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Beauty of the Beast Wal-Mart tightens safety standards for toxics in toys		14 May 2008	News
Posted at 7:55 AM on 14 May 2008 Wal-Mart, the world's largest toy retailer, has told its suite of suppliers that they must meet new safety standards for toxics in toys by later this year. Some 25 million toys were recalled by toy makers last year in the United States, many due to high lead levels. Wal-Mart's new standards apply to a range of toxics, including antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercur ...
Topics: business, news, toxics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Push the Plug Nissan wants to offer you an electric car by 2010		13 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:21 PM on 13 May 2008 Nissan wants to bring electric cars to the U.S. and Japan by 2010 and to the world by 2012, the automaker announced Tuesday. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn in 2005 called gas-electric hybrids "niche products," but he's changed his tune, declaring that his company is determined to demonstrate "zero-emission-vehicle leadership." While General Motors and Toyota also have plans to bring ele ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, news (all these topics)

BCause I Told You So Eco-parents unimpressed by 'green' Barbie accessories		12 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:09 PM on 12 May 2008 Barbie BCause, toymaker Mattel's attempt to appeal to the green-minded tyke, has turned out to be not so popular with green-minded parents. The line of patchwork-y Barbie accessories made from cast-off fabric has inspired a blogging backlash. "The eco-conscious young girls I know of steer clear of Barbie," wrote Jennifer Lance on blog Eco Child's Play. "Truly green families ...
Topics: business, green living, green products, greenwashing, news, parenting, recycling, shopping (all these topics)

For Whom the Dell Toils Chastised by bloggers, Dell aims to cut down on waste		09 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:33 PM on 09 May 2008 To paraphrase Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of loud, critical bloggers can change Dell's packaging M.O." OK, that's a bit of a stretch -- and we won't go so far as to say "Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." But photos published on the internet during Earth Week of a tiny flash drive arriving to a customer in a giant box provoked enough outc ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, progress, tech, waste (all these topics)

Five bucks a gallon? Goldman says oil 'likely' to hit $150-$200 by 2010	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill
Goldman Sachs' Arjun N. Murti said this in a May 5 report: The possibility of $150-$200 per barrel seems increasingly likely over the next 6-24 months, though predicting the ultimate peak in oil prices as well as the remaining duration of the upcycle remains a major uncertainty. That would mean gasoline prices of $5 to $6 a gallon. Unless, of course, we permanently suspend the gasoline tax, in which case gasoline prices would only be $5 to $6 a gallon. Why sho ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, oil (all these topics)

Straight as a circle Big Oil's crooked talk on profits	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill
Has the oil industry borrowed the (laughable) tagline of presidential candidate John McCain? As Fox Business reported last Friday: The American Petroleum Institute took out a full-page ad in USA Today, and other major media were tapped this week to provide 'straight talk on earnings.' The earnings that need 'straight talk': ExxonMobil's $11 billion quarterly profit, and Chevron's $5.2 billion quarterly profit. (Note to Big Oil: When Fox doesn't give your spin fav ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, John McCain, lying liars, oil (all these topics)

I smell a hedging strategy How much would you pay for cheap gas?	Sean Casten	07 May 2008	Gristmill
Suppose you're a commodity trader. Someone offers you a future contract to buy gasoline at $2.99/gallon for the next three years. If you think that you can sell that gasoline for more than that, you might think this is a license to print money, and would therefore pay for that privilege. Which raises the following questions: How much would you pay for that future 'strip'? Is the answer to Question 1 more or less than a Chrysler?
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, oil (all these topics)

Be Like Nike Big biz ranked on greenness		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:47 PM on 07 May 2008 Takeaways from a new ranking of eco-friendly practices in big biz: Consumer companies are getting greener, but there's plenty of ground to gain. In its second annual scorecard, nonprofit Climate Counts ranked 56 companies on their measurement, reduction, and disclosure of greenhouse gases. Eighty-four percent of the companies scored higher this year than they did in 2007, but the average score was still only 40 out of a p ...
Topics: business, climate, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, shopping (all these topics)

More anti-intellectualism from the Clinton camp	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
Cringe along with Terry McAuliffe, who explains why economists don't know nothin':
Topics: business, economy, energy, Hillary Clinton, oil, politics (all these topics)

