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Fuel Cell Testing Firm Hydrogenics Sets IPO Terms
Canada's Hydrogenics Corp., whose test stations are used by General Motors Corp., the U.S. Army and others to measure fuel cell performance, set terms yesterday on an initial public offering. Read More
Tesco Predicts Organic Food Bonanza
Tesco Plc, the British food retailer, yesterday predicted its sales of organic food could reach a billion pounds annually in a few years as customers increasingly get a taste for "green" produce. Read More
Program Recycles Ceiling Tiles for Free
Armstrong World Industries, the world's largest manufacturer of acoustical ceilings, has announced a program that allows building owners to recycle their old ceiling tiles rather than dump them in landfills. Read More
Privileging the Present
Precautionary environmentalism for its own sake is irresponsible: it ignores important ethical, metaphysical, and religious questions. Read More
World's Largest Solar Parking Lot Opens in California
The electric utility in Sacramento has commissioned the largest parking lot solar system in the world. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has installed almost 14,000 solar photovoltaic modules in the main parking lot of the California State Fair. Read More
84 Lumber Co. to Phase Out Endangered Wood
84 Lumber Company, the nation's fourth-largest supplier of building materials, said Thursday it will phase out sales of products from endangered forests by the end of 2003. Read More
Guidance Manual Accounting and Financial Reporting for Environmental Costs and Liabilities
The United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) has published a manual to inform and give guidance on environmental accounting issues. Read More
Denmark Might Tax Packaging by Green Impacts
In what it claims to be a world first, the Danish environmental protection agency has proposed setting taxes on packaging materials based on their environmental impacts. Read More
Starbucks Backs Rainforest Protection Bean
Putting its money where your mouth is, Starbucks Coffee Co. announced this week that it has committed for a second year to Shade Grown Coffee, a bean grown, harvested, and processed under the auspices of Conservation International, a field-based organization that aims to protect earth's biologically rich areas and help local populations to improve their quality of life. Read More
Dell Japan Launches PC Recycling Program
Dell Computer in Japan last Wednesday launched a service to recycle corporate clients’ old computers, sparing the environment the toxic runoff associated with dumping such hardware into landfills. Read More