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Leslie Guevarra wrote a new blog post: Can clothing companies make sustainability trendy? 1 year ago · View
Leaders in the apparel industry have made important moves to make their operations and designs more environmentally responsible:
• Major fashion houses and labels like Gucci, YSL and Puma have pledged to publicly post environmental profit and loss reports. • Nike’s adopted waterless dyeing techniques. • Levi’s devised greener ways to make and care for jeans. • Timberland and The North [...]
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Leslie Guevarra wrote a new blog post: Nest Thermostats: Making Home Energy Use Smarter & Sexier 1 year, 1 month ago · View
About 40 percent of the 92 million residential thermostats in the United States are programmable, which would be a great thing for energy saving, except that only about 10 million of devices are actually programmed. The problem is that most of the gadgets are too hard to use and people aren’t inclined to figure them [...] -
Leslie Guevarra wrote a new blog post: How Organic Valley Built a Green Brand with Guerrilla Marketing 1 year, 2 months ago · View
CROPP, now the largest cooperative for organic farmers in the United States, planted its stakes 24 years ago during an agriculture recession that drove thousands of family farms into bankruptcy. The group formed with one objective: “We set out to keep farmers on the land farming,” said Theresa Marquez, CROPP’s chief mission officer, at the 2012 GreenBiz Forum . [...] -
Leslie Guevarra wrote a new blog post: GM to Launch Industry’s First Eco-Label for Cars 1 year, 3 months ago · View
In an industry first, General Motors ‘ Chevy brand has created a green label for its cars and will roll out the sticker bearing environmental data next month starting with the 2012 Chevy Sonic. The Ecologic label (pictured below) will be affixed to the driver’s side rear window of Sonic sedans and hatchbacks in the U.S. market by the end [...]
