Thursday, May 8, 2003

EPA: Public Companies Hide Billions in Environmental Debt [RiskWorld]: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has disclosed that 74 percent of U.S. publicly traded corporations they surveyed openly violate the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) environmental financial debt accounting regulations. Another of the many ways we subsidize environmental degradation. What decisions would companies make if they had to pay -- or at least book -- the true costs of their actions. 9:28:04 PM    comment []  trackback []

Packaging Design Challenge The EPA Office of Solid Waste, and MBDC have announced a design challenge to rethink and redesign e-commerce shipping packaging for a cradle-to-cradle life cycle. The design challenge is specifically targeted at the shipping packaging associated with the suburban home delivery of Internet purchases of books, including systems for packaging recovery. 9:19:18 PM    comment []  trackback []