Victories (September 23, 2019 ) Sprint announced its first major commitment to clean energy with a virtual power purchasing agreement with Duke Renewables for a 182 MW wind farm.  The deal will result in Sprint using 30% renewable energy. In Green America's Clean Energy…

Victories (September 23, 2019 ) AT&T announced new contracts for solar and wind energy that will bring its total clean energy purchases to over 1.5 Gigawatts.  Last year the company announced 820 MW of clean energy, so the new announcement nearly doubles AT&T's…
clean energy

Victories (September 19, 2019 ) After years of pressure by Green America, Amazon announced it will get to 80% renewables by 2024 and 100% by 2030. Our demands have always been: Commit to 100% renewable energy by 2020 and end the construction of any new data centers…
Amazon

BlogNews (September 23, 2019 ) The Ivory Coast and Ghana announced that they will raise the price of cocoa by $400 per ton, but more needs to be done to stop child labor.
child labor

BlogNews (September 12, 2019 ) By Ayate Temsamani, Climate Fellow The Impact of Telecoms The US telecom industry uses vast amounts of energy, with the major four companies collectively using over 30 million megawatt hours (MWH) of electric power every year—enough energy to…
climate change, clean energy, green economy, green jobs, wind, solar, education, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile

Green Business Certification Assessment (September 20, 2019 ) Smog Armor Paint Benefits: 1. Non-toxic 2. Zero-VOCs 3. Made in USA 4. Materials sourced in USA 5. no animal cruelty 6. The paint eliminates surrounding air pollution including CO2, VOCs, and NOX 7. Uses 100% recycled paint cans 8. Have a recycle…

Green Business Certification Assessment (September 10, 2019 ) We support our local economy by offering well paid work to teens, as well as working parents. We work hard to maintain a brick and mortar shop, to enhance our main street and to offer sustainable/ethical goods to our community. As a retailer of…

Green Business Certification Assessment (September 10, 2019 ) We support our local economy by offering well paid work to teens, as well as working parents. We work hard to maintain a brick and mortar shop, to enhance our main street and to offer sustainable/ethical goods to our community. As a retailer of…

Personal story (September 11, 2019 ) Anheuser-Busch initiative aims to help farmers transition to organic, boost organic industry By Ken Roseboro, The Organic and Non-GMO Report   Anheuser-Busch Company’s “Contract for Change” will provide long-term contracts to farmers, pay…
Anheuser-Busch, farmers, crops, agriculture

Personal story (September 10, 2019 ) Attention all pollinators! Prime real estate is now available just eight miles west of Chicago in suburban River Forest, Illinois.  Enjoy native gardens on your way to work by visiting one of the 36 Parkway for Pollinators Gardens. Your kids…
gardening, climate change, pollinator habitat, bees, butterflies, native plants, Climate Victory Garden

Personal story (September 5, 2019 ) Written by Trina Calderón, a Los Angeles TV/filmmaker, journalist, and UC Master Gardener. She contributes art and culture writing to a variety of print and digital media, and writes short stories, essays, and screenplays. Committed to a…
help the homeless

Personal story (September 4, 2019 ) Restaurants Are Helping to Drive Carbon Farming Practices Restaurants have always played a large role in shaping how eaters view food. They help remind consumers how food is produced and where it comes from. Their influence can sometimes bring…

Green Business Member Profile (September 7, 2019 ) Wireworx retails and wholesales authentic African fair trade beaded wire animal figurines, key chains, magnets, tree ornaments, wall and garden decor.
fair trade, beaded animals, wire animals, garden decor, wall decor, key chains, tree ornaments

Green Business Member Profile (September 5, 2019 ) Eco-friendly Cannabis and CBD Packaging
Dama Distributing, eco-friendly products, sustainable packaging, cannabis, CBD, packaging, child resistant, biodegradable, bioplastic, sustainable business, compost, compostable, sustainability, eco-friendly

Piece (September 5, 2019 ) Today, we break down some responses that members and Green America received from Carter’s.
Carter's children's clothing

Competition Items (September 4, 2019 ) Picture the last event you attended. If it was like most events in the U.S., you probably noticed a lot of waste: food waste, plastic waste, printed waste, and more. Sustainable Events LLC helps organizations and event professionals reduce the…

Competition Items (September 4, 2019 ) Ink Forest believes T-shirts ARE the original social media. Posts on Facebook, Twitter or a picture on Instagram only last for minutes down a customer’s feed. A t-shirt will last for years. So, if you’re going to promote your business, club, school…

Competition Items (September 4, 2019 ) Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Company’s mission has been clear for 26 years: To use high-quality, specialty coffee as a vehicle for positive change throughout the coffeelands of Asia, Africa and the Americas. In 1994, we set out to prove that a for-…

Competition Items (September 4, 2019 ) We started Bennett Compost ten years ago with $100 and a dream to make composting easy for people in the city.  Since then, we've grown to a company of 10 employees, and compost the food waste and organics for over 3000 households and…

Green America in the News (September 4, 2019 ) If climate change feels like an impossibly knotty threat to unravel, consider the outlook of Alisa Gravitz (MBA 1980), who sees being carbon negative worldwide by 2050 as entirely possible. As president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.–based…

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