Queensland banks on Malaysia’s green business boom
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 Queensland backs up local companies that aim to pursue green business opportunities in Malaysia |
Green summer jobs available to U.S. teens
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 Teenagers wanting to earn good bucks during their summer breaks might want to consider going green. Cities such as Washington D.C., Cincinnati and Boston have opened up summer green job programs that would not only reasonably compensate their youth, but also sharpen their leadership skills and teach them more about the environment. Some of the green jobs offered can pay as much as every hour – almost more than the hourly wage of a regularly employed manager in a burger chain. |
U.S. Postal Service issues Go Green Forever stamp collection
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 The United States Postal Service may have received criticisms recently on its issuance of the Forever stamp collection – where the agency mistakenly used a Las Vegas replica of the Statue of Liberty and presented it as the New York version – but it did do green good in releasing their green Forever stamp batch yesterday.
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Olympic cities embrace sustainability in planning for green games
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 The host cities of all upcoming Olympic Games are taking sustainability seriously and have begun laying down guidelines for staging their own green Olympics. Even cities that are not scheduled to host the Olympics are adopting green building and sustainability steps through their own national Olympic committees.
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Exclusive: Green building for Japan: The Nakagin Tower preservation
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 In Tokyo’s well-off Ginza neighborhood stands the Nakagin Capsule Tower – a 13- and 11-storey twin-tower structure composed of 140 prefabricated capsule units designed to be replaceable. The Nakagin, built in 1972, was once hailed as an example of sustainable construction and architecture. It was designed to last for long – all the owners had to do was replace its capsules. That, in fact, did not happen. |
Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf top crash tests, found safe as they are green
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 General Motors’ Chevrolet Volt and Nissan’s Leaf earned the highest safety ratings in the United States Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s first-ever crash tests on mainstream electric cars, easing consumer concerns that car makers are compromising on safety to meet the car’s green promises.
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Solo, around-the-world sailing race goes green
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 CHARLESTON, South Carolina, April 21 (Reuters) – The sailors finishing the fourth leg of a grueling, solo yacht race around the world arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, this week with sunburned faces and tales of trials on the open seas. That’s typical fare for participants in the Velux 5 Oceans Race. But sailors making the current journey have tried something new: powering their boats’ high-tech electronics systems with sustainable energy from the sun, wind and water.
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Solo, around-the-world sailing race goes green
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina, April 21 (Reuters) – The sailors finishing the fourth leg of a grueling, solo yacht race around the world arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, this week with sunburned faces and tales of trials on the open seas. That’s typical fare for participants in the Velux 5 Oceans Race. But sailors making the current journey have tried something new: powering their boats’ high-tech electronics systems with sustainable energy from the sun, wind and water.
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Consumers will spend more for green from trusted brands – survey
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 NBCUniversal released the results of a series of recent polls on consumers’ green purchase habits and found out that while shoppers are willing to buy green and spend more for it, majority will only do so if the purchase will involve a trusted brand.The media and entertainment company’s Green in the Economy II poll showed that 68 percent of respondents believe it is worth paying more for a green product or service if it is offered by a brand they trust. |
Be Green Packaging LLC Announces New Facility in Jasper County
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – April 8, 2011 – Gov. Nikki Haley, the South Carolina Department of Commerce and the Lowcountry Economic Alliance today announced that Be Green Packaging LLC, a manufacturer of “green” packaging, will locate its new manufacturing and distribution facility in Jasper County. The company plans to invest at least .3 million and expects to generate at least 175 new jobs over the next five years, with the potential of more jobs and investment added during that time. |
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