News Releases
- December 26, 2002
- Manufacturers to Label All Mercury-Containing Lamps
- Fluorescent lamp makers, including General Electric,
Slyvania and Phillips, will soon be required by Vermont law to label all lamps
containing mercury sold in-state. Yet many lamp makers are now expected to
label all of the estimated 600 million mercury lamps sold each year across the
U.S., according to recent news accounts attributed to their representative.
And, after losing a 5-year court battle, lamp makers who opposed efforts by
tiny Vermont to "purport to dictate worldwide lamp labeling requirements"—are
soon expected to label their toxic lamps sold globally, say activists.
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- December 20, 2002
- In the Lap of Mt. Everest: The Namche Conference, May 24-26, 2003 (call for participants)
- The Namche Conference
("People, Park, and Mountain Ecotourism"), will be the highest
international symposium ever held. The primary venue, Namche Bazar
(3450 m; 11,320), is the gateway village inside Sagarmatha National
Park, Nepal; an optional Rapid Overview Trek will include visits to Everest
Base Camp and Kala Pattar (5500m; 18,000)
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- December 19, 2002
- Pacific Sands (OTC BB: PFSD) Introduces New, Nontoxic, All-Purpose Earth and Health-Friendly Cleaning Product, "House Bright"
- Pacific Sands, Inc. (OTC BB: PFSD)
is pleased to announce that it will launch its first entry into the household
products marketplace in February of 2003 with "House Bright."
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- December 19, 2002
- ENVIRON Holdings, Inc., Establishes CarbonVentures International
- Joseph H. Highland, Ph.D.,
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of ENVIRON Holdings, Inc., (EHI)
is pleased to announce the establishment of CarbonVentures
International (CarbonVentures), a wholly owned subsidiary of EHI.
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- December 18, 2002
- Message from the Future Regarding Climate Change
- Generations, in the not-too-distant future,
may well look back on us living in the first decade of the 21st century --
especially in the US -- and find themselves overwhelmed with anger. They
may ask:
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- December 18, 2002
- Tembec Completes Implementation of Industry-leading Environmental Monitoring System
- T4G Limited, a premier
North American full-service technology consulting company, and
Washington- based Moore Environmental Solutions, announced today the
successful implementation of a new, cost-effective environmental
management information system at Tembecs Spruce Falls operations
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- December 18, 2002
- Food Scraps to Fine Wine
- Vineyards in the heart of California's
wine country, including Napa, Sonoma, El Dorado and Mendocino
counties, now use compost made with food scraps from San Francisco's
finest restaurants to improve soil quality and grow better grapes for the
production of fine wines
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- December 16, 2002
- opsEnvironmental to Streamline Corporate Environmental Metrics Reporting for Toyota
- Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS)
has selected the opsEnvironmental software package from ESP (Environmental
Software Providers) for corporate-wide environmental data collection and
reporting, along with services from EDSG (Environmental Data Solutions Group,
LLC). opsEnvironmental is an enterprise level environmental management
information system (EMIS) with modules for air, water, and waste management.
The software will be implemented in over 40 TMS sites across the United States.
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- December 13, 2002
- United Nations Release Report on Global Mercury Pollution
- Health, consumer and environmental
groups from around the world expressed support for the United Nations
report recommendations to not delay international actions to reduce
global mercury pollution
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- December 12, 2002
- Pacific Sands, Inc. Enters Pet Care Market With Nontoxic "Tropix' Line
- Pacific Sands Inc. (OTCBB:PFSD)
is pleased to announce that it is entering the domestic pet care
marketplace with its new "Tropix" line of nontoxic, earth and health friendly
pet care products
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