Sustainable Business Practices

AUSTIN, Texas -- At its meeting on Dec. 15, the Austin City Council unanimously approved the Austin Resource Recovery Master Plan, a long-term plan for Austin Resource Recovery (formerly Solid Waste Services) t...

  By Beth Buczynsk. A recent poll found that 84 percent of Florida voters and 92 percent of Panhandle voters support a bill approved by a Senate committee that would ensure the BP oil spill fines...

      By Aisha O''brien Microsoft has quietly filed a patent for a wind-energy powered data center with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The design is essenti...

    By Kristina Chew  Thanks to the efforts of Care2 and Forest Ethics members, Chiquita will eliminate shipping its bananas with fuel from refineries from Canada’s Tar Sands. Along with Dol...

This Friday, the Obama administration has the historic opportunity to rein in a coal industry that has been allowed to pour toxic emissions like mercury, benzene and arsenic into our lives without limit. There&...

  By Dot Eco In today’s increasingly eco-conscious world, corporations have realized the importance of being “green.” As consumers become more educated about the environment, their shopping lists naturally...

  By Anthony Gucciardi Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with ...

  By Vivian Kuo, CNN (CNN) -- BP is accusing Halliburton of having "intentionally destroyed evidence" related to the explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that led to the worst o...

A new report titled “Bankrolling Climate Change” calls out the top 20 banks that are financing the dirty coal industry. (more…)...

  By Samantha Buechner and Michael Ellis On October 17, Newsweek released its third annual US and global Green Rankings. With a more durable methodology than in prior years, the rankings are beginning to i...