Kudos to those companies that incorporate environmental values into all levels of business, from the vision of their products through their methods of production. These innovative entrepreneurs are leading the way to a sustainable future… New Organics. This ubiquitous brand is in just about every grocery aisle. Storming mainstream shelves, New Organics introduced more than […]
Making Room on the Shelves for a New Generation of Greener Goods
In a Wave of Acquisitions, Natural Foods Companies Are Being Gobbled Up As corporations realize the valuable market niche and consumer loyalty of many natural brands, they have begun, quite literally, to gobble them up. In the last six months alone, General Mills acquired Small Planet Foods, which holds the organic Cascadian Farms and Muir […]
Green Groups Get Results From the Internet Recently, Naomi Van Tol created a small website to fight for a forest near Memphis, Tennessee. She never expected to get responses from Romania. “I've [also] had supportive e-mail from folks from Brazil, Denmark, and other countries,” she says, “in addition to many responses from people across the […]
Citizen Ralph Runs for Real in 2000 In 1996, when Ralph Nader made his first run for the Presidency under the banner of the Green Party, he had a hard time articulating the party's many-hued platform, preferring to stick with his tried-and-true message about the dangers of multinational corporations. This year, as he runs a […]
Making the Macaw Banditos an Offer They Can't Refuse In Bolivia's Llanos de Moxos region, a former wildlife trapper named Pocho shows off the delicate snare he devised to nab blue-throated macaws for the illegal pet trade. He points out the seven notches on its stem, one for each macaw caught with this snare. Today, […]
Finnish Environmentalists Work to Stop Relentless Old-Growth Logging By appearance and reputation, Finland is resplendent in its verdant natural beauty. A flat country with expansive marine clay plains, low plateaus and small hills, fully 76 percent of the nation is covered by dense forest and woodland areas. More than 180,000 sparkling lakes and nearly as […]
Growing a Green Business
If you are bothered by the smell of trace amounts of chlorine in your tap water, expose it in a clear, uncovered bottle to the sun’s rays for an hour and the smell will dissipate.
How to Avoid Fuming Fibers, Deceptive Stickers and Alien Mussels What are the toxic dangers of the carpet-cleaning chemical ethylene glycol monobutyl ether? —Roger Schatz, Chicago, IL Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, also known as 2-butoxyethanol, is the most toxic of the glycol ethers. It is a clear, syrupy liquid with a mild, rancid odor that […]
