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Green Businesses: Redefining the Bottom Line

November 9th, 2012

By Jan Barry General Motors has set a different kind of bottom line for car companies, reducing and reusing waste material to zero at more than half of its manufacturing plants around the world. PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay is taking similar action in food manufacturing, building what it calls a “netzero” plant in Arizona designed to operate […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: business, environment, GM, green, recycling, sustainability, Volt, waste
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Raise Green Children

June 24th, 2010

By Dr. Jim Taylor Regardless of where you stand on the issue of climate change, I hope there is no argument that, environmentally speaking, we simply can’t sustain our current path for much longer. Air pollution caused by the growing number of automobiles on the road and coal-burning power plants worldwide. Our oceans and seas […]

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Tags: children, climate change, Earth, environment, garden, green, recycling
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Reuse as Art

September 21st, 2009

Recycling bottles and cans and other stuff can be darn boring. Yet a new use for an old building took an exciting turn in Amarillo, Texas. A former shopping mall, sitting forlornly in a sea of cracked asphalt, was transformed into a thriving arts center. Air-conditioned hallways that sat empty after department stores and specialty […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Amarillo, arts center, recycling, shopping mall, Texas
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