India's second-biggest software firm, Infosys Technologies, has offered its top 50 employees an option to work with NGOs & earn half their income. On the other hand its hiring plans toll.

A Swiss supermarket chain aims to reduce the number of old CDs and DVDs landing in the regular trash by recycling them into motorcycle helmets.

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has set an far-fetched target to sell 3 million OLPC laptops in India by end of 2009.

In a new programme centered on Earth Day, eBay is becoming the latest company to promote its green credentials.

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Indian business moguls bust the buzz about recession with wholehearted charity and make it to the top 48 Forbes philanthropy heroes’ list.

Germans throw away about 24 million mobile phones each year. It adds up to almost a half-ton of gold that can be melted out of the circuitry of discarded mobile phones and computer. The precious-metals refinery that Norddeutsche Affinerie operates in Germany, is running at full speed forging gold bars out of the carcasses of German mobile phones and PCs.

Nokia has collected 3 tonnes mobile waste within 45 days. With most Indians changing their mobile handsets every 18 months, the need to find safe ways to dispose of old mobile phones has grown.

Suzlon Energy, wind turbine manufacturer and the world's fifth largest turbine supplier, is now the global/ world-wide sponsor for the news broadcaster CNN International's capsule on environment preservation, Eco Solutions.

In January the Japanese space agency, JAXA, launched Ibuki, the first satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide and methane. Later this month the American space agency, NASA, is due to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), which is also designed to monitor carbon dioxide.