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Article: Firms slip into 'climate neutral'.(Features)(Work & Money)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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Everyone complains about global warming. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain, nobody does anything about it.
Now you can.
Thanks to a new certification organization, consumers and businesses can buy products and services that don't pump any new net greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Already, a Kennesaw, Ga., company is selling "climate-neutral" floor coverings. A Boston-based hotel chain is poised to offer climate-neutral rooms. And a California consumer-products company has become the first firm to get its operations certified as having no net negative impact on climate change.
The idea seems to be slowly catching on in corporate ...