5 Surprising Ways Your Internet Habits Are Impacting the Environment
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Emails: Tiny Climate Bombs
Email may have done a great job improving productivity and reducing the amount of paper we waste, but those little messages can pack a carbon punch. An average email accounts for 4 grams… -
Renewable Energy Certificates: What They Are and What They Can and Can’t Do
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) A Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) is a tradable tool that represents the environmental qualities of a unit of energy. -
Hellmann's Now Offers Non-GMO Mayo but What's Next?
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Yesterday, we shared the wonderful news that Hellmann’s now offers a non-GMO food option: mayonnaise made with olive oil. Hellmann’s is not only one of the top mayonnaise brands, but it is also part of a much larger company, Unilever. As a company… -
Chipotle moves to Non GMO foods
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If you haven’t yet heard, here is some exciting news—and just in time for lunch. Chipotle announced that it is removing all of the genetically engineered ingredients from its menu, now serving only non GMO foods. In the New York Times, Steve Ells… -
Guest Blog: Mamavation on Unhealthy Chocolate Brands and Your Valentine’s Day Candy
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) Valentine’s Day often means a box of candy from your sweetie, but just what are you getting in that candy? -
Green America’s Raise The Bar Hershey Campaign Honored with Benny Award
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) Activists honored the Raise the Bar Hershey Campaign with the Activists Choice BENNY Award, celebrating the work of Green America’s coalitional efforts with allies to push Hershey into addressing child labor in its supply chain. -
LED Lights Power Up a Big Idea in Hydroponic Farming
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) Using LED bulbs developed by GE, 40 percent less power, 80 percent less food waste and 99 percent less water usage, Shigeharu Shimamura turned a former Sony semiconductor factory in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture into the planet’s biggest interior hydroponic f -
EPA Speaks Out on Keystone Pipeline
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) The Keystone Pipeline, which would carry roughly 830,000 barrels of crude oil has been one of the polarizing issues in American politics. -
Victories
Amazon Announces Construction of Solar & Wind Farms
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) Amazon Web Services announces construction of a solar farm in Virginia and a wind farm in North Carolina.
This is the latest victory in Green America's campaign, launched in 2014, to urge Amazon to adopt 100% clean energy for its servers by 2020. -
Victory for Bangladesh Garment Workers
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) The Children’s Place pays more than $2 million to the victims of Rana Plaza building collapse—the deadliest disaster in the history of the global garment industry.
Green America joined with labor allies worldwide to put pressure on Children's… -
Hellman's Offers Non-GMO Mayo Option
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) In a huge first step for the company, Hellmann’s just announced it is releasing non-GMO mayonnaise dressing made with olive oil.
Green America's GMO Inside Campaign mobilized tens of thousands of consumers to urge Hellman's to go non-GMO.
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National Geographic
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) National Geographic builds on its commitment to use recycled paper (May 2015)
https://www.greenamerica.org/about/newsroom/releases/2014-07-17-Tipping…
In a major step forward for the use of recycled paper in the magazine industry, the National… -
Hershey's Most Popular Chocolates to Go Non-GMO by End of 2015
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) Hershey announced that as part of achieving “simpler ingredients” it will be switching to non-GMO sugar, removing artificial flavors (vanillin), and sourcing milk from cows not treated with the growth hormone rBST in its iconic Milk Chocolate Bar… -
Press Release
“Cocoa Barometer” Report: Too-Cheap Chocolate Could Be Its Own Demise As Young Farmers Not Replacing Old
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) Not Sustainable: Farmers Making as Little as 50 Cents Per Day; Inadequate Responses Mounted So Far to Address Very Serious Problems. -
Green America and Energy Sage Join Forces to Give US Residents the Power of Choice When Evaluating Solar Energy Adoption
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) Partnership Equips Consumers with Single, Vendor-Neutral Resource for Comparing Solar Systems, Installers and Financing Options As Well As Getting Lowest Price Quotes -
GMO Inside Announces Victory For Consumers: Hershey’s Milk Chocolate and Kisses to Go Non-GMO by the End of 2015
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) Latest Move by Hershey’s Follows the Removal of GMOs by General Mills, Unilever, Post Foods. -
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Our Interview with Dr. Bernard Lietaer
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) Bernard Lietaer is the author of "Of Human Wealth" and "The Future of Money," and has been studying monetary systems for more than 25 years. -
In BUSINESS CLOUD NEWS: Green America hits out at Amazon for its dirty cloud
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) Business Cloud News, June 10, 2015
Notforprofit environmental advocacy group Green America is launched a campaign to try and convince Amazon to reduce its carbon footprint and catch up with other large cloud incumbents’ green credentials.… Business Cloud News - http://www.businesscloudnews.com/2015/06/10/green-america-hits-out-at-amazon-fo…
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