published July 10, 2009 and has No Comments
We’ve previously mentioned innovative tent maker, NEMO Equipment,r for their recycled backpacking tent and bamboo tent poles. We also noted how they donated over 150 tents to Kashmiri earthquake victims. Now they are at it again with the donating thing. This time generously forking over $13,000 USD in backpacking and mountaineering tents to youth outdoor programs....
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published July 9, 2009 and has No Comments
We’ve long been a fan of the verve and social conscience shown by eco-apparel company, Nau . (see our archive of previous posts below) But they’re not content with just making stylish, well crafted, functional, outdoor clothing from responsible materials and donating 2% of sales to not-for-profits selected by customers. Now they want to give away $10,000 USD. However ...
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published July 6, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Johan Larsson Ask public sector IT professionals in Britain how they feel about the goals put in place to reach the government's Green ITC strategy - a goal of having a carbon-neutral IT sector by 2012 - and you're going to get a glass-half-empty response. 150 senior public sector IT managers were surveyed by Global Action Plan ...
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published July 3, 2009 and has No Comments
Dealing with your FICO score can sometimes make you see red, but the company is trying to throw in some green. They launched a Sustainable Enterprise Initiative in 2008, with the goal to reduce the company's IT energy use by 50% and paper consumption by 80% by 2010. They've already made some serious headway on that goal. ...
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published July 3, 2009 and has No Comments
The other week I was sitting in a medical waiting room reading, as you do, a copy of Reader Digest. There was an intriguing article about Jackie Heinricher, her Booshoot company, and the plan to bring large scale bamboo cultivation to North America. At the time I thought I should follow up on that story. So I was very ...
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published July 2, 2009 and has No Comments
Apple didn’t invent the mp3 player nor the smart phone, but they sure know how to bring to market versions of the genre that make people sit up and take notice. And such might be the case with Milkmuny. This new start-up business, from Portland, Oregon, sells a very funky origami-like wallet made of discarded milk and juice cartons. ...
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published July 1, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via Greenpeace HP, Lenovo and Dell are in the hot house with Greenpeace, who shows them as failing to make any real improvements since the last go-round on the group's greener electronics guide. They each get slapped on the wrist for backtracking on their commitments to eliminate PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants from their products by end ...
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published June 30, 2009 and has No Comments
Photos: Courtesy of Guayaki. Keeping native communities and woods untouched may seem like a beautiful idea, but it is -in most cases- an unrealistic goal. Many communities of indigenous people want to develop and grow, and work their lands. The real question is, then, Can that happen in a truly sustainable way? Is there a way for them to ...
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published June 29, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo Courtesy of Neatorama Next time you're home, look around your closet. Your attic. How many pairs of jeans do you have there, unworn for months, years, decades even? I have four. Aside from the ones you keep for "some day" when you're skinny again or returning to fat, which ones of those could go? And where should they ...
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published June 29, 2009 and has No Comments
The competition for the .eco top level domain registration is heating up. We recently talked about Big Room's push for their Dot Eco project , which is competing with the
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Competition for .eco Domain Heating Up (Video)
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