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Kimberly-Clark Broadens Sustainability Efforts, Partners With Terracycle

I have to hand it to Kimberly-Clark. The bathroom tissue giant, which was attacked last winter by Greenpeace for its destructive tissue-sourcing habits, has made some serious strides in sustainability over the past year. First the ...READ»

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Clorox to Phase Out Deadly Chlorine Gas

Greenpeace gave Clorox a pat on the back today for phasing out the use of deadly chlorine gas for making bleach at its seven US plants. Not only is this move to safer chemical processes better for the environment, it lowers the ...READ»

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The Underwater Cabinet Meeting and 5 Other Global Warming PR Stunts

The Maldives government pulled the ultimate global warming PR stunt this past weekend when it held a cabinet meeting on the sea floor. The stunt, meant to highlight the issues facing the lowest-lying country on Earth, received ...READ»

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Are American Energy Companies Investing in a Bolivian Carbon Offset Scam?

Carbon offsets are often derided as a modern-day form of the Catholic indulgence. Pollute as much as you want, pay for someone else to offset your emissions, and feel good at the end of the day. But polluters might not feel so great ...READ»

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Apple Finally Reveals Exactly How Bad Its Computers Are for the Environment

Apple has never done particularly well in Greenpeace's quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics. In the most recent guide it ranked near the bottom, at number 11 out of 18 electronics manufacturers. The company has taken some steps ...READ»

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Green Economy Produces Jobs - But How Many?

It makes perfect sense that overhauling our economy to fight climate change will inevitably produce jobs. After all, someone has to manufacture, produce, sell, and maintain all those turbines, solar panels, electric cars, and fuel ...READ»

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Kimberly-Clark Gives in to Environmentalists, Agrees to Stop Destroying Forests

Greenpeace harassed Kimberly-Clark into submission by dispensing information on its practices, protesting at Kimberly-Clark buildings and at various events, sending over 30,000 emails, and persuading over 760 companies to stop buying from the tissue maker until it changed its policies.READ»

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Greenpeace Uses Design to Instigate Corporate Change. Will It Work?

Earlier today, Greenpeace activists stuck it to the man by painting the words "Hazardous Products" in non-toxic children's finger paint across an 11,500-square-foot swath on top of HP's global headquarters in Palo Alto, California. ...READ»

Greenpeace Attacks Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony
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Greenpeace Attacks Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony With Their Own Creepy Game Console Scraps

Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics produces a new series of incendiary videos to alert people about how the big video-game system makers need to do more to rid their consoles of toxic chemicals.READ»

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Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics: Nokia Is Tops, Nintendo Flops

How green is your favorite company's gadgets? Which products should you buy if you are eco-conscious. Once again, Greenpeace has rated the big electronic companies.READ»

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Greenpeace Ranks Sustainable Seafood in Grocery Stores, Wegmans Tops List

Greenpeace's third edition of the Carting Away the Oceans seafood sustainability scorecard brings some heartening news: over half of the leading U.S. supermarket chains have made progress in seafood sustainability. Many have ...READ»

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F-Gases Are a Major Global Warming Threat. What Can We Do to Stop Them?

Greenpeace branded F-gases (refrigerant chemicals) as "the worst greenhouse gases you've never heard of" long ago, but a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed that the ...READ»

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McDonald's 2009 Global Best of Green Report Fires Back At Critics--or Maybe Not

McDonald's has come under fire recently, with Greenpeace accusing the company of destroying rainforest lands and the UK Daily Mail claiming that the company is responsible for 29% of all take-out litter in the country. Now ...READ»

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Dell Bans Export of E-Waste to Developing Countries

Dell became the first major electronics manufacturer this morning to ban the export of electronic waste to developing countries. It's a practice that often leads to supposedly recycled e-waste being smashed, burned, and taken apart ...READ»

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Greenpeace Tissue Guide iPhone App Makes Paper Product Purchases Easy

Environmentally-friendly paper products are a surprisingly contentious subject, but Greenpeace's new tissue guide iPhone app makes the debate over which paper towel brand to buy much easier. The free app provides, ratings, ...READ»

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Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics: Nokia Shines, Dell Lags Behind

The theme of this quarter's Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics is toxic chemical bans, and some companies have risen up to the challenge significantly better than others. Greenpeace's quarterly ranking scores IT and consumer ...READ»

Forest Credits Would Crash The Price of Carbon, Greenpeace Says
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Forest Credits Could Crash The Price of Carbon, Greenpeace Says

Carbon cap-and-trade efforts are becoming one long chain of unintended consequences. To whit: Greenpeace released a report arguing that allowing official trade in carbon credits representing forest preservation would crash the price ...READ»

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To the Barricades - - With Ogden?

You know the agitators in any revolution always put up posters and banners to make their point to the public (and to anger the authorities too, of course!). In a Los Angeles suburb last week a dry cleaner named Ogden struck just ...READ»

Nintendo - Least Green Company

Greenpeace International released its latest 'Guide to Greener Gadgets' this week. Nintendo came in right at the bottom, with a score of just 0.8 points out of 10, scoring zero on all e-waste criteria. The quarterly guide ...READ»

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