Tag: business
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Brad’s Raw Foods Founder Shares How His Kale Chips Landed on 7,000 Store Shelves
Brad Gruno lost a lot of money and confidence before he grew Brad’s Raw Foods into a business with products available in 7,000 stores. Before he began eating or selling kale chips and other vegetable-based snacks, Gruno was a victim of the telecoms crash of 2001. He escaped the ensuing depression and weight gain by taking…
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How Greener Practices Can Save Your Business Money
This is a guest post from blogger and friend of Our Green Directory, Elizabeth Reed. We have an open door policy for guest blogger. As long as it’s green, interesting and informative we’re happy to post. No one goes into business to lose money on purpose. As we live in the digital age, there are…
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Spanish Researchers Debunk Wind Energy Myth Showing Renewables Capable of Replacing Fossil Fuels
Paul Brown [caption id="attachment_309251" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: Shutterstock[/caption] One of the most oft-repeated arguments of the anti-wind lobby is that turbines produce electricity only intermittently, when there is enough wind to turn them. This, the wind critics argue, means that so much gas has to be burnt to provide a reliable back-up supply of…
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Stanford Professor on Letterman: Powering Entire World on Renewable Energy No Problem
A Stanford University professor used a late-night television appearance earlier this month to do more than just advocate renewable energy. Mark Jacobson suggested that the entire world could easily live off renewable energy. “There’s enough wind to power the entire world, for all purposes, around seven times over,” the professor of civil and environmental engineering…
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8 Governors Pledge 3.3M Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2025
A group of like-minded governors on both sides of the nation pledged this morning to get millions of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) on the country’s roads by 2025. Governors from eight states—California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—said they would do their part to encourage drivers to buy ZEVs to total 3.3…