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Big, big companies have eaten up the Organic food industry...literally. The result? See for yourself.

Professor Philip Howard, Ph.D., from Michigan State University provides a breakdown of the "who owns what" questions to organic food companies, a helpful guide the next time you are out shopping. http://www.msu.edu/%7Ehowardp/organicindustry.html.

Thanks to www.grist.org for providing the link...

From an Intel press release:

Intel Corporation said today it will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates as part of a multi-faceted approach to reduce its impact on the environment, making Intel the single-largest corporate purchaser of green power in the United States, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The company said it hoped the record-setting purchase would help stimulate the market for green power, which should lead to additional generating capacity and ultimately, lower costs.

Resolution #2: Don't be mindfully wasteful -- Invest in a canvas shopping bag (or three)

From an IKEA press release:

IKEA and the environment

IKEA has always tried to do more with less. This goes hand in hand with our environmental work - to use resources in an economical and careful way.

Three cornerstones in IKEA’s environmental work:
· Our cost consciousness and resource efficiency result in less usage of raw material and less waste and discharges.

From ZDNet News, on retired General Electric engineer Ed Hammer:

"Consumers with an eye to conserving energy may be snatching those swirly compact fluorescent bulbs off store shelves now, but 30 years ago they were barely a shade away from crazy.