Posts Tagged with ‘green’

There’s an interesting survey Business Week reports on today about how environmentally-conscious the largest consumer-oriented corporations are. And unfortunately some of our favorite names will probably have to be reconsidered if you really want to support only companies that try to fight global warming and preserve our planet as it is.
The study has been carried out by Ceres, an alliance of investors and environmentalists and has addressed the environment policies of 63 largest consumer and IT corporations in the world. [...]

Tools To Life is a startup (launched in January 2007 and currently in beta 2.0 stage) that is intended to provide its users with tools for self-improvement in various areas of life. Members of the site are offered professional self-improvement programs and are also able to enjoy the support of the community that should help them reach their goals. What’s more, the users are offered to blog right on the site about their achievements (or failures) and hopefully inspire other [...]

There are those who would assume that running a business that keeps old textbooks out of landfills, takes those books and sells them at a low price, and then buys carbon credits to offset emissions that result from shipping those books is actually a charity. How could a company ever make money by trying to do good things for the environment? Better World Books is out to prove those doubters wrong.
Founded by three college friends who wanted to support global [...]

Color me jaded. At a time when there seems to be a huge upswing in companies launching to either do good or add doing good to their repertoire, Google wants to jump that train. The problem is that repackaging existing services as a “charitable” idea doesn't really make it as a good will gesture.
Today, Google launched Google for Non-Profits, a destination site that, er, looks almost the same as the standard Google offerings page. They've simply posted links to their [...]