Six Years After Hurricane Katrina, Grassroots Organizations Lead Gulf Recovery
Community Leaders Across the Gulf Coast Call for National Support
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29, 2011 — Six years after Hurricane Katrina, poor and low-income residents, African-Americans, immigrants, indigenous populations, and other at-risk communities living along the Gulf Coast report that the…
U.S. Green Chamber Empowers Businesses to Be Sustainable and Successful
San Diego nonprofit expands to bring best practices in environmental and social responsibility to a national audience
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 22, 2011 — The Green Chamber of San Diego County today announced its move to become a national organization, now known as the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce (http:…
Gen7 Eco-Friendly Classrooms Become Nation’s First Modular Classrooms to Be CHPS(R) Verified
MANTECA, Calif., Feb. 8, 2011 — The first-ever Gen7 green classrooms, installed at Bolsa Knolls Middle School in Salinas, California, have become the nation’s first modular classrooms to receive Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS®) Verified recognition for New School…
EYEPOWER™ Solution Helps Customer Win Asia-Pacific’s ‘Most-Sustainable Hotel’ Title
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 4, 2011 — The Crowne Plaza Alice Springs won unanimous recognition as Asia-Pacific’s most environmentally sustainable hotel after installing an Energy Eye guestroom energy management system.
Awarded at the 2010 Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference (HICAP) in Hong…
Direct Buy Marine Announces Board of Directors
GREENEVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 1, 2011 — The new direct-to-consumer boating accessory company Direct Buy Marine has announced its Board of Directors.
Direct Buy Marine is unique in that it offers boating accessories below wholesale prices with an innovative sourcing and logistics strategy that inc…
Whole Foods Market to Carry the Multi-functional, Eco-friendly ‘GreenBox’ from ECOvention, LLC
NEW YORK, July 19, 2010 — ECOvention, LLC announced today that as of August 2010, more than 30 Whole Foods Market locations in the Rocky Mountain region will use the multi-functional, eco-friendly GreenBox to serve take-away customers at their brick-oven pizza counters.
Dubbed “the pizz…
First Expert-Led, Advanced Specialized Sustainability Certificate Course Available 100% Online from a Nationally Ranked University
TAMPA, Fla., April 20, 2010 — The University of San Francisco (USF) is proud to announce the launch of a new advanced specialized certificate, Corporate and En…
Computer Clicks Can Be Music to Ears of World’s Poor and Less Fortunate
LITTLETON, Colo., Jan. 5, 2010 — A program called The Footprints Network aggregates thousands of consumer micro donations made while conducting online transactions in order to help fund community development projects that fight poverty worldwide.
The global initiative was organized in 2004…
The Healthy Side (Salad): Lifestyle Foods Launches Four Side Salads Containing Under 150 Calories
YORK, Pa., Jan. 4, 2010 — Start this new year with a resolution that’s easy to keep. Making healthy food choices is often put on the back burner when life gets in the way. Lifestyle Foods makes it effortless by presenting a new line of side salads available, each under 150 calories. Geared towar…
Breakfast Anyone? Lifestyle Foods Launches Two Energizing Snacks Containing Under 200 Calories
YORK, Pa., July 8, 2009 — When the alarm clock is screaming and exhaustion kicks in, there is often little room for making sophisticated breakfast decisions. Leading a healthy lifestyle can be a struggle when you’re already running late for work and a donut or muffin is beckoning you on the ro…
