Author: The GU team

We’ve heard of vehicles powered using different fuels, even cooking oil, but this one could top any list of vehicles using an unusual fuel source. Pete Bethune of New Zealand and his wife mortgaged their house and gave up everything they had just to finance their project, the Earthrace, which runs on–get this–human fat! On…

And we don’t mean kitchen as an obtuse term for some other business practice. We mean kitchen as in the food preparation area. It looks like companies all around have turned their attention to their kitchens and cafeterias in an effort to be more environmentally friendly all around. With their broilers, fryers, refrigerators and ovens,…

BioDepot takes pride in being the first “green courier” franchise in the UK–and with good reason. The company sells cooking oil to commercial kitchens and collects them after use, and will then process the oil into biodiesel. BioDepot’s operationally and logistically sound, low carbon footprint eco-business model focuses on establishing bio-diesel production facilities at a…

Law firm Nixon Peabody is working hard to make sure its offices get LEED-certified, with its building in San Francisco already receiving the certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The firm is also implementing numerous changes to make their operations even greener, all the way down to choosing environmentally friendly cleaning substances. Whether a…

Everyone knows that businesses can be very un-green, not just because of their policies or their manufacturing arm, but also because of the day-to-day operations. Offices, the daily commute to work, power being used in the building–all those details can certainly bulk up a company’s carbon footprint. Not least of these details is the business…

Papemelroti manufactures reusable shopping bags, but I noticed they still provide plastic bags in their shops. Not very admirable, but they do have this note on their bags. I wonder if you can reuse the plastic bag until it’s all tattered and if they’ll accept it anyway.

Where does all our stuff come from? The Story of Stuff can open your eyes to how we all use up stuff. Pretty chilling, really. The movie is available as a 50 MB Quicktime file, so if it has affected you and made you think, better be sure to pass the word.

I got a Sun Jar as an early birthday gift earlier this month, which thrilled me no end because I’ve been coveting it since I saw it online. While it works perfectly–nice warm light for a few hours, gets its power from sunlight–the jar I got has proven to be of weak construction. The little…

From Environment America: “Absurd.” 1… “Disgraceful.” 2… “A mockery of law and sound public policy.” 3That’s what governors, attorneys general and members of Congress have had to say about the Bush administration’s decision to stop California and 17 other states from adopting global warming pollution-slashing Clean Cars programs. Even though cars and trucks are one…

New Year’s Eve is a few days away! It’s one of the days I look forward to the most, and not least because of the whole wipe-the-slate-clean-and-start-anew thing. Plus, it’s also probably the noisiest day in the Philippines, because everyone loves playing loud music, playing with noisemakers like trumpets, and, of course, breaking out the…