Archives for the ‘Business’ Category

Commentary: Standardized Reusable Shipping Containers Needed

By Wesley Joseph • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Business, Energy, General, Pollution, Recent Posts, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction, Workplace

Change over shipping containers to reusables? Why not?



Download Energy-Saving Software (Free, for Your PC)

By Wesley Joseph • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Business, Household, Recent Posts, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction, Technology, Uncategorized

How can you reduce your computing energy consumption, extend the life of your computer, and save up to $100 per year?



Weekly Green News Blurb | You Should Know Vol. 4

By Wesley Joseph • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: Business, Energy, News and Media, Politics, Pollution, Recent Posts, Resource Waste Reduction

Latest news related to your quest to improve your envirohuman impact! Highlights include: The Emergence of L.E.D. bulbs, Greener Hotel rooms, the costs of oil subsidies, and local newspapers finally going digital.



News Commentary: Forcing the Hand of Exxon Mobil

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 31st, 2008 • Category: Business, Climate Change, Recent Posts, Technology

I’ll tell you what you can do with all of that profit! You can put it where the sun shines!



Removing the Fossil Fuel Blinders

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 30th, 2008 • Category: Business, Climate Change, Energy, News and Media, Politics, Pollution, Recent Posts, Technology, Transportation

Getting past the lies about fossil fuels. It’s a complicated topic so let’s try to get some facts straight.



Commentary: Get a Chief Sustainability Officer

By Wesley Joseph • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: Business, Recent Posts

Some companies have taken a huge step by creating the position for and hiring a Chief Sustainability Officer.



Reusable Paper: Disappearing Ink

By Matthew Philip • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Business, Resource Waste Reduction, Workplace

According to an article I recently found on Cnet.com, titled: New Way to Save Energy: Disappearing Ink, technology is currently being developed to create paper than can be reused instead of thrown away or recycled.
Ultimately, there is something to be said for being able to hold a piece of paper in your hand for viewing [...]



Is Marketing, “Green,” Okay?

By Wesley Joseph • May 14th, 2008 • Category: Business

In a word, “yes.”
But to some companies, “no.” What do I mean? It all depends upon the motive behind “being green,” or “appearing green.” Mind you, there’s nothing wrong with literally being greener so that a company gains the goodwill bought by also appearing green.
As a subject, there is no real problem [...]



Green Real Estate: Keeping Green Products on the Shelf

By Matthew Philip • May 6th, 2008 • Category: Business, Products and Shopping

If you haven’t already noticed, more and more of your favorite local, corporately owned stores are carrying an increasing number of “green” products made by various green manufacturers. Everyone from Home Depot and Pick ‘n Save to Walgreen’s and Bed, Bath, and Beyond has jumped on the horse that chains like Whole Foods have [...]



EPA Ousts Mary Gade

By Wesley Joseph • May 3rd, 2008 • Category: Business, Chemicals, News and Media, Politics, Pollution

Seemingly underreported, but what made front-page news on Friday’s (May 2, 2008) Chicago Tribune is a story about an EPA official who was told to resign or be fired. Read the entire story here.
The story begins:
SAGINAW, Mich. - The battle over dioxin contamination in this economically stressed region had been raging for years when [...]