Project Aims for 'Water Wise' Hotels

A new partnership aims to help small businesses in the Wales tourism industry get a grip on their water woes. Read More

Maytag, Country Stars Share Stage on Conservation

Maytag Appliances has teamed with three of country music’s brightest singers -- Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans, and Jennifer Day -- to spread the word about the energy and water conservation benefits of high-efficiency appliances. The venue: a free, family concert series called Making Music Matter -- A Family Concert for Conservation. Read More

The Commoditization of Nature

There are those for whom nature, in at least some of its manifestations, is sacred, beyond price. Perhaps nowhere are these conflicts more apparent than in the global climate-change arena. Read More

Repsol YPF Joins Spanish Firms to Develop Biofuel

Spanish energy group Repsol YPF said yesterday it would seek to develop the use of farm waste as a fuel additive along with engineering firm Abengoa and sugar company Azucarera Ebro Agricolas. Read More

Malaysia Firm to Turn Waste into Fortune

Firmaplus, a Malaysia-based waste management and processing firm, is seeking to turn waste, including that discharged by the country's palm oil industry, into a fortune, its chief executive officer said yesterday. Charles Miller said Firmaplus would be the first firm in Asia to use fermentation technology to process organic waste into high protein animal feed and fertilizer. Read More

Toyota Says its Hybrid Prius Can Be Recycled

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. says its new Prius car will be recycled at the end of its useful life, underlining the environmental credentials of the electric/gasoline hybrid vehicle soon to hit Europe's roads. 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

Privileging the Present

Precautionary environmentalism for its own sake is irresponsible: it ignores important ethical, metaphysical, and religious questions. 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

Poplar Trees Could Reduce Water Pollution

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are studying the use of fast-growing poplar trees as an inexpensive tool to reduce water pollution. Read More