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Greening Hollywood: Ecopreneur Deirdre Wallace's Ambrose Hotel

Paige Donner | Posted 11.18.2008 | Green

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Paige Donner

"In building the hotel, we just made really smart choices. Not necessarily thinking, 'Oh, this is a green choice,' but thinking this makes sense on an economic level."

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Disappearing Bees Threaten Ice Cream Industry

Guardian | John Sterlicchi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Haagen-Daaz, General Mills, Honeybees, Honeybee Health Improvement Project, U.S. Honeybees, American Beekeeping Federation, Ice Cream Threat, Bees, Burt's Bees, Business News

The collapse of US honeybee colonies this year is set to devastate America's multibillion dollar agriculture and food industries. Last year about 750...

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$4 Million Burt's Bees Co-Founder Lives In Turkey Coop

New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: John Replogle, Clorox, Burt Shavitz, Burt's Bees, Clorox Company, Roxanne Quimby, Beehives, Burt's Bees Products, Bee-Man, Business News

In the summer of 1984, Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine, picked up Roxanne Quimby, a 33-year-old single mother down on her luck, as she hitchhiked t...

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