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NRCS ANNOUNCES RECORD YEAR FOR EARTH TEAM VOLUNTEERS

Posted: Dec 18, 2002 – 11:00 PM EST

WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Agricultures Natural Resources Conservation Service today announced a record-breaking year for its Earth Team Volunteer Program with more than one million hours of service donated to conservation activities. Volunteers worked on thousands of conservation projects including streambank restoration;...

Conservationists welcome EUB decision on Cheviot

Posted: Dec 18, 2002 – 11:00 PM EST

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA Alberta and national conservation groups welcome a decision by the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) requesting Cardinal River Coals Ltd. to provide information on all potential environmental impacts of their revised proposal for the Cheviot coal mine and not...

Sprint Reminds Consumers to Make a Difference during the Holidays by Donating Their Used Wireless Phones to Sprint Project Connect

Posted: Dec 18, 2002 – 11:00 PM EST

Nationwide wireless phone donation/recycling program has raised more than $125,000 nationwide for Easter Seals and the National Organization on Disability

Kellogg's Company-Wide Campaign Raises $2.5 Million for Local United Ways

Posted: Dec 18, 2002 – 11:00 PM EST

BATTLE CREEK, MI - Employees at Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) facilities across the country have raised a combined $2.5 million for the United Way -- a record for the company campaign. This total, including a company dollar-for-dollar match of employee contributions, is more...

Paul Ray to Contribute to 2003 LOHAS Consumer-Research Project

Posted: Dec 17, 2002 – 11:00 PM EST

BROOMFIELD, CO - Renowned sociologist and author Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., has entered into an agreement with Natural Business Communications, a division of Conscious Media Inc., and the Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) to provide expertise and analysis for the companies' upcoming 2003 Understanding...

Forestweb Launches Online Price and Data Service for Recovered Paper Market; Service Includes New Municipal Recycling Index, Global Projects Database

Posted: Dec 17, 2002 – 11:00 PM EST

LOS ANGELES -- Forestweb, Inc. (http://www.forestweb.com) announced today that it has launched a dynamic online price, news, and data service for professionals serving and working in the recovered paper market. The new service called PriceBeat: Recovered Paper is the newest module in Forestweb's...

United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiatives (UNEP FI) to Release Report Detailing Almost Two Years of Progress

Posted: Dec 17, 2002 – 11:00 PM EST

Twenty-one months of finance and sustainability action

AT&T Releases Report on Community, Environment and Workplace Programs

Posted: Dec 17, 2002 – 11:00 PM EST

BEDMINSTER, NJ, -AT&T employees have volunteered 4 million hours -- the equivalent of 167,000 days, 456 years, or six lifetimes -- at community-service organizations around the world since 1996. These facts and figures are among the highlights of the "AT&T Corporate Citizenship Report"...

Johns Manville Formaldehyde-free Fiber Glass Wins BuildingGreen Top Ten Green Building Products Award

Posted: Dec 16, 2002 – 11:00 PM EST

DENVER - Johns Manville Formaldehyde-free building insulation was recently named to the top ten new green building products by BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of the GreenSpec(R) Directory and Environmental Building News. The first-ever award recognizes the most exciting products added to the GreenSpec Directory...