published January 11, 2011 and has No Comments
All images from NikeBetterWorld.com Time was when it was difficult to write about Nike on TreeHugger without reminding everyone how blackened their ethical record was. Times have changed people. Being one of the biggest apparel companies in the world, whose mission is all about competitive excellence, it's clear they want to be the best. Long past playing catch up ...
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published January 10, 2011 and has No Comments
Barilla pasta will switch 45 percent of the eggs it uses to cage-free by the end of the year, according to the Humane Society. Barilla is the world's largest pasta maker, and the transition will make it the first pasta company to join the growing cage-free movement.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published January 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch Every year I'm saddened by the small size of the Sustainable Planet Zone at CES. I always hope that the next year, it'll be bigger as more companies creating greener innovations sign on to show off their wares. However, this year it seems to be even smaller than last year, with barely any booths at ...
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published January 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: loveearthinfo.com Two years ago, Walmart launched Love, Earth, a jewelry line that would increase the transparency of the industry. Love, Earth would meet a new level of environmental and human rights standards—from mine to factory, it was supposed to be a more responsible and traceable product. An investigation in Bolivia, where some of the factories are located, reports ...
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published January 2, 2011 and has No Comments
If you've seen the commercials that make up Chevron's new "We Agree" campaign , you might well be infuriated. Despite its refusal to take responsibility for dumping 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into the Ecuadorian Amazon in 1992, Chevron has a new self-image of a benevolent oil company. It supports small businesses, invests in renewable energy, fights AIDS, ...
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published December 31, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Elliot Brown via flickr Who said the U.S. has the most lawsuit-happy culture? The UK supermarket giant Sainsbury's was sued back in September for using too much packaging. The case was dropped about a month later, but that didn't stop the New York Times from writing a story about packaging
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published December 31, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: pencils of promise It's new year's eve, time to think about those resolutions for 2011. Some for you (diet? gym? less computer?) and some for others. Under that category there are so many worthy and important causes that one can donate to--here are just a few. Pencils of Promise, a non-profit group which works with communities in developing ...
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published December 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo by comedy_nose via Flickr Creative Commons Last May we heard that the European Union might require a universal charger for all cell phones, and last October we heard that just such a universal charger was devised , though would not be "forced" onto cell phone manufacturers. The idea is brilliant, though, since the... Read the full story on ...
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published December 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Ron Weaver, NSIDC One of a data center's biggest problems is keeping servers cool, and that's true even for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which offers data products to researchers and businesses about Arctic and Antarctic snow and ice. Of course, it doesn't want to be a contributor to the GHGs that speed up ...
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published December 21, 2010 and has No Comments
image: Jose Mesa / Creative Commons As 2010 comes to a close, the time for giving thanks for all those small green steps that we've collectively taken over the past twelve months now past by a couple weeks, ever media outlet is trying to make a bullet-pointed list of the year's high- and low-lights for easy consumption. Doing that ...
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