Bloggers Won’t Stand For Greenwashing
If a company “talks the talk”, they’d better “walk the walk” when it comes to going green. According to an article in Advertising Age, if a company makes claims to be environmentally sustainable, they’d better make sure that their products, packaging and business practices support it or they’ll soon be the subject of blog posts all over the Net.

Some of the biggest companies have found out the hard way that covering dodgy environmental practices with a layer of green hype is an invitation to eco-bloggers, who are uber-sensitive to greenwashing. More …

Tricycles Deliver Eco-Boost to Boston Traffic
The city of Boston, MA is famous for massive traffic jams, fume-laden pollution and less than courteous drivers. A Cambridge company, New Amsterdam Project, is working on changing at least two out of three of those problems. (And maybe it will have an effect on drivers’ manner also. We can hope.)

NAPS is delivering everything from chocolates to cheese in large tricycles with bins on them to hold the deliveries. While pedaled delivery vehicles are common in other countries, they’ve never really caught on in America, except for bicycle messengers in a few cities. The company’s CEO thinks they could be one answer to the problem of global warming, rising fuel prices and dwindling stocks of fossil fuel. More …

Solar Powered Snacks
Appropriately enough, Frito-Lay’s Sun Chips brand is announcing that one of their manufacturing facilities is going solar. The coming-out party will include several innovative advertising gimmicks including a billboard message that changes with the position of shadows cast according to the sun’s position.

Frito-Lay has previously installed a solar powered electricity system on the roof of its largest distributing facility and Sun Chips has the Center for Resource Solution’s green e-seal because it purchases REC’s. More …

Paris Airport Will Be Heated by Geothermal
Orly Airport in Paris, France will use water that has been heated by geothermal energy to heat a third of its entire facility by 2011. This will also reduce the airport’s carbon emissions by 7,000 tons.

Two vertical shafts will be drilled and the natural pressure of the earth will allow the 74 degree water to rise to the surface, where it will be injected into the airport’s heating system. Orly will be the first airport to use this CO2 free way for heat. More …

Plastic Bag Ban Spreading
Several countries have already banned plastic bags in favor of reusable cloth bags and many other countries are considering a ban. The reasons go beyond plastic’s dependence on petrochemicals for manufacture. Plastic bags are a hazard to many animals and birds and clog the oceans.

While some countries and municipalities are taxing them or making shoppers pay for them at point of purchase, outright bans seem to be more likely worldwide. More …

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