As it turns out, SunChips wasn’t the only snack brand to release a compostable bag this year. With minimal fanfare as compared to SunChips, Colorado-based Boulder Canyon Foods also moved to a compostable bag this past Earth Day. Noticeably different than the “loud” bag from SunChips, Boulder Chips’ compostable bag looks and feels the same [...]
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Boulder Chips Enters Compostable Bag Field
May 13th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Products, Recylcing, Sustainability 
Tags: Colorado, Composting, Offsets, Regenerative Economy 
View CommentsProduct Review: HP Officejet Pro 8500 All-in-one
October 3rd, 2009 Eric Wilson Earlier this week I purchased a Hewlett-Packard Printer (HP Officejet Pro 8500). After seeing HP receive the number one ranking in Newsweek’s inaugural Greenest Big Companies in America issue, combined with an instant $50 rebate offered by HP toward this model when recycling an older printer (from any company) at Staples, I decided to take [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Products Tags: Energy Star, Green Product, Offsets, Product Review View CommentsImpact of Climate Change Bill on Rural Farmers
July 11th, 2009 Eric Wilson Over the past century, the number of Americans living on farms has fallen from nearly 40% to less than 2%. As large agribusiness and monoculture farms take over, smaller farmers have had difficulty finding ways to compete. Michael Pollan featured Polyface Farms in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his treatise on food. By making sure that the [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Green Economy Tags: Agriculture, Cap and Trade, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Colorado, Michael Pollan, Offsets View CommentsHouse Passes Cap-and-Trade Bill
June 29th, 2009 Justin Manger Last Friday, June 26th, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the “American Clean Energy and Security Act” (H.R. 2998). Though far from becoming law, the 219-212 vote in favor is the first step toward placing a cap on the amount of green house gases industry and businesses can emit. It also sets up a [...]
Part 2: New Belgium Brewery’s Sustainability Efforts
June 13th, 2009 Eric Wilson Thursday’s post about New Belgium and the triple bottom line provided background information on the brewery’s sustainability efforts. Today’s post focuses on their energy policy. As mentioned in an earlier post, New Belgium Brewery has an anaerobic digestor on their property. This piece of equipment cleanses water and produces methane as a by-product, which they then [...]
