The growth of green
Globe and Mail Update September 20, 2007 at 9:03 AM EDT The recent surge in green companies is one of … Continue reading The growth of green
Category: Business and Economics
GE will offer credit card that helps users offset emissions
General Electric Co. is introducing a credit card with a rewards program that allows users to compensate their purchases with carbon offsets.
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Building Green
If your company’s environmental focus is still in the future tense ? as in ?going? green ? we believe you?re … Continue reading Building Green
What good is green if the poor go hungry?
ROME ? Rome’s obsession with food goes beyond the pizzerias and the trattorias that make it a gastronomical wonder. Appropriately, the city is also home to three United Nations food agencies whose job, ultimately, is to keep the undernourished fed. They wonder whether biofuel is an item that should be struck from the planet’s menu.
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Ethanol fuels global run-up in food prices
Food prices are heating up globally as soaring energy costs, wonky weather and an ethanol boom all combine to push grocery bills higher.
Canadian food prices are 3.1 per cent higher than a year ago, Statistics Canada said Wednesday, well ahead of last year’s rate of 2.4 per cent. Higher prices for meat and dairy are the main culprits, but the pickup in prices spills into everything from bread and applies to ice cream, eggs, jam and juice.
The reasons vary with each product, but one factor behind higher prices may be an ethanol boom south of the border, with Canadian chicken and dairy farmers saying they’re seeing higher feed prices.
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The Greens are right: Use economic clubs to battle climate change
Good for Canada’s Green Party. Last week, the Greens issued a policy to combat climate change that was the most arresting and innovative in Canada.
Parts of it were silly; all of it was ambitious. Predictably, it was largely ignored by the media. Who’s interested in policy anyway, especially from the country’s fifth party? Paris Hilton, murder trials and federal-provincial cockfights – now that’s news.
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Who’s the greenest of them all?
The computer business is one of the dirtiest around, but Hewlett-Packard is doing its best to reduce its environmental footprint
PAUL LIMA
From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail – June 18, 2007 at 12:19 PM EDT
Green skies a tall order
With their environmental reputations in tatters, airlines face another huge challenge Scott Deveau, Financial Post Published: Saturday, June 16, 2007 … Continue reading Green skies a tall order
Green Report: It’s so not cool
Chi-chi restaurants are now banning bottled water. How did the ubiquitous accessory become the latest environmental sin? Macleans.ca – Culture … Continue reading Green Report: It’s so not cool
The cost of going green in the oil patch
Macleans.ca – Business – Economy | The cost of going green in the oil patch A day after the federal … Continue reading The cost of going green in the oil patch
Corporate Canada has awakened to the huge benefits in going green
Macleans.ca – Business – Companies | Green Report: The colour of money Sitting on a plateau over the Red Deer … Continue reading Corporate Canada has awakened to the huge benefits in going green
The Wholly Sustainable Enterprise: A Lean, Green, Earning Machine
Deloitte Insights podcast The industrial revolution sparked a relationship between growth and profitability and the conversion of resources, namely human, … Continue reading The Wholly Sustainable Enterprise: A Lean, Green, Earning Machine