Posts Tagged ‘Offsets’

Boulder Chips Enters Compostable Bag Field

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 [...]

Product Review: HP Officejet Pro 8500 All-in-one

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 [...]

Impact of Climate Change Bill on Rural Farmers

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 [...]

House Passes Cap-and-Trade Bill

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

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 [...]

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