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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A Dolt on the Volt
January 29th, 2011
By Tom Carter Gene Weingarten wrote a very funny satirical article in The Washington Post today about the Chevrolet Volt. That’s the “volt” referred to in the title; Weingarten is the “dolt,” by his own admission. Like most people, I suppose, I didn’t know much about the Volt before I read Weingarten’s article. From what […]
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Tags: Chevrolet, cost, energy, environment, incentive, performance, subsidy, Volt
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