Since 1990 Nike has recycled over 25 million shoes. For years Nike as long being associated with great shoes for most sports. Since 1990, the company also started manufacturing surfaces those shoes perform on. According to their website, “concern for the environment is more than a passing trend for Nike [...]

When buying a green car, there are more things you need to consider. Toyota’s 8.5 million vehicle recall, including more than 300,000 of its best selling Prius hybrid, couldn’t have come at a better time for Nissan. The Japan based company, which sold 770,000 units in the U.S. last year, [...]

Christmas Valley fights to keep its “Western Lifestyle” as businesses target area. When Gary Perkins heard that solar companies were buying nearby fields and planning to fill them with commercial solar arrays, the Christmas Valley alfalfa farmer snapped up two parcels in front of his log cabin. He didn’t want [...]

Each ONE Change ONE is a mass event for Earth Day. The environmental website It’s The Environment Stupid has created “Each ONE Change ONE, a mass event for Earth Day on April 22, 2010. An official Earth Day Network event, Each ONE Change ONE is asking every one of the [...]

Weddings that say “I do” to the environment. More couples are adding environmentally sound options to their wedding plans. Sarah Shewey, founder of Los Angeles based Pink Cloud Events, a green event production company, says brides and grooms are getting over the misconception that a green wedding can’t be big [...]

Water Scarcity becoming a critical issue for the Arab World. Climate change, food insecurity and the decreasing availability of water are among the multiple challenges facing the Arab region, according to a new assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme. “This assessment has been a truly collaborative one outlining the [...]

Mexico Tourism is starting to go green ahead of Climate Change conference to be held later this year. Latin America is widely viewed as the cradle of ecotourism even until recently, most of Mexico’s protected areas were simply off limits to tourism. Keeping popular destinations such as Cancun beautiful is [...]

Environmental Groups in the US want to expand climate bill forestry aid. Environmental Groups based in the US are trying to expand a climate change bill being written in the United States Senate, to help foreign countries pay for enforcing laws they already have in place for protecting forests as [...]

Executive Recruiter focuses on Green Economy in new book. Dan Smolen believes many up and coming executives might want to forgo the usual gray or blue power suit for a green one. Mr. Smolen, an executive recruiter and business consultant says a budding global “green” economy, with more companies focusing [...]

Going green is giving some companies growing pains in search for capital. While traditional energy companies are booming in Charlotte, renewable energy firms find themselves chasing financing. Siemens Energy’s 825 job announcement last week gave a big bounce to Charlotte’s growing energy hub, which promises to help refocus the city’s [...]