Granted, it’s been difficult (obviously) not to focus hard on Wal-Mart’s recent announcements concerning social and environmental responsibility, but, as this article from ENN demonstrates, many retailers are moving towards more energy-efficient and sustainable stores. Retailers are among the busiest builders on the American landscape, and they receive criticism for everything from the style of [...]

Treehugger Warren McLaren makes a very cool find with The Art Gallery of Renewable Energy, a site that “…explores some of the art found on the internet that use or discuss renewable energy, specifically solar and wind energy.” A project of Canadian artist Lope, the Gallery serves as inspiration to other artists about the role [...]

Kevin Humphrey at Unplugged Living has started a new feature called Off-the-Grid Vacations which focuses on “…actual resorts, hotels, etc that are completely energy self-sufficient.” The first subject, Mexico’s Hotelito Desconocido, is now officially on my list of “dream vacations”: ‘Hotelito‘ generates it own power via solar means and that’s only used for indispensable resort [...]

Before I move on to other things, I wanted to make sure to thank Karel Sloane, author of With the Naked Eye (affiliate link), for contacting me about her fund-raising efforts for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in New Orleans. Karel writes environmental non-fiction, is a resident of New Orleans who lost nearly everything in the [...]

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks on the corporate front, and I realize I’m running the risk of overdoing the coverage on Wal-Mart’s recent moves. Still, at this point, this is big. CSRWire has published an article from SocialFunds.com noting that the socially responsible investment community “welcome[s] the potential changes while maintaining skepticism, noting [...]