulk bulgur wheat and another for your Guatemalan organic cotton poncho? Well we've got good news: From here on in you can point your Lexus SUV in one direction only, to organic grocer Whole Foods. The retailer is ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, green living, United States (all these topics)

They've Been Working on the Railroad Recycled plastic railroad ties making inroads		19 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
They've Been Working on the Railroad Recycled plastic railroad ties making inroads There are nearly a billion wooden railroad ties holding together the railroads and subways of the U.S. That's a lot of wood, and thus a lot of trees. It's also a lot of creosote, a preservative chemical used on wood and deemed by the U.S. EPA "probably a human carcinogen." The cost of wood coupled ...
Topics: business, green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Hang Up and Hike Cell towers and phones are invading national parks		01 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Hang Up and Hike Cell towers and phones are invading national parks The swish of a breeze through the trees. The twittering of birds. The burbling of a brook. The ... opening notes of "U Can't Touch This"? Get used to it: Bleeping (and by that we mean fricking) cell phones are becoming more common in national parks, in part because cell companies are pushing to build towers there. For ...
Topics: business, green living, national parks, United States (all these topics)

Self-Destructive Behavior		23 May 2003	Daily Grist
Self-Destructive Behavior It sounds like a bad movie. Wait, it IS a bad movie. A bad DVD, to be precise -- at least from an environmental standpoint. A division of Walt Disney this August will begin selling DVDs that self-destruct after 48 hours, dubbed EZ-Ds. After an EZ-D's plastic packaging is opened and it's exposed to oxygen, the disk plays perfectly for 48 hours; then a chemical ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

The Strong and Short of It		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Strong and Short of It In a sign of increasing international concern about the ecological challenges posed by China, one of the world's most prominent greens has moved to Beijing and set up shop as an environmental consultant. For more than three decades, Canadian Maurice Strong has been a major player in global diplomacy, environmental and otherwise; earlier ...
Topics: Asia, business, China, green living, news, nuclear power, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Not Buying It It's time Americans hit the brakes on consumption	Eric Brown	08 Jan 2003	Soapbox
Every year, long before the last of the Halloween candy has been eaten, the drumbeat of holiday consumerism ushers in a long, wasteful, expensive march to New Year's. Now Holiday 2002 is finally over, and apparently it's just as well, because it turns out the season was a "failure." This information comes not from our friends, our family, or even our clergy, but from CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, ...
Topics: business, green living, holiday, United States (all these topics)

99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster For the first time in at least a decade, Congress is considering a national bottle bill, thanks to the efforts of Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), head of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Jeffords, who has battled for such a bottle bill for nearly 30 years, introduced a measure today that would shift the burden of recycling from states, cities, and consumer ...
Topics: business, green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Pax With the Devil		21 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Pax With the Devil Enron is seldom called "socially conscious" these days -- but that's how some investment companies routinely described the company in the not-too-distant past. The Pax World Balanced Fund, which promotes investing in good corporate citizens, and the Domini 400 Social Index and Calvert Social Index, which screen stocks ba ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living, India, United States, wind power (all these topics)

Buy, Buy, Miss American Pie Everything's changed, including zero-down financing	David Helvarg	14 Dec 2001	Soapbox
Hey fellow Americans, now that bio-terrorism, federalized airport security, and military star-chambers are becoming a reality, what do you plan to do? Me, I'm going to Disneyland. Okay, maybe not Disneyland, but I have been to New York, Montana, and Oregon recently -- and by plane. I'm also thinking about buying a new computer. I just don't think that makes me a patriot. Which is why ...
Topics: business, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Swedish Neatballs		15 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Swedish Neatballs Sweden is setting the world's standard for balancing economic growth with environmental protections, according to a report released last week by the Swiss-based World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Canadian International Development Research Center. The report used standards-of-living indicators such as quality of social services, ...
Topics: business, Dominican Republic, Finland, Germany, green living, Japan, Norway, Sweden, United States (all these topics)

Bad Company		10 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Bad Company Commercial recycling is hit or miss in the U.S. -- in some cases, for example, companies assume that recycling is occurring, but their cleaning companies are actually mixing recycling with garbage and throwing everything out as trash. From 35 to 45 percent of waste produced in the U.S. in 1999 was commercial, according to the U.S. EPA. Unlike in Europe, however, t ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Data Dump		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Data Dump State officials in the Pacific Northwest are searching for ways to reduce the amount of high-tech waste ending up in landfills. The waste in Oregon has more than doubled since 1998, and it can be nasty stuff -- computer monitors and televisions contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The officials are considering a "bottle bill&q ...
Topics: business, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

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