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ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND - An initiative to try to persuade a million rice farmers in Asia to stop spraying harmful and unnecessary insecticides is the winner of this year's St. Andrews Prize, the U.K.'s only international environmental prize. The St. Andrews Prize - a joint i...

DALLAS, Texas - Clean energy takes another step forward in Dallas today as The Winston School, Green Mountain Energy Company and Nuon teamed up to dedicate the city's largest solar facility and harness the power of the sun to generate pollution-free electricity.

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VERNON, British Columbia - Senior executives of Aquatic Cellulose (OTC:AQCI - News) recently returned from a successful month-long business trip to Brazil. The objective of the visit was to garner support from government, businesses and financial institutions for expansion o...

SACRAMENTO, California - Whistler, Inc. (OTCBB: WSLR) today announced the completion of co-ownership of The patents of Anuvu's (www.anuvu.com) Carbon-X fuel cell, an innovative Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell specifically designed for mass production. Anuvu Incorpor...

BEDFORD, Massachusetts - Spire Corporation (NASDAQ:SPIR), a leading supplier of photovoltaic manufacturing equipment and solar electric systems, today announced that it was awarded a $2.7 million contract to provide a SPI-LINE(TM) turnkey photovoltaic (PV) module production ...

ATLANTA, Georgia - GE Power Systems today officially entered the wind power industry, announcing that its acquisition of certain assets of Enron Wind Corp. has been completed.

The new GE business, GE Wind Energy (www.gewindenergy.com), will be headed by Steven Zw...

OTTAWA, Ontario - Commitment to community has long been a core value of co-operatives and credit unions worldwide. Now private and investor-owned businesses and banks are increasingly promoting their community contributions in the context of good corporate citizenship. The C...

SANTA BARBARA, California - Big Dog Sportswear (NASDAQ:BDOG) donated $100,000 to various charities through a fund-raising program sponsored by the Big Dog Foundation after September 11th. The name of the program: "Operation Rescue Dog."

Proceeds were distributed ...

CANTERBURY, United Kingdom - Leadership today requires balancing the desire to do good with the business imperative to do well. Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, the world leader in international business education, will examine issues i...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY) recently added two timberlands and three mills to its growing list of certified operations, moving the company closer toward its goal of having all its operations worldwide certifiable by 2005.

With the...