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Apple Looking at a Comprehensive Green Way
[caption id="attachment_6534" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A greener apple ..."][/caption] Gadget makers have often been accused of being wasteful and excessive, leading to giant carbon footprints. Organizations like Greenpeace have been very vocal of these practices and now even consumers are beginning to take notice. Apple, like other companies, has moved to reduce its carbon footprint, and has vowed to reduce it dramatically over ...
FedEx and UPS Battling For Green Rankings
FedEx and UPS are both major package carriers/shippers, and this time around they are not just battling for business share and growth, but also to beat the other in sustainability targets. Going green also makes business sense as a number of consumers and clients choose to go with the service offering a lower carbon footprint. To that end, both are vehemently trying ...
The ‘greenest’ development in Turkey coming up in Istanbul
The VARYAP Meridian Project, which was unveiled in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, recently has been described as Turkey’s “most green” development. A mixed-use, super-development which will house Istanbul’s new financial and business district, the project is located the Atasehir district.
It may take years for US policy on green jobs to be in place
Though alternative energy can provide jobs across many sectors in the United States economy, formulation of a policy in this regard may take many years to develop. State laws on “green” power and regional cap-and-trade schemes on greenhouse-gas have been instrumental in impelling local economies to start converting from plants based on fossil fuel to green jobs, US governors told Senate’s ...
Sears Tower, tallest building in the US, to go green
The Sears Tower in Chicago is to undergo a “green” change that will cost a cool $350 million. The plan is to make the 110-story office tower,the tallest building in the United States as well as in the Western Hemisphere at a height of 1,450 feet, “a beacon for environmentally sound space.” American Landmark Properties, which owns Sears Tower, expects to ...
Tokyo Says, “Companies will go green or else?”
Tokyo will soon require domestic electricity companies to buy surplus solar power generated by households at about twice the current price. The plan will come into effect as early as April the start of Japan's new fiscal year. Tokyo wants to promote solar power as part of Japan's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. "Japan has already led solar power technology in ...
Lost in Paris House, Blends With the Scenery
In case you liked the green wall in Madrid, here's something that breaks the conventionality. Blending with the trees and the nearby green, here's a creative design by Parisian-based architects from R&Sie Architects who turned a concrete house into a living home. Dubbed the Lost in Paris House, here's a 130 sqm structure has been covered with more than 1,200 ferns ...
Green Inspiration: Breathtaking Meadows
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Dare to trash it?"][/caption] Trying to educate or make people aware that we should be good stewards to our environment is not an easy task. I can't think of any good reason, but it's a fact. However, I'm trying to do as much as possible to change that. How? With images that will fuel your creative thinking ...
Dell Plans to Lower Packaging Waste by 10% Until 2012
Dell is trying to reduce the packaging waste by 10% in the next four years. Using green packages for their products - intensive recycling and sustainability programs, the company will help preserve "more than 150,000 trees" and should see a drop in costs by some $8.1 million. The effort is to integrate an "air-filled cushion technology and renewable materials including molded ...
5 Steps to Green Hosting
Jason Keath at "Jason Keath - Where Old Media Goes to Die" offered up his 5-step plan to "Green Hosting". Buy Your Own Offset Credits -Resources: How to buy carbon credits (Ehow.com) | Carbon credit price comparisons. Read Jason's tip. Use Hosting that Buys Credits - Jason's recomendation - One good option in this direction is Dreamhost. Use Hosting that Buys Green Energy ...
