business
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The Chamber of Commerce is darkening our skies
It’s always darkest before it goes pitch black.Photo: Twig is the FutureThis essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission. In Beijing, they celebrate when they have a “blue sky day,” when, that is, the haze clears long enough so that you can actually see the sun. Many days, […]
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Real-life Darth Vader/ Emperor Palpatine duo now in charge of U.S. energy policy
The best government money can buy.Photo: Official Star Wars BlogThe bad news is that we now have a political climate in Congress that could only be more lethal to action on clean energy and climate change if it were made out of mustard gas. The worse news is that the reason things have gotten to […]
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'Bio-based': organic’s sketchy new cousin
Will the USDA's new "bio-based" label, for products made with renewable ingredients, actually just enable greenwashing?
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What’s a benefit corporation? And why should you shop there?
Benefit corporations are a sort of magic nonprofit and for-profit hybrid of social responsibility.
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New Agtivists: Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez turn coffee grounds into fun fungi kits
When two good-looking 23-year-olds give up careers in investment banking to grow mushrooms, oysters and shiitakes aren't the first fungi one imagines.
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In his Wall Street Journal op-ed, Obama moves to the right on regulation
In today's Wall Street Journal, President Obama embraces a conservative frame for the coming discussion about the role of regulation.
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'Habitual violator' Jack DeCoster may secretly be largest U.S. chick magnate
By the standards of the U.S. egg industry, Jack DeCoster looks at first glance like a relatively small player. But when you unravel his companies' tangled ownership chain, the infamous factory-farmer emerges as the rooster of the hen yard.
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Grassroots financing is underwriting a new crop of neighborhood businesses
In the summer of 2008, business partners Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and Rebecca Fitting were making plans to open a bookstore in Brooklyn. Their chosen neighborhood, Fort Greene, was over the moon at the prospect. For years, residents had been clamoring for a bookstore, repeatedly citing it as their top need in surveys conducted by the […]
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Introducing ULE 880 — Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations
A new sustainability standard for companies is being released for public comment: ULE 880 -- Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations.