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Can Energy Efficiency Help You Get a Job?
June 14, 2011 - White House Blog - Back in February, President Obama asked the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to help lead the Better Buildings Initiative to make American businesses more competitive by saving them about $40 billion per year in energy costs. The first question the Jobs Council asked, of course, was exactly how many jobs we were talking about here?
As of today, the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst released an independent study projecting that the Better Buildings Initiative would create more than 114,000 jobs – half of which would come from a new tax credit for building energy upgrades that the President proposed to Congress in his 2012 budget. That would mean new jobs for people like contractors, sheet metal workers, engineers, and architects.
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Becker Lane Organic Farm Now Certified Under the 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating System
AUSTIN, Texas, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Made with pork from Becker Lane Organic Farm, a certified Step 3 farm under the 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating system, Applegate Organics Uncured Thick Cut Bacon is now available exclusively at Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) stores in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin.
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Today's environmental tip: Get the lead out!
If you're doing work on an older home or school building, be sure to follow lead-safe work practices. Contain the work area and keep kids and pets away. Minimize dust. And clean up thoroughly. Lead is harmful to adults and children, and common renovation jobs like sanding, cutting, or demolition can create lead dust and chips. |
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NetGreen News Launches Wellness News Channel
Content is Aimed at Viewers Who Want to "Live, Think, Look and Feel Better"
EUGENE, OR, May 16, 2011 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- To answer the public’s growing demand for high quality health and wellness news,NetGreen News <http://netgreennews.com/> has launched NGN Health & Wellness, a high-quality video news service that provides engaging, original wellness content to viewers who want credible, well-presented information to help them improve the way they live and work.
“Health and wellness is a rapidly growing category of news content, but it's often presented in the forms of dry text and low-quality videos,” said Stanley Fields, president and founder of NetGreen News. “NGN Health and Wellness is about providing viewers with the latest information and is committed to high-quality production values that make stories easy to understand and memorable.”
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Whole Foods Market® Pledges a Clean Sweep By 2012
Eco-Scale™ Rating System sets new standards for green household cleaning products: New survey reveals 73 percent of consumers misinformed about labeling requirements
AUSTIN, Texas, April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Whole Foods Market today introduces its Eco-Scale™ Rating System – an industry-first set of tiered, green household cleaning standards – to help shoppers make smarter, greener choices for their homes and the planet.
Whole Foods Market is the first national retailer to provide its own comprehensive, color-coded rating system for household cleaners. Under the new evaluation system, products will be rated—red, orange, yellow or green—based on the specific set of environmental and sourcing standards each product meets. The company is committed to working with vendors to evaluate and independently audit every product in its cleaning category. Each product will be required to meet – at the very minimum – the new baseline orange standard by Earth Day, 2012. Red-rated products do not meet the Eco-Scale standards and will be reformulated or phased out of Whole Foods Market.
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