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Kohl's beats Wal-Mart Clean-up on aisle ... earth	Adam Browning	08 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Nevada Mined Newmont Mining Co. will undergo social-responsibility review		27 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Nevada Mined Newmont Mining Co. will undergo social-responsibility review It wasn't enough to be acquitted of pollutey wrongdoing in Indonesia; the world's largest gold-mining firm is begging for more green cred. This week, 91.6 percent of Newmont Mining Co.'s shareholders approved an independent review of the company's environmental and social impacts worldwide. Along with the high-profile trial in Indones ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, mining, news (all these topics)

Greenwashing in B.C. The Tyee busts Harper	David Roberts	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, Canada, energy, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Congress gets a sustainability complex Shooting for a green capitol	Kif Scheuer	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Congress, greening biz operations, greenwashing, politics (all these topics)

Lancome to make up for CO2 blemishes The cosmetics company will pay offsets through CarbonFund.	Elsa Mary	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, carbon neutral, fashion, green living, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Greening geopolitics Friedman in the NYT Magazine	Maywa Montenegro	15 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, energy, environmental movement, green living, greening biz operations, national security, politics (all these topics)

'Marketplace Money' features green career tips Check it out , starting tonight	Kevin Doyle	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, green jobs, greening biz operations (all these topics)

A remarkable consistency Corporatists overestimate environmental response costs every time	JMG	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Watching ahead of the curve New business and climate change video	Geoff Dabelko	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Greenpeace finds common ground with Inhofe Why are environmental activists so clueless at marketing climate change solutions?	Adam Stein	24 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, climate, greening biz operations, Greenpeace, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Dirty money	Adam Browning	23 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations (all these topics)

BusinessWeek: Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver Among bad deals, TerraPass's methane offset project?	Gar Lipow	22 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, carbon offsets, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Climate change winners and losers New articles take a look	David Roberts	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, climate, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Now If Only They'd Stop Serving Meat Restaurant biz hops onto the green bandwagon		08 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Now If Only They'd Stop Serving Meat Restaurant biz hops onto the green bandwagon Green ain't just the color of the broccoli anymore in the restaurant biz. And a good thing too: the average restaurant generates 50,000 pounds of waste (half of it food) and uses 300,000 gallons of water every year. Enter the Green Restaurant Association, which provides environmental assessments and "certifi ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

Circuit Training U.N. launches global partnership to combat unhealthy e-waste habits		08 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Circuit Training U.N. launches global partnership to combat unhealthy e-waste habits Faced with an annual global gadget toss approaching 40 million tons, the United Nations has launched a partnership to battle the world's heaps of e-waste and the environmental and health problems caused by impromptu e-recycling. Solving the E-Waste Problem, or StEP -- which counts governments, unive ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, news, toxics, United Nations, waste (all these topics)

Teller All Your Crazy Dreams Bank of America announces $20 billion green initiative		07 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Teller All Your Crazy Dreams Bank of America announces $20 billion green initiative In perhaps the largest initiative of its kind evah, Bank of America has announced a $20 billion investment in being all green and stuff over the next decade. The largest U.S. retail bank will use most of the moola to finance green-focused commercial clients, while also offering lower mortgage rates on energy-efficient homes, starting ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

BOA constructor Bank of America makes a $20 billion green pledge	Katharine Wroth	06 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Group Hug Leading tech competitors bury the hatchet to improve energy efficiency		28 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Group Hug Leading tech competitors bury the hatchet to improve energy efficiency Hold onto your geek hat: 11 leading tech companies have partnered to reduce the energy used by servers and data centers. The Green Grid -- made up of foes including Intel, IBM, Microsoft, AMD, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard -- thinks data-center efficiency "is the most significant issue fa ...
Topics: business, energy, energy efficiency, greening biz operations, news, tech (all these topics)

Swedening the Pot An interview with IKEA sustainability director Thomas Bergmark	David Roberts	27 Feb 2007	Main Dish
Green by design. Photo: IKEA Last week, IKEA U.S. announced a "bag the plastic bag" initiative: the retailer will charge a nickel for plastic bags to discourage their use, donating all revenue to the nonprofit conservation group American Forests. The store will also let shoppers walk away with one of its iconic reusable blue bags for 59 cents. Pleasant enough news, but it struc ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, greenish companies, interview, Sweden (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: British supermarkets are going green But why?	Peter Madden	25 Jan 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, United Kingdom, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Strike It Richard Richard Branson chats about embracing ethanol and slashing airplane emissions	Amanda Griscom Little	07 Dec 2006	Main Dish
Does a music mogul who signed the Rolling Stones and Janet Jackson have what it takes to make a pop star out of biofuels? Sir Richard. Earlier this fall, publicity-chasing British entrepreneur Richard Branson made a $3 billion bet that he could do just that -- and help solve the climate crisis to boot -- via Virgin Fuels, a new company in his wide-ranging Virgin Gr ...
Topics: biofuels, business, climate, energy, ethanol, greening biz operations, Richard Branson (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

Topics: Bill McKibben, business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Lexus Nexus A dispatch from an eco-showroom evening full of luxurious goods		16 Nov 2006	Dispatches
Emily Gertz is an environmental journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y., who has contributed to Grist, Plenty, WorldChanging, and other independent publications, and blogs at OneAtlantic.net. � Thursday, 16 Nov 2006 New York, N.Y. I want to believe. I want to believe that we can create an ecologically sustainable and socio-economically just future for the billions of biologically distinct individuals who comprise humanity ...
Topics: Dispatches, fashion, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, placemaking (all these topics)

Did You Mean: Solar Power? Google to install more than 9,000 photovoltaic panels at its HQ		17 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Did You Mean: Solar Power? Google to install more than 9,000 photovoltaic panels at its HQ Google Inc. is converting six buildings at its headquarters in the San Francisco Bay area to run on up to 30 percent solar power. The project, one of the largest solar endeavors undertaken by a U.S. company, will require installation of 9,212 solar panels, and sh ...
Topics: business, California, energy, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

'Hood Intentions LEED is expanding to neighborhoods, and Doug Farr is leading the way	Charles Shaw	12 Oct 2006	Main Dish
Doug Farr was heading into The Grind, a local fair-trade coffee spot in Chicago's swanky Lincoln Square neighborhood, when he ran into Peter Nicholson, the organizer of the city's monthly Green Drinks. The two well-heeled unofficial flag-wavers for the local green scene exchanged enthusiastic greetings, and began discussing the latest goings-on. Doug Farr. "Ugh. I'm really over ...
Topics: Chicago, consumerism, green living, greening biz operations, innovation, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

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