the green bin

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“HP uses too much packaging.” “HP still uses toxic chemicals in its products even after agreeing to stop using them.”  Despite the recent attacks from green Blogs and the roof-top protest by (more…)

25 large, multinational companies have been chosen as the finalists for the Greenest Companies of 2008, honored by Natural Health Magazine at the Natural Health Green Choice Awards.  The 25 finalists are conserving energy, saving water, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, shrinking carbon footprints, and reducing waste at unparalleled levels. They are also contributing to huge improvements in alternative energy and encouraging their employees (around 3 million combined) to embrace sustainability (prnewswire.com).  From the 25 finalists, 10 winners will be chosen and presented by Ed Begley, Jr. at a  cocktail reception on May 5, 2009.

To give you an idea of what these 25 companies are doing or have done to go green, I have done some research on each company and have listed each finalist with a brief description of one of their green initiatives and/or contributions.  Here are the finalists:

They launched a “Recycle Caps with Aveda” program, that will collect bottle caps through Aveda stores, beauty salons and schools. The company started this recycling program by first collecting caps from employees and their families, which were made into tops for the limited edition retro Clove shampoo. The shampoo’s bottle will also include 96 % (more…)