| more in the upstanding corporate citizenry department: |
[Jan. 11th, 2006|06:58 am] |
...from the whole fizzle to the fedxizzle!
Kevin at Unplugged Living has some more great green corporate news for y'all. It appears that FedEx Kinko's (which you may know as FedEx or as Kinkos or as NYSE: FDX, announced new renewable energy purchases at more than 100 locations nationwide, increasing its total green power commitment by 67.5 percent to an estimated 40 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year. Which will avert more than 26,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions each year. That's equivalent to the power used by over 3,900 U.S. households in a 12-month period. Already a leading green power purchaser, ((In 2005, FedEx unveiled California's largest corporate solar electric system at its hub at Oakland International Airport. Later that year, The United States EPA and the Department of Energy awarded the FedEx Express solar hub with The 2005 Green Power Leadership Award for green power purchasing)), FedEx Kinko's recently agreed to purchase 10.8 million kWh of Green-e(R) certified renewable energy certificates (RECs) for 88 of its locations in Southern California. The new purchase will provide 50 percent of the annual electricity consumption for those centers. Looks like new CEO Kenny May is continuing the awesome path cut out for him but ex CEO Gary Kusin. And we all say "Aiiiiiight!"
[press release available at CSRWire] |
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| Sad news from Hopland. very sad... |
[Jan. 11th, 2006|07:24 am] |
..but let's be sure: the phoenix rises from the ashes and flies like never before!
...more news from Kevin UPL, this time very sad news. It appears that last week Real Good's Solar Living Center got hit with a double-whammy. First it got flooded in the out-of-control rainstorms (worst in 50 years) turning their parking lot into a 10-foot deep pool and stranding the interns. Then a fire broke out in the interns’ geodesic dome. It burned to the ground after they had fled, causing us to lose valuable archive material from the sustainable living workshops, as well as all furniture and kitchen appliances.
A full list of all the damages and fundraising/volunteer clean-up registrations is available on the Solar Living site. If you live in California or even BC, please consider going there and pitching in, these guys are pretty amazing. If not, as you can see on their site, they are accepting donations. And i can tell you one thing for sure, these guys are resilient, they won't disappear. SolFest will happen again!
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| ..from the Goa shores.... some inspiration! |
[Jan. 11th, 2006|09:21 am] |
Mumbai brewmaster shows Italians how it's done
I found this story quite inspiring. It appears that Perses Bilimoria (as you might guess, the founder of the Cobra Brewery), was walking around on a beach in Goa a few years ago (goa chillin' you might say), and was disgusted by the trash strewn abut, most notably plastic bags... so he got a new mission! Worked his butt off researching, and found a manufacturer of bioplastics in Italy who's technology he had hoped to license. He did, although as you can read in the Mumbai Newsline report they laughed at him, feeling that it was hard enough to sell the stuff in the West, how easy would it be in India. But Mr. Bilmoria has proved them wrong. Even though it's a tough, selling bags for 4 rupees when stupid-plastic ones are only 1 rupee, he has found some niche markets, like hotels, who are willing to buy the more expensive (in the short term) bags! Way to go Mr. Cobra!!
((ok and like i have enough on my late already but I'm now hankering to get this info to the guy. I mean,if he's gotbeer waste.... he can make plastic without buying any more potato-starch!)) |
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| hot tip for me to follow... |
[Jan. 11th, 2006|09:31 am] |
...speaking of that beer waste technology
...going to have to do a lot more research on this one.... but i can smell it a mile away... Dr. Ozeki's Beer waste plastic is now being used for DoCoMo phones (seriously if you never been to asia DoCoMo phones make a Razor look like boring crap!) Here's the quote: "NTT DoCoMo and NEC developed a mobile phone using an environmentally friendly bioplastic material (called polylactide) for 75% of the surface of the 3G phone (announced December 13, 2005)." It's from Pamela Gordon, at EMSnow. I know Shuimadzu, they kick butt (especially when it comes to the beer-waste plastic)! How much you wanna bet that these DoCoMo's ain't Cargil NatureworksPLZZzzz? |
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