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Doing Well by Doing Good: Social Entrepreneurism

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Posted by stevegh   
Monday, 08 September 2008
A business class in California helps a US entrepreneur bring peanut paste to Haiti's hungry kids. This is an example of the small ventures that can be scaled up to sustainability. But it isn't easy. (The Christian Science Monitor has the story)
 

HP Ships PCs in Fabric Bags to Win Green Packaging Contest

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Posted by geri   
Friday, 05 September 2008
dell-fabric-packaging.jpgA Hewlett-Packard laptop computer that's packaged in a recycled bag rather than a box has won a contest for less wasteful packaging. The winner of Walmart's Home Entertainment Design Challenge is the Pavilion dv6929 Entertainment Notebook that cuts product packaging by 97 percen, which not only conserves fuel but also reduces CO2 emissions by removing the equivalent of one out of every four trucks previously needed to deliver the notebooks to Walmart stores and Sam's Club locations around the country.  
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Shareholders Vote for Climate Change Resolutions in Record Numbers

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Posted by geri   
Thursday, 04 September 2008
 2008 was a good year for enviros in the boardroom. A record 57 climate related shareholder resolutions were filed this year—a figure that has doubled over the past 5 years. Support for these measures averaged more than 23% among shareholders-- another all time high. (Environmental News Network)
 

Czech Firm Plans Giant Wind Farm

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Posted by Churchill   
Sunday, 31 August 2008
wind-turbines.jpgA Czech power firm is to build what it says will be Europe's largest onshore wind farm, in a 1.1 billion-euro project. Construction of the wind farm will start in September and it is due to begin operating in 2009. (Full story at BBC)
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Colombian Guerilla Faction Gives Up Arms

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Posted by Churchill   
Sunday, 31 August 2008

The last remaining 45 guerilla fighters of the Guevarista Revolutionary Army have handed over their weapons on August 21st. Peace Commisioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said, "We believe it is possible to negotiate with individual blocs and fronts and offer them a dignified way out." (BBC has the full story )

  

 
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