Did you know that each year Americans throw away more than 30 million tons of food waste and that this waste accounts for nearly a quarter of all landfill waste? Today I learned about a company that is trying to profit from this trend. EcoScraps makes organic compost from food waste that they collect for […]
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The following is a guest post by Kristie Lewis. There has been a push over the past five years by consumers looking for more sustainable, eco-friendly products and business practices. Some of the resulting business has been, unfortunately, based on the same profit-first mindset, where consumers are peddled “green-washed” products that falsely claim to be
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Forbes: More than two-thirds of brides-to-be want some part of the wedding to be “green.” And Kate Harrison, founder and CEO of Green Life Guides, is there to serve them. Video below.
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Tom Forrest, a former policeman, and owner of Wills Valley & Forrest Acre Farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania makes sauerkraut, the old fashioned way: “There’s not a whole lot of equipment that we use,” he explains of Wills Valley, his minimalist organic vegetable fermentation production. “We’re taking [the product] right out of the crock, putting it
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CNBC reports that Cascades Tissue Group has introduced a line of toilet paper called Moka that is made from recycled cardboard boxes. Cascades is betting American consumers have become so accustomed to seeing brown napkins and paper towels they associate these products with a positive environmental message. As a result, Cascades expects some consumers are
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CNN Money: It’s hard to imagine anything more innocuous than a lush suburban lawn. That’s what 63-year-old entrepreneur Jackson Madnick used to think — until a golf course killed his cat. His cat, Kitty, sickened and died 14 years ago. A groundskeeper at the nearby links told Madnick that many local animals had been dying
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BedBug Chasers provides a 100% green and chemical free system for eliminating bedbugs using heat. According to a press release they just sent over, they’re franchising. Franchise info is here. BedBug Chasers, a World Class provider of heat remediation services and manufacturer of US made bed bug heat remediation equipment is franchising its service business.
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io9: Brazil’s Santa Rita do Sapucaà prison has found a new source of alternative energy: its own prisoners. The prison has offered to shave time off of prisoners’ sentences if they’ll charge batteries using special bikes and their own two legs. Under the plan, prisoners can reduce their sentences by pedaling. For every sixteen hours
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With the start of a new year, it couldn’t hurt to take a few new steps with your company. One of those steps should include making your business more eco-friendly. 1. Recycle: According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for each pound of aluminum recovered, Americans save the energy resources necessary to generate roughly 7.5
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