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Greening Big Business: Confessions of a Radical Industrialist

Ray Anderson is known as ‘the greenest chief executive in America’ – but he wasn’t always that way. The founder and CEO of Interface Inc., a carpet tile company, found himself faced with giving a speech about his company’s approach to the environment in 1994 and it really made him think.
He told The New York [...]

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Smug Eco Shoppers More Likely to Cheat and Steal

You might think that because eco-conscious shoppers care about the earth, they also have strong morals. But according to a recent study, that isn’t true – in fact, greenies are more likely to cheat and steal.
The study, conducted by by Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong at the University of Toronto, found that “subjects who made [...]

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Best (Non)Advertisement Ever

Isn’t it nice to look up at a billboard, just once, to see that no one is trying to shove a product down your throat? A joy, indeed – and a nice thing to see at the outset of the holiday season, when, nearly 2 months from Christmas, we’re already being bombarded with “BUY ME!” [...]

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Bike to Berlin Brothel, Get a Discount

What’s more annoying than driving down to your local brothel only to find that there’s no parking available? It’s enough to make you stay home – and that’s exactly why Berlin’s Maison d’Envie, or House of Desire, is now offering discounts to clients who arrive on bicycles.
Thomas Goetz, the brothel’s owner, hopes that the discounts [...]

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Hot Spots for Green Jobs in Solar, Biofuels & More

Amid all the hubbub over Van Jones’ resignation and Obama’s focus on other issues, talk of green collar jobs in America has slowed down somewhat – but that doesn’t mean that those jobs aren’t out there. The clean-tech sector remains a bright spot in a dull economy, and a report released by Clean Edge research [...]

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Bottom of the Barrel: Newsweek’s Least Green Companies

Which of the S&P 500 companies are the least environmentally friendly? Newsweek unveiled its Green Rankings last week and while there has been a lot of discussion about the top 5, there’s another story to be told in the bottom 5.
Unsurprisingly, nearly all of the bottom-ranking companies on the Newsweek list are in the energy [...]

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