{Note to the reader: this is my entry into the UNEPâs World Environment Day (WED) blogging competition, addressing the 2012 theme: The Green Economy â Does It Include You? After considering many examples of who the âyouâ in the title could refer to, Iâve decided to hand over this blog entry to my GAIA (General
A recent Harvard Medical School study took a long look at the entire industrial coal process â extraction, transport, processing and combustion â crunched the numbers, and came up with a rather shocking tally:
âWe estimate that the life cycle effects of coal and the waste stream generated are costing the U.S. public a third to over one-half of a trillion dollars annually.â
Once, when I was in school, I was playing with a salt shaker and began wondering just where the salt came from and how it got here from wherever it was mined, processed, packaged and finally transported to my cafeteria table. I thought at the time that it would make an interesting book (that I
Since its inception in 2000, some 2500 companies from 60 countries have joined in on the Carbon Disclosure Project and begun reporting their estimated carbon emissions and other climate change related policies. This also provides a strong public relations incentive for said companies to set reduction targets and implement improvements such as stronger energy efficiency standards.
In what is being called the âthe most ambitious private sector drive yetâ to go green, Wal-Mart told hundreds of the chainâs top Chinese suppliers this week that the store intends to raise standards and âgreenâ its supply chain. [social_buttons]You read correctly. At this weekâs âsustainability summit,â in Beijing, Lee Scott, Wal-Martâs CEO, told top
