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ECOAID LEADS IN GREEN EDUCATION WITH NEW CARBON PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL

October 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

EcoAid™, the Valley’s leading pioneers in Green business as Arizona’s sole sustainability and carbon offsetting company, is excited to announce the creation of the nation’s first and only Carbon Professional School based right here in Phoenix. Climate change and Green industry practices are becoming critical factors in the US business economy, which requires the learning and understanding of new concepts. As Corporate America prepares itself for new, stricter carbon emissions regulations, and the American public begins to actively take a more vested interest in the effects of their lifestyle... [Read the full story]

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Abt Electronics: Best Practices Aligning Value with Values

March 10, 2010 · Comments Off

Read the full post at Triple Pundit. “No one will ever be mad at you for going green,” says Mike Abt, one of the four brothers who operate Abt Electronics, recognized as one of the nation’s largest consumer electronics merchant. “In the old days they might have thought of me as a hippie.” Mike’s quote captures the very essence of how going green has moved from outside the mainstream and into the income statement. Make no mistake, Abt Electronics is all about being price competitive in the cut-throat world of electronics retailing. Visit the website and... [Read the full story]

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Sustainable Home Building – Your Choice For Going Green

December 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By John Rault – Sustainable home building features the conservation of resources to a large degree. In a finite environment using resources efficiently is the hallmark of a new method of building your home. Using recycled products is part of this process. In building a home with a view to conserving energy, your house will be architecturally designed to reflect this. When your home is energy efficient, you’ll use less energy to power your house. Less energy means burning less finite fossil fuel. Therefore, you’ll be responsible for less carbon emissions into the environment.... [Read the full story]

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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, March 9

March 9, 2010 · Comments Off

Crack open a bottle of organic wine (no, it’s not too early) and dig into the day’s top green stories. Cool Green Morning is best paired with a full-bodied red (yes, this writer doesn’t know a thing about wine): How clean is “clean” coal, really? (Grist) A team of researchers says that consumers just aren’t interested in eco-friendly wine. (Journal Watch Online) This fall, Kentucky will become home to the greenest elementary school in all the land. (EcoGeek) In the wake of “ClimateGate,” science works on its defensive strategy. (dotEarth) New... [Read the full story]

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Eco Cars Top Detroit Auto Show

January 12, 2010 · Comments Off

Eco cars are dominating this year’s Detroit Auto Show with a number of new concept hybrids being launched by both large and small automakers. The Ford Fusion Hybrid won the 2010 North American Car of the Year, at this year’s 2010 North American International Auto Show, which opened for previews Monday, reports The Washington Post. Ford [...] Tags: carbon footprint, buy carbon credits, carbon offsetting, carbon offsets, carbon neutral, carbon neutrality, Carbon Credits Read More →

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Full Cost Analysis Needed on Green Power

February 18, 2010 · Comments Off

Full-cost analysis (FCA) examines both complete direct i.e. capital and operating costs and indirect i.e. environmental, health and social costs of private and public investments. FCA, many of whose methodologies are still being refined, is a much needed tool to enable companies and policymakers to accurately determine the true ROI of projects. It will hopefully end the free ride ‘enjoyed’ especially by highways, airports and sprawl. And it should be used to carefully evaluate the power generation choices available. It would be instructive to see the pricing at the end of the... [Read the full story]

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Greenpeace Loses Round Two in Tiff with Facebook

Read the full story at GreenerComputing. Glass houses, stones, etc. That’s the sort of lesson coming out from the latest round in the Greenpeace vs. Facebook skirmish currently afoot on the internet. To recap, briefly: In January, Facebook told the world it was opening a green data center, one that set a target...

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E-waste processor targets corporate tech lifecycle challenges

Read the full post at GreenTech Pastures. OK, my bad. I promised in a post about electronic waste a couple of weeks ago to write about a newish company that is getting more active with Fortune 500 type companies, and then promptly spaced out during a whirlwind of other things last week. So, here’s that promised...

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AT&T Moves To Add Better Eco Standards To Product Practices

Read the full post at EarthTechling. Packaging isn’t something we tend to pay a whole lot of attention to. After all, it’s what we’ve just purchased that excites us, right? But paying attention to packaging makes a lot of sense for any manufacturer interested in going green in a relatively painless way, and...

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Best Buy starts E-cycling program

Via Interior Design. Electronics giant Best Buy is attempting a new green feat by offering a recycling service for all customers, no matter where you bought your old electronics. Best Buy’s new campaign, part of their Greener Together™ program, pledges to safely dispose of electronics responsibly. They...

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Is There Any Hope for Greener Gadget Consumers?

Read the full post at Treehugger. Coming back from the Greener Gadgets conference late last week, one of the topics mentioned – which it was bound to be brought up at some point – is how it is possible to have a green gadget at all. Electronics are inherently an environmentally messy issue, from the...

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Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

Read the full story in the New York Times. A branch of psychology says that there is — and that ignoring it puts not just the planet but also our minds at risk. Tags: buy carbon credits, Carbon Credits, illinois carbon offsets, illinois carbon consultants, illinois carbon credits, carbon neutral,...

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ecoATM Answering the Call for Recycling Old Cell Phones

Read the full story in the San Diego Business Journal. When Mark Bowles, Michael Librizzi and Pieter Van Rooyen decided to try setting up automated kiosks where people can recycle old cell phones, they weren’t sure it would be a good business idea. “It was either the stupidest idea ever, or it’s brilliant,”...

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An Updated Benchmark for Corporate Green Chemistry Practices

Read the full story at GreenerDesign. [Editor's Note: This is a companion piece offering background details for our three-part series by Richard Liroff on corporate toxic footprints. Part one, focused on corporate commitment, is "How Companies Are Committing to Reduce Toxic Footprints;" part two, exploring ways...

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TerraCycle Turns Pens Into Trash Cans

Read the full story in GreenerDesign. Waste upcycler TerraCycle is making a push into creating more non-branded products with its new trashcans created with plastic from used writing items. TerraCycle has partnered with Paper Mate, Sharpie and EXPO to collect pens, markers, highlighters and other writing products and...

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Bayer’s Box-Free Bottles: Less Packaging, Different Materials

Read the full story in GreenerDesign. For close to a year, some Bayer and Aleve products have been sold as stand-alone bottles instead of bottles packaged inside boxes. While the change reduces the amount of paper that goes into the packaging as well as possible waste packaging, the new bottles’ caps and labels...

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Walmart’s Super-Sized Climate Commitment Focuses on Supply Chain

Read the full story at GreenBiz. [Editor's Note: For more on Walmart's climate announcement, see GreenBiz.com Senior Contributor Marc Gunther's post on the news and a post from Elizabeth Sturcken of Environmental Defense Fund.] The world’s largest retailer has set a new goal for shrinking its environmental...