Latest Media Mentions

Victories

Amazon commits to 80% and 100% renewable energy

Victories ( ) 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…
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BlogNews

Clean Up Wireless & Create Green Jobs

BlogNews ( ) 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…
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How to Be a Sustainable Business: A Certification Guide

BlogNews ( ) Originally published on business.com by Bryan Pena | August 30, 2019 Getting certified can help your small business. There are more than 40 million independent workers in the U.S. today, and that means a competitive market for the attention and…
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The Tragedy in the Amazon: What We Can Do

BlogNews ( ) The Amazon forest fires are tragedy for Brazil, as people are experiencing severe health problems and are at risk of losing their homes.
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Personal story

Anheuser-Busch

Personal story ( ) 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…
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Pollinator Home Sites Available in Illinois

Personal story ( ) 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…
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Growing Hope Gardens Help the Homeless

Personal story ( ) 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…
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Zero Foodprint

Personal story ( ) 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…
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Green Business Certification Assessment

hatched llc

Green Business Certification Assessment ( ) 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…
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hatched llc

Green Business Certification Assessment ( ) 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…
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Tezahn

Green Business Certification Assessment ( ) We value and respect the hard work of our farmers as well as our planets resources. Hence, we make every effort to support Fair Trade and Environment. We source ingredients from Fair Trade and Organic certified organizations. Our packaging is bio-…
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Tezahn

Green Business Certification Assessment ( ) We value and respect the hard work of our farmers as well as our planets resources. Hence, we make every effort to support Fair Trade and Environment. We source ingredients from Fair Trade and Organic certified organizations. Our packaging is bio-…
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Green Business Member Profile

WireWorx

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

Green Business Member Profile ( ) Eco-friendly Cannabis and CBD Packaging
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Piece

Decoding a Corporate Response: The Carter’s Edition

Piece ( ) Today, we break down some responses that members and Green America received from Carter’s.
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Competition Items

Sustainable Events

Competition Items ( ) 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…
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Ink Forest

Competition Items ( ) 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…
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Dean's Beans

Competition Items ( ) 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-…
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Bennett Compost

Competition Items ( ) 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…
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Green America in the News

A Climate Change Optimist

Green America in the News ( ) 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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