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Starting With the End: Designing Products for Reuse
Milliken and Co. has long subscribed to the belief that waste and pollution cost money. Sustainability Director Bill Gregory speaks to GreenBiz Radio about how the carpet industry is joining together to improve carpet recycling and the ways in which end-of-life thinking has led to new products.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The drive to green mobility got a boost into the New Year with news of heightened efforts to produce fuels from a variety of waste products, word that Queen Elizabeth's Bentleys are going green and the launch of an electric vehicle charging network in Northern California.
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PURCHASE, N.Y. -- For the first time, PepsiCo has been able to compare year-by-year water, electricity and fuel use for its entire operations.
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SEOUL, -- The country hopes to spur job growth and boost its economy by pumping funds into a range of efforts, from making bike tracks to turning garbage into energy.
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BOYLSTON, Mass. -- A Massachusetts firm says its new device called the Vegawatt can help restaurants save money by converting used vegetable oil from fryers into fuel to produce electricity and hot water.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The 10 states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, plus Pennsylvania, will follow in California's footsteps to develop the standard to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions.
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MUMBAI, -- The world's cheapest car might be available with micro-hybrid technology, which cuts fuel use when vehicles idle.
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AUCKLAND, -- The airline conducted a two-hour flight using conventional jet fuel mixed with fuel based on the jatropha plant.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Environmental and energy groups, including the association that represents almost 70 percent of the country's utilities, made their pitch to Congress before year's end as talks accelerated about the stimulus package being crafted by the incoming administration.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- State-funded grants and loans for recycling and pollution prevention projects have been put on hold in Indiana, and New York could face a large reduction in its Environmental Protection Fund.
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-- In a year when the economy was all the business world could talk about, our readers dug in deep to stories about creating change, overhauling the ways business gets done, and yes, how going green can save big money.
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SALEM, Ore. and OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A new "E-Cycling" program passed into law in Oregon and Washington takes effect on New Year's Day, requiring electronics manufacturers to recycled old hardware, and promising to spur the growth of responsible e-waste disposal.
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Oakland, Calif. -- The drive to create communities that balance environmental, economic and social responsibilities through planned development is growing as shown by projects in Texas, Georgia and Tennessee.
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-- In December 2008, GreenBiz.com Executive Editor Joel Makower talked with IBM Corporation's Rich Lechner, Vice President of Energy & Environment, and John Kennedy, Vice President of Integrated Marketing Communications, about the company's "Smarter Planet" advertising campaign.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Twenty grants are being given to increase the amount and quality of recycled materials, create jobs and provide more recycled-content products and packaging.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Companies and coalitions big and not-so-big have made the ranks of most notorious "green" campaigns in the year-end list from National Public Radio's Greenwash Brigade.
