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Food and Beverage Companies Need to Cut Carbon Emissions, or Else

Ariel Schwartz — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:41:19 -0400

Trucost, an environmental data provider, released a report revealing the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprints of S&P 500 companies in a number of sectors with the intention of helping said companies prepare for the cap-and-trade costs that could come if the Waxman-Markey climate change bill is passed.

National German Chocolate Cake Day

Fast Company Calendar — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:12:55 -0400

Cocktail-party factoid for the day: German chocolate cake--that messy and ridiculous pile of layer cake, coconut, and pecans slathered with caramel-infused goo--has nothing to do with Germany. It's actually named for Samuel German, an employee at Baker's Chocolate Company who, in 1852, invented a new kind of sweet baking chocolate.

World Food Business Summit Leaders Dish Future Trends

Theunis Bates — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:00:00 -0400

"You can't go into a supermarket and find a product that doesn't have a health claim on it. This makes the public confused about what to eat. At some point people will throw their hands up and say, 'We can't make any sense of this.'" -- Marion Nestle, NYU NUTRITION PROFESSOR

How Safe is Food Packaging?

Ariel Schwartz — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:55:51 -0400

After Nalgene was accused of putting Bisphenol A (BPA)--a chemical linked to breast cancer and early puberty-- in its water bottles, the embarrassed company quickly stopped using it. But Nalgene is far from the only company to use BPA in its products, and a new report from Green Century Capital Management and As You Sow proves that many companies still use BPA in product packaging despite knowledge of its health risks.

How TerraCycle Plans to Takeover the Garbage Industry

Kermit Pattison — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:15:10 -0400

Garbage in, garbage out? This old cliché may become obsolete as trash becomes the raw material of innovation and green business. Upcycling, or turning disposable items into new products, is becoming big business. The leading player in this growing industry is TerraCycle, which makes a variety of products from recycled material: fertilizers from worm poop, backpacks from juice pouches and reusable tote bags from plastic bags. Based in Trenton, New Jersey, the 60-person company had $8 million in sales last year and expects $15 million this year.