by Gil Friend | Jan 13, 2003 | Sustainability
“Ultra-green Seattle” sorts through recycling options [PlanetArk]: Fourteen years after setting an ambitious goal to recycle 60 percent of its garbage by 2008, ultra-environmentally conscious Seattle is wondering whether it can finish the job – and...
by Gil Friend | Jan 9, 2003 | Sustainability
More “greenest cities” Lhessemer adds to the list: And Chicago, too, I understand… Mayor Daley is behind it… he has a green roof on City Hall, 5 bungalows they’ve retrofitted according to green standards (to demonstrate the concepts to...
by Gil Friend | Jan 8, 2003 | Sustainability
Environment and Science: Danes Rebuke a ‘Skeptic’. A branch of the Danish Research Agency has concluded that the author of an upbeat analysis of environmental trends displayed “scientific dishonesty.” By Andrew C. Revkin. [New York Times:...
by Gil Friend | Jan 7, 2003 | Sustainability
Everybody wants to get into the act! [GreenClips]: CAN CLEVELAND BECOME THE COUNTRY’S GREEN CAPITAL? Cleveland is on the verge of reinventing itself as a haven of sustainability, and the region’s burgeoning environmental movement is intent on using green...
by Gil Friend | Jan 6, 2003 | Sustainability
Seeing the forest for the trees [PlanetArk] Home Depot adopts new wood purchasing policy Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. (HD.N) said it will only buy wood products from suppliers committed to environmentally friendly logging and lumber practices. The move...
by Gil Friend | Jan 3, 2003 | Sustainability
GE: 85 percent of GE Power Systems’ revenues from cleaner or Renewable Energy by the end of 2003 [Solar Access, via Gallon Environmental Letter]: By tapping into the Renewable Energy markets and finding ways to increase efficiencies of existing technologies,...
