HP Leads in PC Recycling

Hewlett-Packard Co. has been in the forefront of the movement to recycle old computers and has strategized to benefit from it.

By Jeanne Goddard

10 April 33 Views

New Technology Turns Garbage Into Gold

Imagine a machine that can turn almost anything into oil. Imagine that it uses natural processes like heat and pressure, and produces no pollution. Imagine recycling waste from landfills, refuse from poultry factories, sludge from city sewage, or even infectious medical waste. We now know it can be done.

By Jeanne Goddard

31 May 49 Views

Republicans and Democrats Moving in Tandem Against Greenhouse Gases in California

In California, where one-eighth of Americans reside, we have a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature moving in the same direction -- and with broad public support -- on the issue of Global Warming.

By Jeanne Goddard

18 April 38 Views

How Nike's Green Design Recycled 82 Million Plastic Bottles

Nike's World Cup jerseys for the 2010 South Africa games were made of 100 percent recycled polyester, with each jersey taking eight plastic bottles out of landfills. The net result of that one project alone was reusing 13 million plastic bottles, and showed what was possible with the company's new ethos.

By Jeanne Goddard

17 February 35 Views

KFC to Stop Using Palm Oil - Healthier Food, Less Deforestation

KFC restaurants in the UK and Ireland will stop using palm oil to fry its chicken beginning this month and reap a double benefit by reducing climate change and heart disease.

By Jeanne Goddard

09 April 40 Views

Biofuel Powers Two European Airlines

In two recent feasibility experiments, European airlines KLM and Thompson Airlines have integrated cooking oil-based biofuels into their passenger routes, in a 50-50 mixture with jet fuel.

By Jeanne Goddard

05 July 32 Views

Kohl's Department Stores Honored as Green Power Partner of the Year

Kohl's Department Stores has won its third Green Power Partner of the Year Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy for its extensive efforts at creating Earth-friendly stores and operations that focus on energy efficiency, renewable power, and LEED building standards.

By Jeanne Goddard

21 November 29 Views

This Package Could Help Amazon Use 200 Times Fewer Boxes

UK-based designer Yu-Chang Chou hopes to help stem the flow of single-use packages - like Amazon.com boxes - through a new design that can be reused 200 times. He calls it the Repack bag. Once the package is emptied, it can be folded and tossed in a nearby mailbox to return to the post office for someone else to buy and use.

By Jeanne Goddard

14 July 51 Views

Slowly, Asia's Factories Begin to Turn Green

Intel's new $1 billion chip factory in Vietnam, about 10 miles from downtown Ho Chi Minh City, embraces environmental and sustainability measures far beyond those required by Vietnam's laws. Intel didn't have to go to these lengths, but the motivation for these measures is simple, said the complex's general manager: "It turns out, what's good for the environment is also good for business."

By Jeanne Goddard

10 January 44 Views

Peace Corps Volunteers Use Chocolate To Lift Africans from Poverty

Africa produces 70% of the world's chocolate and 60% of the world's vanilla crop, yet the continent makes just 1% of finished chocolate bars, which leaves very little profit for the essential farming communities. Now, an innovative company started by former Peace Corps volunteers is disrupting that market spiral to make the world's best chocolate bars -- and make a difference -- in Madagascar.

By Jeanne Goddard

11 December 53 Views

Start-Up Wins $630,000 for Making Bio-Plastic Out of Greenhouse Gas

A young start-up called Mango Materials has won a Green Challenge prize of $630,000 for its plan to use bacteria to turn the most abundant organic compound on earth, methane, into a biodegradable material that would be a low cost substitute for plastic.

By Jeanne Goddard

26 September 37 Views

Postal Service Reduces Energy Use by 26%

Since 2003, the United States Postal Service has reduced its energy use by 26 percent. Energy efficiency improvements at the USPS's 33,000 buildings have saved enough energy to meet the power needs of 90,000 households for a year. In 2011, alone, the USPS saved $22 million with its 1 trillion BTU reduction in energy use.

By Jeanne Goddard

01 September 40 Views

Denmark's Near-Zero-Waste Wonder

The small city of Kalundborg, 64 miles west of Copenhagen, was the first municipality to have engineered a symbiotic relationship between all its industries so that the excess heat, water, waste and other resources leftover become feedstock for other industries and farms, creating a closed loop system.

By Jeanne Goddard

04 August 41 Views

China Airline Hails First Flight Powered by Discarded Cooking Oil

In a milestone Saturday for sustainable aviation, China became the latest nation to transport passengers on a commercial airline flight powered by used cooking oil.

By Jeanne Goddard

24 March 32 Views

3M Vows Not to Source From Deforested Areas, Ignore Human Rights

3M announced this week a new sourcing policy that ensures all the virgin wood fiber going into its paper-based products and packaging comes from sources that protect forests and respect human rights.

By Jeanne Goddard

07 March 34 Views