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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
Briggs & Stratton (BGG - $19.26), a small-engine manufacturer with corporate offices in Wisconsin, major manufacturing plants in six states, and offshore manufacturing in China, Dubai and the Czech Republic, has failed to mow down environmentalists or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), whose draft regulation of small-engine emissions standards will become rule this year.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 March 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
In 2000, Ford Motor Company (F - $5.92) sponsored Time Magazine's Earth Day edition, Heroes for the Planet, and issued a statement declaring that it would henceforth spend as much on its environmental image as it would promoting a new model car. Ford also promised to reduce emissions.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 March 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
The U.S. Congress recently passed an energy bill that requires incrementally phasing out incandescent bulbs over the next six years, beginning with 100-watt bulbs in 2012 and ending with 40-watt bulbs in 2014.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 March 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Monday, 14 January 2008 |
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, or 3M (MMM - $78.50), is a Minnesota institution on the order of Milwaukee and beer. Founded in 1902 by a lawyer, a butcher and a locomotive engineer, the company set out to make sandpaper and, 23 years later, came up with a packaging revolution known as masking tape. Along the way, it also spawned an indigenous economy that employed thousands and represented a cultural paradigm of corporate-sponsored creativity which produced such nonpareils as Scotch tape and Post-it® Notes.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 March 2008 )
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Written by Erin Arvedlund
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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
Women on Wall Street for the first time are raising serious money in the millions of dollars and emerging as a fundraising force in the same way they blazed a career trail among their male peers in finance.
Three groups in particular-- 100 Women in Hedge Funds, High Water Women and 85 Broads are gathering Wall Street women and their wallets together to carve out a niche at raising money for hands-on philanthropy, as well as mentoring, networking and empowering lower and middle-class women. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 March 2007 )
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