Tag: Featured Business
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11 Governors Ask Congress to Extend Wind PTC
[caption id="attachment_311489" align="alignright" width="400"] Photo credit: Fresh Energy[/caption] A bipartisan group of governors is pushing for a multi-year extension of the soon-to-expire production tax credit (PTC) to provide more certainty to the wind industry. The governors of Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Washington each signed a letter…
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Apple Imagines You Charging Your iPhone, iPad or MacBook Directly From a Solar Panel
Recent moves by Apple Inc. show the company might be on the verge of offering customers a way to charge their iPhones, iPad, MacBooks and other devices by plugging in directly to solar panels. Apple filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Oct. 31, Power Management Systems for Accepting Adapter and Solar Power in Electronic Devices. The…
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Oliberté Becomes World’s First Fair Trade USA Certified Shoemaker
After hundreds of requirements and a merciless audit process, a Canadian company is the world’s first Fair Trade USA certified shoe retailer in the world. Oliberté, a Certified B Corp and 1% for the Planet member, with warehouses in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, earned the Fair Trade USA certification just in time for its fall and…
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Levi Strauss Furthers Commitment to Sustainability With Responsible Sourcing Process
Though Paul Dillinger knew he wanted to work in the fashion industry nearly 30 years ago when he was a teenager, he believes the industry needs more focus on sustainability. “The fashion cycle that seeks to reinvent itself every six months? It doesn’t ask, ‘How do we improve the lives of the people we touch?'”…
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World’s Richest Countries Spent $500 Billion on Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The nations with the biggest economies seem to spend the largest amounts on subsidies to fossil fuel companies. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that $523 billion in subsidies went to fossil fuel companies across the world in 2011, according to a report released today by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a global development think tank. G-20 countries,…