RE: Turn on investments Finding jobs at the Ceres conference	Kevin Doyle	06 May 2008	Gristmill
Photo courtesy Cheryl Levine Last week, I attended the Ceres conference in Boston. My table was sitting down to lunch when the person next to me whispered, 'It's Al Gore!'Cool, sez I! We were already pretty excited about the prospect of hearing from Van Jones (president, Green for All), Theodore Roosevelt IV (managing director, Lehman Brothers), and Michael Eckhart (president, American Council on Renewable Energy). Having the Goracle drop in unannounced seemed like a pe ...
Topics: business, green jobs, greening biz operations, greenish companies, progress (all these topics)

Goodbye for Nau Eco-friendly outdoor-clothing company goes under		05 May 2008	News
Posted at 5:20 PM on 05 May 2008 Last year, Eric Brody of outdoor-apparel company Nau excitedly chatted with Grist readers about his new enterprise and its ambitious sustainability plans. This week, the company announced that it's closing its doors: "Just as we could not have predicted the sudden groundswell of environmental consciousness that blossomed at the time we launched our business, we did not foresee the current cri ...
Topics: business, fashion, greenish companies, news (all these topics)

The Best Defense An interview with Fred Krupp, author of Earth: The Sequel and president of EDF	David Roberts	05 May 2008	Grist Feature
Fred Krupp. Fred Krupp has been piloting Environmental Defense Fund since he left private law practice in 1984. It hasn't gone badly: Under Krupp's leadership, the group has become an influential player in the deepest halls of power, with an annual budget that's ballooned from $3 million to $71.8 million. A substantial measure of EDF's success and credibility stems fro ...
Topics: books, business, carbon trading, climate, economy, Environmental Defense Fund, interview (all these topics)

Follow the money Carbon costs and energy prices, NC edition	Sean Casten	04 May 2008	Gristmill
As the most ardent Gristophiles know, this site is hosting a lively debate over the degree to which prices imposed on carbon emissions will impact energy costs. To recap, if prices do impact costs, then a carbon tax provides an investment incentive. If they don't, then we need some carrots to go with the stick of a tax. Hot off the presses comes this bit of news from Greenwire ($ub req'd): Duke Energy Ohio is asking federal regulators to approve the transfer of its O ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

A Compact, With Less of the Devil Small cars gaining popularity in U.S. amid high fuel costs		02 May 2008	News
Posted at 9:48 AM on 02 May 2008 High gasoline prices and other economic woes have driven car-buyers in the U.S. to purchase smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles lately. Last month, sales of compact and subcompact cars made up about 20 percent of total sales; in the mid 1990s, small cars accounted for only about one in eight cars sold in the country. Sales of vehicles with four-cylinder engines also ou ...
Topics: business, cars, news, United States (all these topics)

When $10.9 billion is just not enough ExxonMobil's profits huge; shares fall anyway	Josh Dorner	02 May 2008	Gristmill
You know we're living in strange and perverse times when ExxonMobil can post a $10.9 billion quarterly profit and still fall short of expectations. This past quarter marked the second most profitable quarter ever for the most profitable company in the history of the world -- a 17 percent increase in year-on profits. And like its competitors at BP and Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon managed to increase its profits despite no increase in production. (Funny what happens when ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, business, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Thought of the day: Social engineering and climate chaos Social engineering can't be avoided; why make it benefit only the rich?	Gar Lipow	01 May 2008	Gristmill
There is passionate opposition in some circles to combining 'social engineering' with fighting climate chaos. But the fact is, an emissions cut is social engineering. To cut emissions, we are trying to make some of the biggest changes in individual and social behavior ever. Putting 100 percent of that change on the backs of ordinary people by giving away emissions permits that are then sold and incorporated into the prices of consumer goods is also social engineering -- so ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Greening the Green Private equity firm and green group partner up		01 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:06 PM on 01 May 2008 The Environmental Defense Fund has struck a first-of-its-kind "green portfolio" deal with gigantic private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. The partnership plans to develop tools to measure and improve the environmental performance of KKR'S U.S. companies, with metrics including energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, water consumption, and toxic waste. KKR has more than $185 bi ...
Topics: business, Environmental Defense Fund, greening biz operations, investing, news (all these topics)

