Environmental Resources

NEW YORK, September 27, 200 -Vestergaard Frandsen (www.vestergaard-frandsen.com), a disease control textile company, will showcase its breakthrough product, Lifestraw at WIRED's NextFest from September 29-October 1, 2006. Ve...

Montreal, Canada -- Alcan and The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) announced today the 2006 shortlist of candidates for the US$1 million Alcan Prize for Sustainability. Ten organizations were selected from a field of almost 200 entries from ...

MATTHEWS, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2006--CEM Corporation, a leading provider of microwave laboratory instrumentation, announced today that it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The goal o...

Carbonfund.org, the leading not-for-profit carbon offset organization, and CSRwire, The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire, have partnered to deliver the latest CSR headlines, CarbonFreeTM. Every press release CSRwire sends is now CarbonFree™, with CSRwire supporting ...

Raleigh, N.C. - Sonoco (NYSE: SON) has begun commercial operation of a fully automated, state-of-the-art materials recovery facility (MRF) that recycles curbside-collected and dual-stream residential and commercial waste materials from the Raleigh and Wake County, N.C. area....

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2006--Jupiter Oxygen, with the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority and Orrville Utilities announced today that work will begin on the world's first oxy-fuel clean coal retrofit of an operating electric power plant. At the Orrville, ...

Twelve years into its sustainability journey, and now in full swing with its Mission Zero™ promise, Interface has launched InterfaceRAISE™, a corporate consulting resource that will further amplify Interface's long standing efforts to educate others seeking to implement the ...

COLCHESTER, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Green Mountain Power this week celebrated the tenth anniversary of installing the first turbine in its Searsburg wind generating station, a plant that has contributed clean, emission-free energy to the New England grid since it began operat...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2006--California Closets(R), the leading designer of home storage solutions, today announced it has added Roseburg Forest Products' SkyBlend(TM)particleboard to their product line offerings. SkyBlend is a Scientific Certific...

Boyle, AB - Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. (Al-Pac), a private company in northeastern Alberta owned by Mitsubishi Corporation (70 per cent) and Oji Paper Co. Ltd. (30 per cent), has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) accredited certifier, ...