Posts from ‘August, 2008’

Ever wonder what happens to traffic lights when they are replaced?  I did too.  Cities across the country are replacing older traffic lights with more energy efficient lighting, and they are dumping the old lights in land-fills.   A San Francisco company, Greenlight Concepts, stepped in and said “Oh no you don’t”!  They have reclaimed all [...]

When a certified organic pizza chain is born and spreads like lightning across the country, you know organic food has hit the pinnacle of mainstream.  Pizza Fusion is the world’s first restaurant chain to adopt organic restaurant certification.  Everything is organic.  Salads, sandwiches, soda, and of course the pizza are all organic.  The pizzas aren’t [...]

I’ve compiled a list of my top 5 favorite green businesses for 2008.   Its based on companies I found to be environmentally minded, innovative, and possessing the all important “cool” factor.  I have written about some of these companies here and others are first timers to Buddhalabs.com
1) Terracycle – They use worm poop to [...]

I was at my sister’s house tonight to celebrate my Mom’s 60th birthday.  Amid all the stimulating conversation, delicious food,  and chaos of a yellow lab and a three year old in the same room, I discovered something very cool!  As I awaited the birthday dinner to be prepared, I saw my brother-in-law huddled in [...]

Terracycle, a New Jersey based company, creates fertilizer using worm poop.  The worm poop is certified organic and is sold at home and garden stores, such as Home Depot, around the country.  The eco-friendliness of their product doesn’t stop there.  The bottles the fertilizer is packaged in are old soda bottles which are collected from [...]

Hiring employees in your green business?  You’ll want to make sure you’ve got an employee handbook that lists all your company policies.  Listing all your companies policies in a handbook offers some legal protection in the event an employee sues you for wrongful termination, discrimination, or harassment.   I found a great free resource on the [...]

Manufacturing cement is an energy intensive process.  Billions of tons of carbon dioxide are released into the air every year when cement is created.  Brent Contstantz, a Stanford University scientist, claims to have discovered a way to create cement by absorbing carbon dioxide instead of releasing it. Vinod Khosla, one of the most [...]

I love Jack Johnson’s music but until today I never knew how much he cares about the planet. Jack Johnson has his own record label, Brushfire Records, that is not only fair to the artists and employees who work there but also to the environment. When Brushfire Records is on tour with its [...]

Companies are going to great lengths to reduce their carbon footprint and implementing green initiatives in many facets of their business. Initiatives like using biodiesel or electric vehicles in corporate fleets, the use of recycled paper products, and providing labeled bins for employees to separate paper, plastic, and metals. Now companies (and consumers) [...]

Netherlands based Green Graffiti will charge you money to spray your message on public sidewalks, walls, and just about anywhere else there is dirt! These guys aren’t armed with spray paint and they are not running from the law! Green Graffiti uses high pressure water to “spray” your message on a dirty [...]