Archives for the ‘Business’ Category

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 [...]



Column: “Dumb as We Wanna Be”

By Wesley Joseph • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Business, Energy, Politics

Thomas Friedman, a columnist for the NY Times has taken a break from writing a book (he has been on leave from writing columns for many months).
It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to [...]



New Series: Green Earning Green

By Matthew Philip • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Business

Until recently, “Going Green” in corporate America meant one of two things: either a company listened to the Jiminy Cricket of its environmental conscience and accepted less than stellar returns on the investment or it had a CMO (that’s Chief Marketing Officer) interested in looking at the business through green colored glasses and spinning a [...]