

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Following on Chicago's decision last week to ban the use of BPA in food and drink products for small kids, it's been revealed the FDA was reliant on chemical industry lobbyists for BPA analysis and news for nine years.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- A competition sponsored by Steelcase, Net Impact, and GreenBiz.com asked students to submit socially and/or environmentally beneficial product or business ideas to win admission to this week's event. Here are the winning ideas.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- 3M, the company behind the ubiquitous Post-It notes, secures new sustainable forestry certification through U.S.-based Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
The market for sustainable design has passed the tipping point and is
rapidly becoming mainstream. ENR's first Top Green Design Firms is an
attempt to bypass the marketing and hype and measure the market by
ranking designers based on their 2007 revenue from projects that were
registered and actively seeking certification from major third-party
environmental standards or ratings organizations. The ENR Top 100 Green
Designers generated $1.74 billion in revenue from such projects in
2007, $1.62 billion domestically and $121.2 million abroad.
Ths publication, available for purchase, includes a listing of the top 100 firms with information on revenue and market data, and lists of the top five green facility designs covering a variety of types of buildings.