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Average Voter on Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:09:56 PM
GreenBiz.com says American companies are just not moving towards the green fast enough.
Makower and his fellow editors at GreenBiz.com compiled a set of indicators measuring various aspects of green business, ranging from paper use and toxic emissions to building energy use and employee commuting. The group then assigned each indicator a symbol to represent progress: a "sinking," symbol means a measure is losing ground; a "swimming" icon indicates progress is being made; and a "treading" symbol shows an indicator holding its own.
Kind of sounds like our color-coded system for our national security levels.
In half of the measures — 10 of the 20 indicators — the verdict was "treading," as progress was lacking or be slow, or at least too slow to address the magnitude of environmental challenges.
There are bright spots, including eight indicators deemed "swimming."
Two of the indicators were deemed "sinking."
We just need to do what Switzerland is doing and Tax ourself as punishment.