Francine Hardaway

Francine Hardaway

Working with startup technology companies, entrepreneurs, and social causes. Angel investor, business coach, mom, yoga practitioner, blogger, golden retriever fan, social media junkie. Connected woman.



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Product Stewardship in Food Production

Francine Hardaway, March 19th, 2008

BASF is a large chemical company trying very hard to help its clients in the food industry practice product stewardship. It has developed a tool for them that gives information not only on the composition of products, but on the way they are manufactured and the levels of sustainability achieved in production. The name of this initiative is SET, ... read more

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Tagged basics, ideas, noteworthy

Published in Garden


Beauty Industry Creates Standards for Organic Labeling

Francine Hardaway, March 7th, 2008

The beauty industry has formed a new industry association to back standards for eco-friendly products. What does this mean for you, the consumer? It means the industry took a survey last summer and 83 percent of the respondents thought there needed to be some kind of standard for products labeled "natural." So now 30 major brands and a host of smaller ... read more

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Tagged basics, ideas, noteworthy, productstewardship, recycle

Published in Hazardous


Railroad Practices Product Stewardship

Francine Hardaway, February 8th, 2008

How does a railroad practice product stewardship? Railroads transport many of the chemicals used in manufacturing processes. They are part of the supply chain for chemical companies. Therefore, to transport chemicals they can now get certified in responsible care management systems for the chemicals they transport. BNSF Railway Co. has been cleared to implement the American Chemistry Council's (ACC) ... read more

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Published in Hazardous


Investing in Green

Francine Hardaway, January 30th, 2008

Alliance Global Investors has just conducted a new survey of global environmental investing trends. The people who answered the survey have over $100,000 invested in the stock market, mostly in mutual funds. I looked at the survey to see what might interest us here at Earth911, and here are some interesting facts: 1)71% of the investors surveyed say environmental technology companies ... read more

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Tagged basics, energy, fuel, ideas, noteworthy, recycle, reduce

Published in General


Seeing the Christmas Trees Off to be Recycled

Francine Hardaway, January 8th, 2008

Every morning I walk the dogs in a different park. This morning I was out walking at Los Olivos Park in Phoenix, Arizona and I saw the big pile of Christmas trees about to be recycled. A City of Phoenix truck was picking them up and carting them away. This small incident made me proud to ... read more

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Published in Garden


Voltaic Solar Backpack

Francine Hardaway, December 28th, 2007

Everybody knows how much electricity we use with our gadgets, and how we hate the short battery life of every device. And the expense of batteries, and the pain in the butt of recycling them or properly disposing of them. Batteries are a real tribulation of modern life. But this Christmas I got the gift that may end this problem for ... read more

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Tagged basics, batteries, ideas, noteworthy, recycle

Published in General


Cutlery Made of Potato Starch

Francine Hardaway, December 4th, 2007

Vegware, a company in the United Kingdom now sells knives and forks made of starch and fiber. If you have ever eaten in a restaurant, especially a fast food restaurant, you know that tons of plastic utensils are discarded every day. These plastics are slow to degrade, if they degrade at all, and fill our landfills. Vegware wants to ... read more

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Tagged basics, greenstyle, ideas, noteworthy, packaging, recycle

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The Greenest Gift

Francine Hardaway, November 29th, 2007

Christmas is a time of year when we could seriously endanger the earth further, simply by trying to be good to each other and give each other gifts. I'm usually someone who likes to give the latest and greatest technology, like robotic vacuum cleaners or iPod shuffles, but this year I'm doing something completely different. I'm going to make ... read more

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