From A Greener Apple, Steve Jobs’ official response to the uproar surrounding a campaign orchestrated by Green Peace: “Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products. Upon investigating Apple’s current practices and [...]
I think to help save the environment and make money is for big cities to get rid of meter parking, or instead of a buck an hour, make it $5 an hour. Then people would really start taking public transportation. Besides, if they have to pay extra for parking, people would spend less time and [...]
April 19, 2007 – 11:22 am
From The Greening of Wal-Mart Shoppers: “The world’s largest retailer is launching a Live Better Index to track customers’ purchases of five eco-friendly products: compact fluorescent light bulbs, organic milk, concentrated/reduced-packaging liquid laundry detergents, extended-life paper products and organic baby food. The idea is that the index will gauge Wal-Mart’s 180 million customers’ attitudes toward [...]
April 16, 2007 – 01:11 pm
From Thomas Friedman’s, eleven-page manifesto, The Power of Green: “A new green ideology, properly defined, has the power to mobilize liberals and conservatives, evangelicals and atheists, big business and environmentalists around an agenda that can both pull us together and propel us forward.” It’s a long ass article to read on the Web, I know, [...]
March 30, 2007 – 12:50 pm
From Bigelow Tea installs Solar Panels: “The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund announced that the Clean Energy Investment Committee has approved a grant of $777,000 to Bigelow Tea Company to defray approximately 55% of the cost of installing a 171-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system at the company’s Fairfield, Connecticut headquarters facility. The solar PV system will be mounted [...]
The Phoenix tells us what Boston will be like in 2106 if we do nothing to stop global warming: “Crossing into Back Bay, you choose your route carefully. Avoiding the streets that look more like Venetian canals, you stick to the ones that are merely pocked with gaping puddles. Boylston Street is in pretty good [...]
April 24, 2006 – 02:09 pm
“Microsoft installs Silicon Valley’s largest solar panel system at its Mountain View campus…Generating 480kW at peak capacity, this system is composed of 2,288 tiles that will supply enough energy to power nearly 500 homes.” I got this from the Great News Network. See? I told you there was good news out there.
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