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The H. J. Heinz Company announced a milestone company goal: to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2015. This effort is part of Heinz's sustainability vision, to be a trusted leader in nutrition and wellness, dedicated to the sustainable health of people, the planet and the Company. "From using potato peels to generate energy, to reducing the amount and size of our packaging, every day we're finding new ways to redu… Continue

Perhaps the greatest shift fueled by the petroleum age is the mobility revolution. Just over a century after the Wright Brothers' "Flying Machine" went airborne, we take for granted the ability to circumnavigate the globe by plane. Now, climate change and peak oil (among other developments) are requiring perhaps an even more profound transformation - the attempt to maintain such mobility while radically reducing (or even eliminating) carbon emissions and other adverse environmental impacts… Continue

Nearly 20,000 elementary students in 217 schools in four states are participating this week in Dominion's Project Plant It! program, a community effort to educate children, plant trees and improve the environment. More than 15,000 students in Virginia and more than 4,000 students in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are participating in the Project Plant It! partnership among Dominion, the Arbor Day Foundation and selected school districts where the company does business. The program… Continue

A "social stock exchange" where ethical investors can trade shares in worthy enterprises could be set up under plans announced on Friday. The exchange would aim to combine profitable trading with social or environmental missions. Clean technologies, healthcare, first world development projects and help for disadvantaged communities would be included in the exchange. The Rockefeller Foundation, one… Continue

Here are a couple of slides what greed can do. Click on the link. (You maybe have to click again on picture to zoom depending on your browser): The Subprime World