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Share on FacebookJanuary 25, 2013
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September 7, 2012
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Whole Foods Introduces Paper and Wood Gift Cards
While gift cards can be recycled, ensuring that every single gift card issued is recycled is nearly impossible. That’s why Whole Foods recently decided to do away with plastic gift cards all together – even their variety of 100 percent post-consumer plastic cards. Rather than issuing a piece of plastic into the waste cycle, Whole [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookAugust 1, 2012
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Facebook Releases Carbon Footprint, Complement to NRDC/Opower Social Energy App
Lauren Kubiak, Energy Fellow, New York
Today, Facebook released a never-before publicly disclosed figure: its carbon footprint. Amounting to 285,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2011, the analysis incorporates emissions f… Continue reading
June 21, 2012
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General Motors Adds 100th ‘Landfill-Free’ Facility
Automakers have a very real impact on the environment – from energy used in production to consumers using the fossil fuels that make those cars run. But General Motors is out to reduce its impact in a big way. The automaker recently added its one hundredth landfill-free facility – a Lansing, Michigan parts distribution center. [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookJune 21, 2012
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General Motors Adds 100th ‘Landfill-Free’ Facility
Automakers have a very real impact on the environment – from energy used in production to consumers using the fossil fuels that make those cars run. But General Motors is out to reduce its impact in a big way. The automaker recently added its one hundredth landfill-free facility – a Lansing, Michigan parts distribution center. [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookNovember 22, 2011
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San Fran Collects Millionth Ton of Food Scraps
San Francisco’s urban composting program reached a milestone Nov. 22, as Recology, the city’s solid waste and recycling collection company, picked up its millionth ton of food scraps – more than two times the weight of the Golden Gate Bridge. Since its launch in 1996, the City by the Bay’s compost program has saved 2.7 [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 4, 2011
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LA Needs to Find Sustainable Solution to Our Garbage Problem
Adrian Martinez, Project Attorney, Southern California Air Team, Santa Monica In an often polarizing time when industry associations and environmental groups are taking dramatically different positions on public policy issues, these groups appear align… Continue reading
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