Windvertising Enables Companies to Put Ads on Turbine Blades
Are you looking for a creative way to advertise your business? How about using wind turbine blades to send your message? That may be possible thanks to a company called WePOWER, which earlier this week launched its Windvertising media platform. Read More
H&M Boosts Organic Cotton Content
Clothing retailer H&M plans to increase its organic cotton use this year by 50 percent, starting with its latest spring line. Read More
CarbonFree Product Certification: Creating Brand Differentiation, Action on Global Warming
The CarbonFree label brings carbon neutrality, responsibility and action on global warming to the heart of a business, its products and customers. This can help increase sales, profits and the value of a brand. Read More
The Green Jobs Opportunity: State of Green Business Panel Discussion
The fourth panel of today’s State of Green Business forum looked at the role of companies and local governments in promoting green jobs. What is a green job? How can we train and promote green jobs and who should we look to for leadership? What is the demand for green jobs? And most importantly is all this talk just hype, or does it reflect a real hope for a greener future? Leaders from the Environmental Defense Fund, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and PG&E discuss with moderator Matthew Wheeland, Managing Editor of GreenBiz.com. Read More
The State of Green Business 2009: The Green Economy Gains Currency
In the first of a series of excerpts from our just-released State of Green Business 2009 report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com look at how 2008 impacted the growth of the green economy. Read More
KFC Switches from Cardboard to Paper Packaging
KFC has switched from cardboard to paper wrapping in an attempt to reduce packaging by 1,400 tons. Read More
New Belgium Brewing Co. Slashes Cardboard Packaging
The Colorado-based brewery is taking cardboard partitions out of most of its 12-packs, and earlier this month released its first sustainability report. Read More
A Green Action Plan for Existing Buildings
Businesses are usually focused on greening one, or just a few, buildings. But architects can help reduce the environmental impacts of clients' entire existing infrastructure. Here's how ... Read More
Sun Microsystems Opens a New Green Datacenter
Sun Microsystems cut the ribbon on its largest green IT project, a revamped and consolidated datacenter that is expected to slash electricity costs by $1 million a year, reduce CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons annually, shrink the company's carbon footprint by 6 percent and save 675,000 gallons of water each year. Read More
Cradle to Cradle Certification Now Available for Product Ingredients
MBDC, which administers Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certification for products, has developed a C2C certification for individual materials and ingredients in products. Read More