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Windmade is the next Fair Trade, gets backers like LEGO
By December of this year, the next box of Legos you buy could be stamped "made with 100% Wind Power." Subsequently, countless other goods you buy could bear the Windmade stamp, which -- like Fair Trade, Organic, Recycled, etc. -- is competing to become one more differentiator for goods made with sustainability in mind.
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Food industry FAIL: Foods promoted as healthy for kids — surprise! — are mostly not
A new study released today by the Prevention Institute should represent the final nail in the coffin of food industry self-regulation. Out of 50 products claimed to be good for kids, 84 percent flunk basic nutritional standards.
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Walmart, KFC, and others fight over Africa’s new middle class
Despite widespread poverty, Africa's middle class is now bigger than India's ... which hasn't escaped the likes of Walmart, KFC, and Nestle.
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Reading the tea leaves for the future of the global food trade
Does your tea habit promote deforestation, soil erosion, gushers of pesticides, and poverty wages? Probably -- even if it's Fair Trade, I'm sorry to say. But it doesn't have to.
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California's solar power increasingly Chinese made
The Chinese are moving quickly to fill the photovoltaic market created by the California Solar Initiative.
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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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Millennials not looking for McMansions (unless they have to move back in with the parents)
Will Generation Y choose to live in smaller spaces and more walkable communities than their parents did?
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Did we learn anything from the BP oil spill?
The National Oil Spill Commission has given marching orders on how to prevent another disaster. But will Congress listen?
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Report: Big solar thermal power's days are numbered
Competition from ever-cheaper photovoltaic panels could cool demand for solar thermal.
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Global investment in green energy hit record in 2010
Venture capitalists, corporations, and governments worldwide pouring $243 billion into wind farms, solar power, electric cars, and other technologies.
