Busy Year for Shareholder Activism
This is a busy year for shareholder resolutions according to a report released by the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) and the Social Investment …
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U.S. Organic Standards are On Track
The new U.S. Organic Standards go into effect this October 21st. From that day on, agricultural products (production and handling facilities) can only be …
The State of Environment & Business
By Rona Fried, Ph.D.Steel, often thought of as the symbol of the Industrial Revolution, now carries a recycling symbol. More than half the steel produced today …
What's in a Word?
Visions of growth have to be smart and clean, instead of dumb and dirty, exhorts Murray Hogarth in this month's Ecos Insight
Should Business Be At the Heart of Development?
Business Partners for Development Tri-Sector Partnering is a new management tool that harnesses the strengths of the private sector, civil society and …
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Goes Solar
After Steve Strong, president of Solar Design Associates, showed IBEW Local 332’s building committee and the membership how quickly solar is expanding in …
State Tax Incentives Stimulate Energy Efficient Investments
Many states are filling in the gap left from weak federal incentives for energy efficiency investment. States offer sales tax waivers or income tax credits for …
Support Your Local Wet Cleaner
Dry cleaners are the single largest users of Perchloroethylene (Perc) – an organic solvent of known human toxicity and suspected carcinogen. It can cause …
Sustainable Community Guide
The Hockerton Housing Project is the UK’s first earth-sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development. The group now offers services to help …