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Local businesses in Cornwall are being asked to go green.
The organisers of Cornwall Business Week want companies to pledge to be more environmentally friendly.
Organised by Cornwall Pure Business and Cornwall Enterprise, the Grow Greener campaign encourages firms to reduce car use and turn off lights and computers.
More than 50 companies have already signed up, including BBC Radio Cornwall as part of its Planet Cornwall campaign.
The organisers are hoping to have many more pledges by the end of the week.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: All 10,000 schools nationwide have been directed to plant at least three trees each.
Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said he decided on this move as he was touched that children were concerned about the environment.
Hishammuddin also planted a sapling at the school.
His ministry, he added, would work with the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry on which trees would be suitable.
Deputy Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk S. Sothinathan, who was present, said his ministry would give full support to the project.
On the campaign, Hishammuddin said he was proud that a group of students from Malaysia, who were members of the Tree Theatre Group, had taken up the challenge of working with others all over the world to celebrate World Tree Day on Sept 27 next year.
The theatre group performed an eco-play and song titled Tears of Trees at the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Tunza International Children’s Conference on the Environment in Malaysia last year.
Source: thestar.com.my
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Anders Berglund is the co-owner of IKEA Seattle, the popular Swedish-based home furnishing retailer. Earth Share of Washington (ESW) recently interviewed Mr. Berglund regarding IKEA’s leadership in the areas of sustainable design, resource conservation, & forestry, and IKEA Seattle’s strides to become a better corporate steward of the natural world.
IKEA is probably best known for its cutting edge home furnishings at affordable prices, featuring modern designs with a Scandanavian flair. Perhaps lesser known are IKEA’s social and environmental initiatives. Their focus is on designing products that use fewer raw materials and create less waste. By working in close cooperation with their suppliers, they can monitor all aspects of a product’s life, from choice of raw material through production and distribution. IKEA does not accept wood from intact natural forests or from forests with a clearly defined high conservation value. Instead, they source all wood from verified, well-managed forests that have been certified according to a forest management standard.
This spring, Earth Share of Washington linked IKEA Seattle with the NW Biodiesel Network, so that they can begin to recycle the waste cooking oil from their cafe and turn it into biodiesel, a clean and renewable vehicle fuel.
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Source: esw.org
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Since we began our initiative to reduce plastic bag use in our store, charging 5¢ for each plastic bag a customer uses, we have sold 36,571 plastic bags, and that means $1,828.55 in money donated to American Forests! According to early estimates we are reducing plastic bag consumption by 80-90% at IKEA stores across North America. Thank you to IKEA Seattle customers for helping us “Bag the Bags” and help American Forests.
IKEA is asking our customers to join us in reducing plastic bags usage by 50% – from 70 million to 35 million in the first year. On March 15th, 2007 we began charging 5 cents for every “throw-away” plastic bag. All proceeds* from the first year of this program will be donated to American Forests, the nation’s oldest non-profit conservation organization, to plant trees and offset CO2 emissions.
WHY? The amount of plastic shopping bags that we all use once and toss is overwhelming…..
- The average family of 4 accumulates 1460 plastic shopping bags a year
- 100 billion are given away each year in the US
- Plus it can take up to 1000 years for a plastic bag to break down in the environment.
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE! IKEA has a great alternative to “throw-away” plastic bags- the IKEA Blue Bag. We’ve reduced the price on this large, reusable and durable bag to 59 cents. One of these bags can replace hundreds of “throw-away” plastic bags and has lots of great uses!
* A maximum contribution of $1,750,000 within 12 months
Source: ikea.com
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