Source: The New York Times

TerraCycle prides itself on making a product that its co-founder, Tom Szaky, calls “green to the extreme”: its base ingredient is made by feeding trash to worms and collecting their nutrient-rich wastes, a process that he perfected using dining-hall refuse as a student at Princeton University.

Reuters

Most consumers want companies to do more to protect the environment and reckon that firms should play a leading role in fighting global warming, a worldwide survey showed Tuesday.

The poll, of 28,000 Internet users in 51 nations by The Nielsen Company, showed that corporate commitment to green ethics is playing “an increasingly influential role in consumers’ purchasing behavior,” Nielsen said.

Green Biz

Thirty-one percent of Chinese consumers rated the environment a higher priority than the economy compared with 17 percent of consumers in the U.S. and 28 percent in the U.K., according to recent surveys.

The findings of green brands research in China and their comparison with results of similar surveys conducted this year in the United States and Britain were presented yesterday at the Economist Conferences’ Fifth China Branding Roundtable in Beijing.

The Globe and Mail

Canadians are finally scaling back on their gasoline consumption in response to soaring prices, retail sales figures released Tuesday suggest.