Dell and Google: Way to Go Green! Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-04-07 10:04:23 ENN, the Environmental News Network, recently announced that Dell (DELL - $19.53), the world's largest mail-order computer vendor and maker of the infinitely adaptable Dell PC and laptop computers, was running its 2.1-million square foot Round Rock facility entirely on renewable energy.
Does the EPA Really Want to Know What You Think? Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-07-26 10:18:29
Surf the web on almost any subject and eventually you’ll get a hit at About.com, which bills itself as a resource offering expert guidance from people like you and me.
Doing the Springsteen to Extinction Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-06-14 11:20:22
Bruce said it best when he wrote the song, "One Step Up," bewailing the fact that we humans don’t seem to be able to learn even from the hard lessons, creating a history that is almost consistently one step up and two steps back.
Dupont and 3M: Teflon Replacement as Toxic as the Original? Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-06-16 15:06:59
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, have been pressuring manufacturers like Dupont (DD - $47.21) and 3M (MMM - $75.22, formerly Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) for years to replace their toxic coatings containing PFOAs (a type of PFC) with more environmentally-friendly substitutes.
Dupont: A Different Shade of Green Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-01-30 10:19:53 If you search the Internet for EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (DD - $44.77), or simply DuPont, you'll come across a stand-alone web page called Preserving Open Land: 1983. The page portrays DuPont as a paradigm for the chemical industry and details a supposed history of environmental stewardship which is in direct contraposition to DuPont's actual operations, which have polluted every region in which the company operates. In fact, if DuPont is any shade of green, it is olive – that peculiar color people turn when they've been poisoned.