Passing on taxes Empirical data and theory both show that emissions taxes get passed to consumers	Gar Lipow	01 May 2008	Gristmill
Sean asks, 'If you put a price on GHG emissions, will it raise the cost of energy?' and answers, 'Mostly, no.' I wish he were right, because I really dislike carbon taxes and was only gradually convinced to support them by overwhelming evidence. But pretty much every empirical study that has ever been done about sales tax and other broad-based taxes on gross revenue shows that such costs do get passed along. A fairly typical survey of such studies would be this artic ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Green strings Let's make all jobs greener with 'climate quality standards'	Guest author	01 May 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, which will hold its national conference May 7 and 8 near Baltimore. ----- 'Green my job.' As I track the emerging 'green jobs' debate about renewable energy, energy independence, and green pathways out of poverty, I am struck by how disconnected it seems from progressive tax policy. There are some large 'policy forks in the road' being taken, although environmentalists seem un ...
Topics: business, climate, green jobs, greening biz operations, Van Jones (all these topics)

One hand clapping Economic na�vete on carbon prices	Sean Casten	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill
If you put a price on GHG emissions, will it raise the cost of energy? That question goes to the core of carbon policy. Unfortunately, many people inside and outside the environmental community consistently get it wrong, with potentially disastrous results. Consider: if the answer is yes, then we don't need any incentives for GHG reduction. The costs of carbon-intensive energy will rise, giving we energy users the incentive they need to lower consumption. But if ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Aw, Shucks Food prices are high, and so are Big Ag's profits		30 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 30 Apr 2008 Food prices hitting you hard in the pocketbook? Agriculture giant Archer Daniels Midland feels for you, it really does -- but gee, its profits jumped 42 percent this quarter, so it can't really empathize. ADM's grain-processing division is doing lively business keeping up with the bumper corn crop. And, they'll have you know, high food prices are due to high oil prices, not to the ethanol push. Backing ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, business, energy, food, industrial ag, news (all these topics)

Word of Bronner Dr. Bronner's says competitors aren't really organic		29 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:53 PM on 29 Apr 2008 Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps has filed a lawsuit accusing competitors in the personal-care industry of falsely advertising products as organic. The word "organic" is not federally regulated for personal-care products. Dr. Bronner's, the soap company known for its basic ingredients and rambling messages, voluntarily follows the USDA organic standard for food, which requires 95 percent org ...
Topics: business, green living, green products, litigation, news (all these topics)

Markets vs. emission reductions Why secondary carbon markets should be minimized in climate legislation	Gar Lipow	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill
It is fine and necessary to put a price on carbon, via either a carbon tax or 100 percent auctioned cap-and-trade permits. But in the latter case, when those permits are not sold directly to polluters but are released into a secondary market (either via auctioning or, worse, via giveaways), those markets tend to prioritize maintaining their own existence over reducing emissions. In short, a price is fine; an actual market is not. Part of this is that creating such marke ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate (all these topics)

Green pay day Green-collar jobs are real	Anna Fahey	27 Apr 2008	Gristmill
There's lots of buzz about green-collar jobs these days (sort of like blue-collar jobs, but with a sustainable edge) -- whether you're listening to Obama, McCain, or Clinton; Gregoire, Kulongoski, or Schwarzenegger. You hear this kind of thing a lot: A study conducted by the RAND Corporation and the University of Tennessee found that producing 25 percent of all American energy fuel and electricity from renewables by the year 2025 would produce the following: '$700 billio ...
Topics: business, climate, economy, green jobs, renewable energy (all these topics)

Driven to change March small car sales up; SUV, truck sales down	Joseph Romm	26 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Is $3.25 to $3.50 a gallon the long-awaited for inflexion point for driving a shift in U.S. car-buying habits? Obviously we can't know for sure, but the Detroit News reported that 'cars outsold light trucks' in March. (One auto industry insider told me yesterday that this was only the second time that has ever happened in some two decades.) Yes, the recession no doubt had an impact on the sales of big, expensive vehicles. But since gasoline prices are going to mo ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, fuel efficiency, green living (all these topics)

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