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Wal-Mart & Seventh Generation bring...

Posted by Ken Gardner in Green Business on 07 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Seventh Generation, the nation’s leading brand of non-toxic and environmentally friendly household products, is embarking on a mission with Wal-Mart to help make sustainable living more accessible to consumers nationwide, including availability at more than 1,500 Wal-Mart stores and on Wal-Mart.com. For the past 20 years, Seventh Generation has helped consumers protect their planet home with naturally safe and effective household products and is now elevating that commitment by increasing accessibility through a partnership with the world’s largest...

Empire State Building: Can the tallest b...

Posted by Ken Gardner in Green Business on 07 27th, 2010 | No Comments

All 6,514 windows in New York’s tallest building will be replaced, and tenants will be advised on how to save electricity. When the Empire State Building was opened on 1 May 1931, having been designed in two weeks and built in an astonishing 15 months, it instantly became a symbol of human fortitude in the face of the Great Depression. Now its current owners are attempting to reinvent it for the modern era by turning it into a green building symbolizing human ingenuity in the face of inertia. Its owners today unveiled new, environmentally friendly plans for the art deco...

Vegas’ Glass Bottles Become Building M...

Posted by Ken Gardner in Green Business on 07 14th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Have you ever ordered a drink at a bar or restaurant and wondered what happened to the bottle it came in? On the Las Vegas Strip, these bottles may end up as the facade for buildings when mixed with recycled cement, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The material is known as Green Stone, and currently 200,000 pounds of it are being applied to the headquarters of Realm of Design, which manufactures Green Stone. The other key players are Luxor and Mandalay Bay, which provide glass bottles from their bars and restaurants, and Evergreen Recycling, which collects and...

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