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As part of Blog Action Day 2010, I felt compelled to write about a subject near and dear to my heart: Pittsburgh’s three rivers. This summer Pittsburgh served as the host city for the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) World Environment Day. UNEP bestowed this honor on Pittsburgh for its story of transformation and its commitment [...]
Today is Blog Action Day, and Halosource is one company taking action to bring clean drinking water to developing countries around the world. Founded in 2002 in Seattle, Halosource has grown by focusing on providing their clean water technologies to emerging markets. In 2006, Halosource partnered with a domestic water purifying company in India. Two [...]
Back in May Google Inc. invested $38.8 million in two North Dakota wind farms. This was the company’s first investment in a utility-scale wind-energy project. Google’s green business operations manager, Rick Needham, said then that Google is “aiming to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy—in a way that makes good business sense, too.” Yesterday it [...]
In the world of sustainable business, the words “greenhouse gases” elicit shivers down the spine, but what are greenhouse gases, really? If you ask the average person, they’d say probably something like, “Uh, bad things in the atmosphere? Something about carbon dioxide?” If we’re going to try to reduce our carbon footprints (another way of [...]
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a pioneering corporate sustainability reporting standard that has emerged as the most important de facto CSR reporting framework, will open its first US office in New York City the organization announced in a press release. The Amsterdam-based organization will use its new North American shop to launch “Focal Point USA,” [...]
