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This year’s winter Olympics saw the inauguration of Coke’s first zero waste carbon neutral sponsorship. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Athens, Coke’s sponsorship involved a modest recycling effort. At this year’s Vancouver Olympic Games, visitors to the …

Paul Hawken will provide his perspective on sustainability at a lecture and reception, which will be held on February 18 at 7:30-9 pm at the Gustavus Adolphus College Alumni Hall. …

About Paul: “he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. ”

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“Frog’s Leap Winery … in … scenic Napa Valley … getting attention as one of first wineries in the U.S to be sustainable … the winery’s motivation to be green, is as much about the bottom line as it is about the environment. Financial benefits include: a solar installation that is saving the vineyard $50,000 dollars a month on electric bills and dry farming techniques that bypass the need for costly irrigation”

Via:  SmartPlanet  LINK

Dow has products for many part of the green economy … from solar cells to batteries for electric cars to materials for solar cells.

"Dow … has embarked upon a multi-pronged strategy to capitalize on the demand for renewable energy and low-carbon alternatives to conventional products. … "

" … Dow’s secret [is] … Material science, i.e. membranes, coatings and other difficult-to-manufacture items that require a lot of chemical know-how. … will have a huge impact on … core green markets …"

" … Dow Corning … brought a silicone sealant originally devised for outer space solar panels to the conventional solar panel market … Dow signed a multimillion dollar, multi-year research alliance with Caltech to develop next generation solar technologies. …"

" … will sell copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar roofing tiles. Initial customers for the tiles, developed in conjunction with Global Solar, include mass market home builders Lennar and Pulte Homes."

" … is sponsoring Electric Avenue, the electric car hall at the North American International Auto Show  …. Dow Kokam, a joint venture, will also discuss batteries for electric cars at the show."

" … wants a larger part of the water purification and desalination market, buying Rohm & Haas to help it expand …"

Via:  Greentechmedia  LINK

"Our product range includes: Areca palm leaf plates, sugarcane fibre (bagasse) tableware, GM-free starch cutlery, plantation timber cutlery, PLA Bioplastic cups and containers, PLA coated coffee cups, paper straws, recycled napkins and lots more…" 

"Green Pack caters for a wide range of customers. From wholesalers, hospitality, general business users to schools, hospitals, airlines and the general public. We also specialise in green event supply from the small private event to the supply of large organised public events."

Via: greenpack LINK

The biggest challenge facing sustainable investing concerns the short-term orientation of investors. This short sightedness has significant negative repercussions for the global economy.Investors that forgo value creation in favor of short term earning…

Google has been at the forefront of energy efficiency quite some time.  Read on to learn more about Google current initiatives.

They also have lots of data and metrics to compare their energy use per Google search to other activities.

" … Data centers … account for most of Google’s energy needs … take our energy use seriously and, from the very beginning, Google has focused on designing systems that use as little energy as possible … operating what we believe to be the world’s most efficient data centers."

" … Google-designed data centers use about half the energy of a typical data center … energy used per Google search is very small … currently use about 1kJ (0.0003 kWh) of energy to answer the average query … roughly .2g of CO2 … often take the place of more carbon- and time-intensive activities, such as driving a car to a library or spending hours navigating shopping malls."

" … commitment to sustainability goes beyond just electricity and carbon … two Google facilities currently run on 100% recycled water, and by 2010 we expect recycled water to provide 80% of our total data center water consumption … share our own data center best practices and are encouraging our industry peers to do the same …"

" … if all data centers operated at the same efficiency as ours, the U.S. alone would save enough electricity to power every household within the city limits of Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C."

Via:  Google  LINK

COP15 convenes today in Copenhagen yet many are suspicious about the Canadian government’s sincerity on climate change management. Despite the Conservatives politically motivated adoption of absolute emission targets, cap-and-trade and if need be regul…

Greater supply chain efficiencies will drive increased sustainability performance while also contributing to profit margins. …

… “the 20 million or so people who produce and ship what we buy at the supermarket or the hardware store spew almost four times as much carbon dioxide into the air as all 300 million of us do together while at home. ” …

Via Forbes: Supply Chain

As world leaders prepare to convene in Pittsburgh for the latest round of G20 talks one business has found a unique way of promoting the green agenda.Technology publication TechBurger reports that a large commercial retail energy supplier, Pittsburgh-b…