Category: Green news

Do you want your own green home but don’t know where or how to start building it? How about trying to win one instead? HGTV is building its first green home in South Carolina, and anyone could get a chance to win it! Viewers can enter the contest from March 21 to May 9, 2008….

Christmas Day is over and a lot of people are starting to take down their trees. Even if you still have your tree up and don’t plan on disposing of it anytime soon, you should think about where you’ll be taking your tree when the season’s over. All over the United States, cities are offering…

We all know about computer companies like Dell and Apple taking back their products and recycling them for their customers. The old computers and other parts are taken apart, with still-functional portions being reused and what’s left and unusable being disposed of properly. Of course, it would be really nice if we get to see…

Laptops are starting to look even sharper and shinier these days, but Taiwan’s Asustek is looking to break away from that trend by coming up with a prototype laptop–one that is encased in bamboo. It’s quite a different but not unusual step to take in the field of more sustainable computer manufacturing; other companies have…

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.