Green company
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A green company acts, or claims to act, in a way which minimizes damage to the environment.
As global warming continues apace and becomes an increasingly "hot" topic amongst world governments, many companies are doing their part to become environmentally more responsible or "green".
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Examples
Automotive
Automotive companies like Honda, which is independently developing two new alternative-fueled vehicle technologies such as the natural gas powered Civic and a hydrogen fuel cell powered model, or General Motors, which is developing a potentially exciting new car called the Chevrolet Volt, are very much aware of the damage that petroleum-burning vehicles can do to the environment as a whole - global warming notwithstanding.
Cell phone
Other companies donate money to green causes, such as GoVios Going Green, which contribute a penny per minute of cell phone usage to environmental organizations. GoVios also stresses recycling used cell phones and their batteries as a way of keeping ground-water contaminating chemicals and heavy metals out of the environment.
Airlines
Commercial airlines explore ways to either cut back their fuel usage or reduce pollution from ground equipment. Continental Airlines has on staff approximately 13 full-time environmental specialists who explore ways the company can be greener. It has spent more than $16 billion during the past decade to make its fleet more efficient by upgrading to more efficient airplanes.
Doors and Garage Doors
Pella, Masonite, Marvin, Jeld-Wen and other top door manufacturers claim that their entry doors meet Energy Star requirements. That’s important. Entry doors represent an important source of energy waste in our buildings.[1] Ultimately, doors are an important cause of carbon emissions (buildings account for about 41% of our primary energy consumption and an almost equivalent amount of CO2 emissions).[2]
Petroleum
Suncor, a Canadian-based oil company, was named a top performer among 23 global petroleum-producing firms with its environmentally responsible greenhouse gas management programs.
Household
S.C. Johnson Company, maker of household items such as Windex and Ziploc plastic bags was environmentally aware long before it became popular to be so. Using its innovative "Greenlist" process which serves to evaluate what environmental impact certain raw materials used in producing its products can have, S.C. Johnson has been able to eliminate some 1.8 million pounds of volatile organic compounds and 4 million pounds of polyvinylidene chloride from commonly used household items.
Small-business partnerships
In 2009, Atlanta's Virginia-Highland became the first carbon-neutral zone in the United States. This partnership, developed by Verus Carbon Neutral, links 17 merchants of the historic Corner Virginia-Highland shopping and dining neighborhood retail district, through the Chicago Climate Exchange, to directly fund the Valley Wood Carbon Sequestration Project (thousands of acres of forest in rural Georgia).[3][4]
Controversy
Supporters of green companies claim that it is far more economical to go green than it is to continue adding harmful chemicals to the atmosphere and the environment in general.
Opponents believe that the environmental claims of "green companies" are often exaggerated and have variously raised accusations of greenwashing
