SustainableBusiness.com goes through the process of selecting 20 top publicly traded companies each year. The goal is to showcase companies that have either made substantial progress toward driving sustainability through their business or are leading the way with a technology that can make a significant difference. Here’s this year’s winners.
To support the 13 elephants they’ve given sanctuary to, plus a large staff of trainers, a South African couple opened Camp Jabulani, an exclusive, luxury safari lodge that balances the impact of tourism with the demands of conservation.
There are few hidden chemical threats in a natural futon. A simple version is just puffy cotton or wool, sometimes certified organic, within a cover made of cotton or other material. Layering several futons on the floor and storing them in the closet can save space. You can also buy a wooden futon frame, which gives you a couch during the day and a bed at night.
Ghosts linger in Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish. Before you meet cancer survivor Ken Ford of Chalmette, you must first meet the ghosts. They come on wings of natural and man-made disasters. They slip in through the cracks of poverty. You can spot them in the worst manifestations of American culture. You hear their voices murmur from history, always challenging the irony of who gets to live, and die.
California lawmakers joined environmental groups last week in celebrating the passage of a landmark global warming bill designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The legislation caps California’s emissions at 1990 levels by 2020 (representing an estimated 25 percent overall reduction from current levels); establishes a mandatory emissions reduction reporting program to the state"s Air Resource Board; and establishes a "cap and trade" program allowing businesses to buy and sell emissions rights.
A coalition of environmental groups led by American Rivers and Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund has filed suit in federal court challenging a White House decision to lower protections for salmon and other fish in the re-licensing of 70 dams across the country. At issue is a loophole in the 2005 Energy Policy Act that allows dam operators to avoid implementing onerous and expensive wildlife protections that they deem too costly or that limit hydroelectric power production.
For those with chemical sensitivities, the home is sometimes anything but a refuge. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as formaldehyde can “off-gas” from carpets, wallpaper and paints, irritating lungs and promoting headaches and itchy eyes.
Climate change accelerates the spread of disease primarily because warmer global temperatures enlarge the geographic range in which disease-carrying animals, insects and microorganisms—as well as the germs and viruses they carry—can survive.
Organic food is firmly established as the fastest-growing market in the food industry, boasting annual growth of 20 to 24 percent for the past several years and sales projected to reach $32 billion by the year 2009. So it’s not surprising that we’re seeing a new trend: the organic frozen convenience meal. So how do five frozen lasagna entrees compare?
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Si se removieran las presas en el Pacífico Noroeste volvería el salmón que abundaba en esa zona a su abundancia original?</B>
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Es verdad que nada realmente puede biodegradarse en un basural?</B>
