Green or Not, Content Is King on Your Company Website
For sustainable-minded businesses as much as — if not more than — traditional companies, your website offers the fastest way to draw attention to your work and your products, and there are plenty of lessons green businesses can learn from the SEO successes of other firms.
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Green or Not, Content Is King on Your Company Website
SF Launches Database of Preferred Eco-Friendly Products
San Francisco’s Department of the Environment has finished on online catalog of products and services that meet the standards in the city’s preferred purchasing program.
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SF Launches Database of Preferred Eco-Friendly Products
Gender-Bending Chemical Detected in 91 Percent of Canadians
The industrial chemical Bisphenol A, which has been linked to developmental and reproductive problems and mimics estrogen, is present in roughly 91 percent of the Canadian population, particularly in teens aged 12 to 19.
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Gender-Bending Chemical Detected in 91 Percent of Canadians
GM’s $5M Jumpstart for Bright Automotive
Bright Automotive, spun off from Rocky Mountain Institute in 2008, now has bragging rights as the first investment of GM Ventures, LLC.
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GM’s $5M Jumpstart for Bright Automotive
Bartering System Aims to Help Small Green Businesses Beat Recession
The ‘Green America Exchange’ launched this week seeks to put trade on the front burner between small firms with excess supply of goods and services.
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Bartering System Aims to Help Small Green Businesses Beat Recession
bobble
It’s sexy, it’s cute; it’s popular to boot! It’s bobble ! Lately, we’re cheering about our bobbles and you will too.
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Just How Green Are Your Hiking Boots? Industry Aims to Find Out
It makes sense — and comes not a moment too soon — that the companies that sell outdoor apparel and equipment have come up with common standards to measure the environmental impact of their products.
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Just How Green Are Your Hiking Boots? Industry Aims to Find Out
where’s the beef?
Reducing the amount of meat you eat in a week can have a big Environmental impact. According to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the production of one calorie of animal protein requires more than ten times the fossil fuel input as a calorie of plant protein. In fact, more than 1/3 of all fossil fuels produced in the United States go toward animal agriculture.
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where’s the beef?
Appliance Makers Agree to Build Smarter, Energy-Sipping Products
Home appliance manufacturers agreed on Tuesday to new energy and water efficiency standards for washing machines, clothes dryers, refrigerators and dishwashers that will reduce the nation’s utility bills by billions of dollars.
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Appliance Makers Agree to Build Smarter, Energy-Sipping Products
Why Big Dams and Big Ag are Good for the Poor
John Briscoe, a Harvard professor and development expert with years of experience working in the developing world, believes that large scale dams and GMO foods can be good for poor countries.
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Why Big Dams and Big Ag are Good for the Poor