The Home Depot Foundation helps build greener communities in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Planters sponsors peanut-shaped groves to create community gardens on disused urban plots. Kraft Foods‘ contribution to greener communities, through the home farming initiative of its Triscuit brand, is working with the nonprofit group Urban Farming to bring farm projects to U.S. cities. Triscuit began its home…
A battle is looming over proposals to construct coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest, the Obama administration’s leases of large tracts in the West for coal mining, and the important questions that these issues have raised about the use of coal in the United States. The Center for American Progress (CAP) released a report on…
Garnier, a hair-care brand made by L’Oreal, is reducing the amount of landfill waste generated by its products by partnering with TerraCycle to turn its packaging into playground equipment. Hard to believe, but they say personal care and beauty products account for one-third of all landfill waste. Garnier aims to divert a significant portion of its…
Its gas mileage of nearly 100 miles per gallon and parts made from recycled materials, including home appliances and plastic bottles, landed the 2011 Nissan Leaf at the top of Kelley Blue Book‘s Top 10 Green Cars for 2011 list. The editors from Kelley Blue Book’s kbb.com website named the 2011 Chevy Volt (below) to…
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