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Terra Cognita
New company offers guilty motorists a way to offset emissions |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics) |
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Self-Destructive Behavior
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics) |
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Give a Hoot
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics) |
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Bad Company
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Data Dump
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23 Jul 2001 |
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| 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 ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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