September 1, 2010 – 8:40 am
One mantra of the decade has been that small businesses can save money, increase sales, and improve brand and company value by implementing simple social and environmental business sustainability practices. This philosophy is so true. Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner of Taiga Company a sustainability consultant who works with small businesses and advises on [...]
August 17, 2010 – 9:30 am
One environmentally destructive practice, onto which a light has been shed due to the BP oil spill in the gulf is Oil Sands Development in Alberta, Canada. Oil Sands Extraction, according to a 2008 report, leaks approximately three million gallons of contaminated water into surrounding rivers and groundwater each day. Well, in addition to this, [...]
Call it range anxiety – call it what you want. Electric car drivers worry time and again that they won’t have enough juice to make those long trips. And so, as is too often the case, the question of pragmatism becomes a hurdle for greensters and those on the fence. As they continue to push [...]
Can green homes actually become affordable? “To stand out in a still sluggish housing market, more builders are beginning to offer average-priced, ultra-efficient homes.” Writes Wendy Koch a reporter and editor from USA Today. Green One Construction Services, based in Beaverton, Oregon, is currently working on a zero-net-energy development of eighteen homes designed to produce [...]
Every day that the chances for a Climate Change Bill drift further from the shore, the coal lobby becomes increasingly optimistic. Friends of Big Coal on Capitol Hill, however, are insisting that they put the partying on pause. The Fat Lady has not yet sung the song for the coal industry — and she probably [...]
A new facility in the UK, Adnams Bio Energy anaerobic digestion plan, using brewery waste and local food waste will begin producing renewable gas which can be used as liquid fuel among other things. Working in partnership with National Grid, the facility expects to generate up to 4.8 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year – [...]
Brilliant Cornell University Researchers say that they have found a solution to creating yet more proficient solar cells. Well, as it turns out, particular molecules found in blue jeans and some other ink dyes may be used in a process for assembling a structure called “covalent organic framework” or COF, which help to make cheaper, [...]
Because of disagreements about offshore drilling and immigration reform, a key Republican senator negotiating with Democrats on a climate change bill that it is “become impossible” to get the legislation passed right now. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is the one doing the complaining: “Regrettably, in my view, this has become impossible in the [...]
We are on the heels of the hot sunny summer season – and what with global warming, things are only going to be getting hotter. Let’s face it, you’re going to want something cold to drink – and if you’re anything like me, you’ll go for a beer. Since environmentalists love The Ancient Brew of [...]
Two congressmen will be holding hearings to investigate how well companies have responded to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – still stubborn to clean-up operations. U.S. Representatives Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak sent letters requesting the testimony of officials from BP America,Transocean and Halliburton. BP is the one who operates the [...]
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