The Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative, a four-year-old, statewide grant and loan program for grocery store development, has financed over 50 independent grocery stores and...
Responding to criticism that President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet is composed largely of recycled Bill Clinton appointees, Obama’s close advisor David Axelrod told the New York...
Working Assets is my long-distance phone company. I love it dearly for its combination of business efficiency, social responsibility and progressive politics. Each month, my...
A profile of the first Independent Business Alliance. Plotting the overthrow of the franchised world, bookstore owner David Bolduc and political organizer Jeff Milchen strategize...
Forty years ago, two roads diverged in the chicken industry. Sick of being squeezed by processors, Canadian poultry farmers asked their local governments to construct...
Cap and Trade is one approach for limiting our global warming pollution but there is a different climate change proposal in Congress called the CLEAR...
When author Michael Pollan spoke at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in mid-October, it’s a safe bet his hosts didn’t offer fresh cherries to the...
Unlike many cities, Portland, Maine, has forged ahead with a significant energy efficiency plan without federal stimulus dollars. Simply borrowing money through bonding to investing...
Can a state with a renewable energy mandate require green jobs to stay at home? Litigation has made states into tepid defenders of their job...
Using the tax code to support wind and solar power significantly increases their cost. I wrote about this problem last year because project developers were...
Consumers Energy in Michigan, with a peak demand of around 4,000 megawatts (MW) just put the brakes on its pilot 2 MW solar PV program. ...
A great story of a city looking to – literally – take ownership of its energy future: The Colorado Renewable Energy Standard, as amended last...
DUFFERIN MALL TORONTO, ONTARIO Contact: David Hall Dufferin Mall Toronto, Ontario (416) 532-1152 The Dufferin Mall recycling program began in 1992. Corrugated cardboard, glass, cans,...
THE GREEN WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT BOARD SECRETARIAT, TORONTO, ONTARIO Contact: David Sparling The Green Workplace 900 Bay Street, Room M2-59 Toronto, Ontario M7A 1N3(416) 585-7541 The...
Tires MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY TIRE RECOVERY PROGRAM In 1990 the state began giving grants to clean up tire piles and spur development of markets...