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The Greener Guys

When Timberland, the outdoor clothing company, studied ways to reduce its carbon emissions four years ago, it weighed several options: building a wind farm in the Dominican Republic, buying power generated by renewable resources and setting up a vast bank of solar panels at one of its distribution centers in Ontario, Calif.

It chose to do all those things, but that was the easy part. When Jeffrey B. Swartz, Timberland's president and chief executive, considered how much carbon dioxide was produced in making leather for the company's famous boots…

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Not surprisingly, the biggest strides have been achieved by corporations with operations outside the United States. I.B.M. and DuPont, for example, have long had programs to curb their energy use. In doing so, they have managed to cut manufacturing costs while decreasing their emissions.

At DuPont, the savings from energy projects has totaled $2 billion over the last decade and a half. I.B.M. saved $115 million since 1998 by avoiding 1.3 million tons of carbon emissions, or the equivalent of taking 51,600 cars off the road, according to the climate change program at the World Wildlife Fund.

In regards to Timberland, kudos to them for doing so much for running a greener cleaner company, now if they could just shift some of their shoe/boot making jobs back to the U.S. Then there's that second part which I thought was important since we all often hear the argument that what's good for people and the planet is bad for business; apparently Dupont and I.B.M would disagree. - and speaking of some of the insane stuff in the media, where does Faux News find these nuts, Fox News analyst Jonathan Hoenig asserted that global warming was “bogus,”

It’s Hoenig that’s living in a dream land. Science Magazine analyzed 928 peer-reviewed scientific papers on global warming published between 1993 and 2003. Not a single one challenged the scientific consensus the earth’s temperature is rising due to human activity.

BlauGallery

This is a commercial site, but worth a visit for some creative inspiration if nothing else. As you can see from the partial screenshot there is a little of everything- graphic art, photography, fantasy-sci-fi. The illustration in the top center was done in Adobe Illustrator. I suffer from Illustrator skills envy to some degree so I was especially impressed with that particular work.

I found this at Techcrunch, Meet New (Random) Friends at Fo.rtuito.us

and unless you're looking for a chain of pen-pals I don't get it. It is not like sites where you set up a space and share stories, photos or film. Though maybe there is a need for that sought of thing. The site suggests that the point is that you wouldn't be choosing friends by their photo, but by the content of what they have to say. Certainly a virtuous goal to be sure.