Since the first days of the green movement, consumers have been on the lookout for ways to save the planet while keeping their standard of luxury. Deirdre Wallace introduced such a way when she opened The Ambrose Hotel in Santa Monica, California in 2003. With 77 rooms, The Ambrose...
How can you clean up by riding the green wave? Rich Sootkoos' company, Reproduct, has created a greener alternative to recycled paper and is helping corporations create greener marketing materials, company reports, and greeting cards. Here he talks about building reuse into his products and garnering support from Microsoft execs,...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WE'VE I HEARD so much about green information technology' IT, initiatives recently you'd be forgiven for thinking that everybody had this under control. You might be surprised to learn that storage vendor ONStor found that 58 per cent of the companies they surveyed were either still...
Aveda's Green Science antiaging skin line is manufactured using 100 percent wind power, the formulas contain organic oils, and most of the packaging is made from recycled material. Plus, company research shows that after six weeks of use, the collection, including the Lifting Serum, right ($50; aveda.com), diminishes lines and...
You recycle your rubbish, grow your own veg and eat organic. But is keeping sheep to make a jumper a step too far? Sanjida O'Connell takes up the shears to decide for herself Lucy is looking at me out of the corner of one eye and...
Portland General Electric launched its demonstration project for plug-in hybrid cars on Tuesday with the unveiling of a new charging station design. The utility envisions a day when "the filling station of the future" will make refueling easy, affordable and clean for Oregon drivers, said PGE's...
A Pakistani garbage scavenger searches for recyclable items at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday. President Bush, who met with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the White House on Monday, pledged $115 million in food aid to Pakistan, including $42.5 million during the next nine...
Budget Waste Inc. (PINKSHEETS: BDGW) announcedtoday that it has secured the contract to supply portable sanitationservices to the Big Valley Jamboree for the third year in a row. This contract entails supply and servicing of over 270 portable toilets andrelated equipment for the 4 day event and is expected to...
Carlos E. Agüero, Chairman and CEO ofMetalico, Inc. (AMEX: MEA), will present at the 28th Annual Canaccord AdamsGlobal Growth Conference in Boston on August 13, 2008. Mr. Agüero'spresentation, which will begin at 11:00 a.m., will include a corporateoverview and growth strategies. Interested parties may access the presentation slides on...
TOMAHAWK, Wis. AP -- A storage tank explosion at a northern Wisconsin paper mill Tuesday killed three workers and injured a fourth, the company that owns the mill said. Packaging Corp. of America said in a news release that the three workers were fatally injured when a...
SOUTH SALT LAKE -- Residents here could be charged garbage collection fees for the first time ever. City officials have been thinking about instituting the fees since late May, when the City Council learned it would be forced to dip into reserves to cover $150,000 in expenses...
ECO International has Broadened the Benefits of Recycling by Acquiring the Inventory Retailer AuctionDrop [TM] Inc. VESTAL, N.Y. -- Businesses familiar with the benefits of recycling can glean even more from ECO International, LLC's acquisition of inventory retailer AuctionDrop[TM], effective June 16th 2008. The acquisition allows...
DULUTH, Ga. -- Nordson Corporation (Nasdaq: NDSN) today announced the addition of breakthrough EcoPattern[TM] technology to its highly successful PatternJet[TM] hot melt adhesive labeling system. Offering adhesive savings up to 90 percent, the EcoPattern technology allows bottlers who use the PatternJet system to gain better control of their materials and...
LAS VEGAS -- Blue Earth Solutions, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BESN) Receives contracts from Kenco Logistics Services www.kencogroup.com and UST Logistical Systems www.ustlogisticalsystems.com. Both companies provide logistic services for many industry-leading, Fortune 500 companies. James Cohen Jr., Vice President of Sales, was quoted, "With these two additional contracts,...
NaturalNano, Inc. (OTCBB: NNAN) (FWB: N3N), adeveloper of advanced nanomaterials, today announced that Noble Polymers, adivision of Cascade Engineering, has purchased the Company's innovative HNTmaterial to be used to produce ten tons of its nanocomposite, PleximerTM.Cascade Engineering is a multi-business manufacturer, marketing to avariety of industries such as automotive, commercial...
TORONTO, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Think Green Alliance is a community of businesses and organizations that are committed to environmentally-friendly and sustainable operations, technologies, services and products. Baudry CybernomicsR Corporation, a Green IT company based in Toronto, launched the Alliance to bring green businesses together to promote and...
LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Packaging Corporation of America (NYSE: PKG) reports that on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at approximately 1:30 pm CDT, an explosion occurred in a recycled fiber storage tank at its Tomahawk, Wisconsin paper mill which resulted in three fatalities. The three individuals were employees who were engaged...
FAIRFIELD, N.J., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Covanta Holding Corporation ("Covanta" or the "Company") reported financial results today for the three months ended June 30, 2008. Diluted earnings per share rose by 21% to $0.29 in the second quarter of 2008, up from $0.24 in the second quarter of...
St. Joseph Communications announced earlier today the launch of its industry-leading chain-of-custody program, ecomark, through which it will offer the benefits of the world's three leading forest management programs: Forest Stewardship Council FSC, Sustainable Forest Initiative® SFI and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest CertificationTM PEFC. "The ecomark program provides...
Green Energy Resources Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GRGR) plans three (3) new ports. Two of the ports are located in NewJersey, one in the Philadelphia vicinity, and the 3rd on Long Island, NY.The two New Jersey ports are expected to be operational within 90 days andthe Long Island, NY port, before...
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