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The Federal Network for Sustainability (FNS) is a new initiative to help agencies across the federal government implement sustainable practices. It functions as a trade group and consists of representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE), EPA, General Services Administration (GSA), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), National Park Service, U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy, Bonneville Power Administration, and NASA. There have been a number of attempts to direct the single largest purchaser of products and services in the world – the U.S. federal government – toward environmental purchasing. The Environmental Preferable Purchasing program launched in 1993 and President Clinton’s 1998 “Greening of Government” Executive Orders have met with only modest success. Recently, the EPA conducted a study to find out why. They found that surprisingly, federal employees do not perceive the programs as mandates because they were issued government-wide, rather than by top management in their own agencies. Also, few employees understand the “environmentally preferable purchasing” or how to do it. FNS hopes to rectify these problems. FNS has four initiatives slated for 2001-2002: 1. Electronic Products Stewardship: FNS is supporting EPA’s efforts to develop and promote electronic product stewardship initiatives. 2. Green power: promote the use […]
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What's the status of organic food certification is China?
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It's not hard to imagine why the U.S. Defense Department is the nation's largest energy user ( 1% of all energy) when their tanks get .56-mpg and aircraft get 17-feet-per-gallon. Amory Lovins tells us how they can root out waste, potentially saving us $10 billion a year.
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Beantrees, one of the few purely organic coffee companies, is positioned to rapidly expand the company as well as the organic coffee market. Coffee is a huge market - with equally huge environmental and social ramifications. Try a cup!
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Victory! Illegal Mahogany Logging Stopped in Brazil Amazon & Dutch banks pull out of palm oil plantations.
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The Alameda County Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California (see photo) will host the largest roof-top solar electric system in the U.S. (the fourth largest in the world). PowerLight Corporation will expand the Jails existing solar array from 640 kilowatts to 1.14 megawatts – to provide 30 percent of the facility’s power needs. Along with energy efficiency improvements, the system will save the county $400,000 the first year, and $15 million over its 25-year lifespan. [sorry this link is no longer available]— — —For the past seven years, Vestas Wind Systems (Denmark), the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, has owned a 40 percent stake in the second largest manufacturer, Gamesa Eolica (Spain). The companies have parted ways and Gamesa bought its shares back. Gamesa is also purchasing the Navarre government’s nine percent stake to buy back 100 percent of the company. Analysts say Gamesa’s plans to expand in the Danish company’s markets caused the rift. Will Vestas buy Enron Wind, the only U.S.-based manufacturer of utility-scale wind turbines? Vestas plans to begin manufacturing wind turbines in the U.S. if the U.S. Production Tax Credit (PTC) is extended. The company’s goal is to increase its world market share from 18 percent […]
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This month's Ecos Insight Column: Creating value is the most powerful driver for business action.
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EU Tax Reform Campaign Launches“Getting the Prices Right,” is a new 18-month campaign by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) to build broad support for environmental fiscal reform at both the EU and country levels. Its ambitious goals are :* a minimum 10 percent revenue-neutral shift from taxing labor to taxing natural resource use by 2010; * removal of all environmentally harmful subsidies by 2005; * financial incentives for environmental protection; and * stronger energy-efficiency policies. The EEB is also pushing for approval of the long-controversial minimum EU energy tax rates proposal. If the EU fails to reach agreement on energy tax rates, EEB Secretary-General John Hontelez said that countries should go forward on their own to coordinate environmental taxation outside EU structures. http://www.eeb.orghttp://www.ecotax.info: goes live January 1, 2002— — — OECD Releases U.S. Economic Survey, Urges Environmental TaxesThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) last week released its annual U.S. Economic Survey which concluded that the U.S. should implement environmental taxes to encourage citizens to reduce gasoline use and other carbon-emitting fuels. The authors recommend using the revenues to offset social and environmental costs from vehicle-use, including road maintenance, noise and pollution abatement, and automobile accident response. The OECD […]
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When Ford Motor Co. recalled 13 million Firestone tires last May, the company promised to recycle the tires rather than landfilling or burning them. Ford contracted with Recovery Technologies Group Inc. (Guttenburg, NJ) to recycle the tires. So far, RTC has turned 3.6 million of the recalled tires into 40 million tons of crumb rubber to be used in projects around the country like athletic fields, playgrounds and paving projects. 50 miles of road in Phoenix, Arizona is now paved with rubberized asphalt containing 1 million pounds of crumb rubber. Only four states — Arizona, California, Florida and Texas — use significant amounts of rubberized asphalt to pave roads, even though this could be a huge market. Byron Lord, deputy director of the office of pavement technology for the Federal Highway Administration, said Ford’s promotion of crumb rubber “will provide a boost to the technology as well as allow states to evaluate its value in asphalt pavements.” RTG’s Ford contract has also led to its expansion as a company, opening three new facilities since taking on the deal. Recycling contributes 2.7 percent to gross domestic productThis is what a recent National Recycling Coalition study found. Fiber, steel, plastic converters, and […]
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