Can Going Green Make Wal-Mart Cool?

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…

Ambassador Says Equatorial Guinea Has Reached Major Development Goals

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…

About Those Green Jobs

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…

Shepherd prepares students for ‘green’ careers

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…