NewsRack: 'Green Purchasing' news in 'Economics and Jobs-National' topic for user flenvcenter

Peter Seligmann: A Sustainable Future Relies on US-China Collaboration	22.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
The U.S. and China, although at different stages with their respective economic and environmental challenges, are each increasingly vulnerable to resource scarcity, from minerals to water to food to the biodiversity that fuels science, medicine, and innovation.
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Romania Changes Course on Renewable Energy	21.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Business
Romania Changes Course on Renewable Energy
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David Bank: Q&A With Fish 2.0: Beyond Seafood Business as Usual	21.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Converting fish waste into food. Powering fish farms in the desert. I caught up with Monica Jain recently to learn what business opportunities are emerging from the Fish 2.0 contest she has organized to connect investors with opportunities in the seafood industry.
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Fishing the Gulf of Maine: Tradition at a Crossroads	20.5.2013	Environmental News Network
Fishing the Gulf of Maine: Tradition at a Crossroads
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Food Politic: The Source Project and Modern Agriculture in India	20.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
How is it possible that we have moved from a free system that enhances our environment to a costly system that destroys our environment?
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Fair Trade USA’s Draft Certification Policy Riles Organic Community	20.5.2013	Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
The Organic Consumer Association's Fair World Project opposes Fair Trade USA's draft policy for multi-ingredient products, which it says panders to big business and represents a step backward even from the group's previously contested standards. Dr Bronner's Magic Soaps is preparing to file a new complaint with the National Advertising Division. Click here to read this article
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Whatever Happened To California's 'Hydrogen Highway'?	20.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station...
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Insight: The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill	20.5.2013	Yahoo: Top Stories
By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by General Motors Corp. The "California Hydrogen Highway," Schwarzenegger's vision to ensure that every Californian would have access to a hydrogen fueling station by the end of 2010, called for the state to spend more than $50 million to help deploy up to 100 hydrogen fuel stations that would serve 2,000 fuel cell vehicles. ... ...
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Famed Farmers Market Turns 20	19.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
This city may have its bars, restaurants and celebrity chefs. But there's one place that truly represents what San Francisco food and drink is all...
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How To Go Green: From Food To Fashion	18.5.2013	WCCO: Local News
The term "Going Green" can be a little intimidating. But Saturday at the Union Depot in St. Paul, MN Goes Green organizers hope to make it easy with everything from repurposing items in your house, to fashion and food.
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How Criminology Might Help Fight Poaching	18.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Douglas Main, LiveScience Staff Writer: Newark, N.J. — With no shortage of human-on-human misdeeds, criminologists haven't typically concerned themselves with crimes against wildlife and the...
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Farm Bill Fiasco: What Next for the Food Movement?	17.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Christopher Cook Deciding how America will nourish itself and sustain its farms would seem a top policy priority— yet as the US Farm Bill demonstrates, sustainably grown, healthy food and livable incomes for farmers and workers remain an afterthought in a process controlled almost entirely by agribusiness and a handful of farm-state legislators. Despite strong public opinion supporting local food, farmer’s markets, organic agriculture, food workers’ rights and access to fresh produce, agribusiness and commodity interests continue to dominate food and farming policy. read more
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3 myths about product life cycle assessments	17.5.2013	Business Operations \| GreenBiz.com
These three persistent myths about LCA each have a grain of truth, but also a fundamental misunderstanding.
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Biz Break: Cisco shoots for the sky, and may keep going; Elon Musk keeps winning	17.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News
Today: Cisco hits its highest price in more than two years and may be poised for more gains. Also: Elon Musk continues to win and Apple turns back to green, but NetApp and AMD tumble.
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Keeping Produce Fresh Longer	16.5.2013	Green Lifestyle and Sustainable Culture News - ENN
Billions of dollars of fruits, vegetables, and flowers are thrown away each year as produce ripens too quickly and starts to rot in different markets before public buyers even buy them. Even though you might expect these products to start rotting to their death after they are first harvested, researchers explain that fruits, vegetables and flowers are still alive after they are picked. In fact, once these products are picked, they produce and release into the air ethylene gas, a crucial component for the ripening and blooming process.
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Keeping Produce Fresh Longer	16.5.2013	Green Technology and Environmental Science News - ENN
Billions of dollars of fruits, vegetables, and flowers are thrown away each year as produce ripens too quickly and starts to rot in different markets before public buyers even buy them. Even though you might expect these products to start rotting to their death after they are first harvested, researchers explain that fruits, vegetables and flowers are still alive after they are picked. In fact, once these products are picked, they produce and release into the air ethylene gas, a crucial component for the ripening and blooming process.
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Ron Seftel: The Next Big Thing in Green Power: Community Ownership	16.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Any socially transformative movement gets to a point where it needs to be fully embraced by the people it impacts. The green power movement within Canada is at just such a point. The past decade has seen an increase in the number of options available to Canadians to support renewable energy -- often associated with a premium cost to the consumer.
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Some light in clean tech investing, despite the gloom	16.5.2013	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
The vast majority of clean energy investment not coming from VCs is actually a positive indicator for the maturation of clean energy markets.
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Lisa Borden: 50 Simple Things I Do To Reduce	16.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
I must admit, I would have never guessed that reducing would have been a hobby of mine, but, once I started, I realized that I was good at it, and it felt good too. I hope that what I've done (so far, because it's a work in progress) inspires you on your own path of living a little bit lighter.
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Andrew Gunther: GE Crop Thriller Leaves Bond and Bourne for Dust	16.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Mounting calls in the U.S. for the labeling of GE foods also represents a huge problem for the likes of Monsanto: What will happen to demand for GE seeds once consumers actually have a real choice over whether or not they consume GE food?
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