Opinion Forum

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 […]

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Tags: business, environment, GM, green, recycling, sustainability, Volt, waste
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Rethinking National Security at the Pentagon

May 11th, 2011

By Jan Barry “Sustainability” is the latest buzz word in academic and environmental circles. Now it is also buzzing around the halls of the Pentagon. As the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan run out of rationalizations and public patience, two staff officers working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff have developed a new twist […]

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Tags: Afghanistan, defense, foreign policy, Iraq, security, strategy, sustainability
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Think Green, Go Green

November 5th, 2009

By Jan Barry America is in the midst of massive change as sweeping as the transformation in daily life from horse-drawn wagons to horseless carriages, candle light to electric lights, and farm work to factory work that swirled through the nation a century ago. A cutting edge of 21st century change is the spiraling use […]

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Tags: environment, farming, green jobs, renewable energy, sustainability
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