Seven years ago, Wal-Mart began to undertake an unexpected transformation. The world’s largest retailer, so often criticized or sued for a variety of its labor and sourcing practices, partnered with some of its onetime critics — environmentalists — and embraced going green. Since then, the company has dramatically reduced its waste, cut down on packaging…
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Equatorial Guinea’s United Nations permanent Representative, Anatolio Ndong Mba, said last week that the country has achieved some of its major development goals by eradicating malaria in more than a third of the population, and making significant improvements in the country’s infrastructure, education and public health. Moving the country toward a…
BY PAULA SIROIS It’s OK. You can admit it. All things green and earth-friendly have swept the nation and pretty much everywhere you look, people are either talking about recycling or carrying those bags that we’re all supposed to use instead of paper or plastic. And here you are stuck in the middle. You recycle…
By Jonah Goldberg May 10, 2011, 10:15 am There’s a lot of chatter about the fact that GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt is backing off his obsession with green technology and climate change. In a speech at MIT recently he said: If I had one thing to do over again I would not have talked so much…
NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Right now, the federal government does not have the definition for a green job. In fact, it doesn’t even count them. So why does he keep talking about them? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is where the jobs of the future are in. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)…
May 16, 2011 · By Cecelia Mason Shepherd University Dr. Ed Snyder, chair of the Institute of Environmental and Physical Sciences and professor of environmental studies at Shepherd University, helps a student. Wind turbines are springing up all over West Virginia and renewable energy is predicted to be a growth industry so Shepherd University’s Institute for Environmental and Physical…