I do’ to ‘I donate’: Couples recycle wedding food, flowers, attire
- Green Initiatives
- June 18, 2013
With the high cost of weddings, more brides are choosing to pay it forward and donate or recycle things from their wedding. Leftover food from weddings can be donated to local organizations by catering companies like Two Caterers. Organizations like Floranthropy and Random Acts of Flowers accept flower donations and re-purpose them into arrangements for
READ MOREWill Retailers Remove Hidden Toxins from Shelves?
- Green Initiatives
- April 30, 2013
In a new campaign called Mind the Store, the nation’s top ten retailers are being asked to move away from toxic chemicals as part of an effort to urge Congress to pass the Safe Chemicals Act. Care2, 4/24/2013
READ MOREWhole Foods, others to shun genetically modified seafood
- Green Initiatives
- March 27, 2013
Whole Foods Market Inc, Trader Joe's and other food retailers representing more than 2,000 U.S. stores have vowed not to sell genetically engineered seafood if it is approved in the United States, a new advocacy group said on Wednesday. Reuters, 3/20/2013
READ MOREFDA: New rules will make food safer
- Green Initiatives
- January 8, 2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens. Yahoo! News, 1/5/2013
READ MOREConsumer advocates lead push for ‘green’ cosmetics
- Green Initiatives
- January 3, 2013
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is working with U.S. representatives to support the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011, which seeks to remove harmful ingredients from products. Currently, the FDA doesn't have to approve most beauty aids before they go on the market. CNN, 12/28/2012
READ MOREHow Dutch innovations could prevent Sandy-type flooding in New York
- Green Initiatives
- November 20, 2012
New York City architects and officials have been trying to find ways to protect the city from another storm of Sandy’s magnitude, and turning to the Dutch might provide a critical answer. New York Daily News, 11/15/2012
READ MOREEPA probes health risks left by old lead factory sites
- Green Initiatives
- October 18, 2012
In response to a USA TODAY investigation, the EPA and states are finding lead poisoning risks around several old factory sites in neighborhoods where children play. USA Today, 10/14/2012
READ MORECalifornia Governor Signs Driverless Cars Bill
- Green Initiatives
- October 2, 2012
Gov. Jerry Brown visited Google to sign legislation that will open the way for driverless cars in California. Google, which has been developing autonomous car technology and lobbying for the legislation, has a fleet of driverless cars that has logged more than 300,000 miles of self-driving. ABC News, 9/25/2012
READ MOREWhere Cows Are Happy and Food Is Healthy
- Green Initiatives
- September 12, 2012
The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof recently visited the dairy of his childhood friend Bob Bansen, who has names for every cow in his herd and treats “his girls” like co-workers. Bob says, "if a cow is at her maximum health and maximum contentedness, she's profitable. I don't manage my farm so much from a
READ MOREFifth-Grader’s Petition Prompts Jamba Juice to Ditch Styrofoam
- Green Initiatives
- August 31, 2012
10-year-old Mia Hansen was visiting a Jamba Juice when she noticed the abundance of Styrofoam cups doled out with every drink order. She started a petition on Change.org saying "Styrofoam takes so long to break down into the Earth. In the ocean, several animals think that this product is food, so when they go to
READ MORERain Garden Helps Spruce Up Suffolk County Parking Lot
- Green Initiatives
- August 3, 2012
Funded mostly by the New York State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, a Riverhead office building recently added a rain garden, the first one on Long Island, to its parking lot. The garden soaks up rain — as much as 3 inches of it — to help stop the flooding that used to happen. Now
READ MOREMom challenges school sunscreen ban after daughters are severely burned
- Green Initiatives
- June 27, 2012
After a school sunscreen ban left two Tacoma, Washington elementary students severely burned, their mother decided to take on the school district. The mother discovered that 49 states nationwide have policies that do not allow staff to apply sunscreen to students, and students can only apply it themselves if they have a doctor’s note. The law
READ MOREThe Gas Station of the Future Just Opened
- Green Initiatives
- June 9, 2012
Last month, Propel Fuels opened the country’s first station where drivers can pump gasoline, ethanol, and biodiesel; cyclists can get tune-ups; and commuters can find public transit schedules. Bloomberg Businessweek, 6/5/2012
READ MOREBattle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food
- Green Initiatives
- May 26, 2012
For more than a decade, almost all processed foods in the United States have contained ingredients from plants whose DNA was manipulated in a laboratory. Regulators and many scientists say these pose no danger. But as Americans ask more pointed questions about what they are eating, popular suspicions about the health and environmental effects of
READ MOREHigh School Students Sign No-Tanning Pledges for Prom
- Green Initiatives
- May 15, 2012
High school senior Allison Bosse took it upon herself to help her classmates pledge to skip the tannning bed for prom this year. Those pledges, taken at Maynard High School in Maynard, Mass., are part of a growing trend at high schools around the U.S., aimed at educating students about the connection between tanning and
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