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Disappearing Village to Exxon & Other Companies: This is Your Fault

The ocean is swallowing their home – and it’s all due to the greenhouse gases emitted by oil, power and coal companies. So, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina wants Exxon, BP and others to pay the price for their sacrifice.
As the city of Kivalina makes plans to move two miles away because of the [...]

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Coke’s Plant-Based Bottles Won’t Fix Bad Consumer Habits

In another minor effort to appease critics of wasteful, petroleum-based plastic bottles, Coca-Cola Co. has introduced a new packaging alternative made from 30% sugar cane-based materials. The other 70% is made from – you guessed it – petroleum-derived polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Coca-Cola says it plans to shift to this packaging for all beverages it produces, and [...]

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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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Is Big Organic the Enemy?

When it comes to organic food, it’s pretty amazing how many of the seemingly small brands at our local health food stores are actually owned by gigantic corporations. OrganicConsumers.org has a chart [PDF] that shows how various brands are associated with each other, something that many consumers aren’t thrilled with.
But is Big Organic the enemy? [...]

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Monsanto’s Greenwashing More Outrageous than Ever

It’s a dubious honor, but one that Monsanto doesn’t seem too eager to refuse. The world’s most hated corporation has been aggressively greenwashing its reputation for years and has recently stepped up its efforts to claim that its earth- and people-unfriendly practices are “sustainable”.
In fact, Monsanto’s website is packed full of sickeningly misleading claims about [...]

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Verizon Wireless Sponsors Big Coal Global Warming Denial Rally

Tsk, tsk. How can Verizon Wireless show intelligence and class by dropping its ads on Glenn Beck’s idiotic Fox show (for his comments about President Obama’s supposed ‘racism’) – and then turn around and give money to another conservative whackjob?
Verizon has become a sponsor for a global warming denial rally organized by none other than [...]

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