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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Appreciating the agricultural rhythms of a global trek
by Leigh Tillman Picking green beans yesterday got me thinking about picking green beans in New Zealand which led to reminiscing about different farms I’ve worked on while traveling. The green bean farm was all about picking green beans all … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Environment, Guest Contributors, Opportunities, People
Tagged cabbage, chai, Chai Wallahs of Maine, CSA, farm, farmer, green beans, Leigh Tillman, Maine, Maori fellow, New Zealand, picking
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Retro sustainability guru touts the virtures of breeze chimneys
Steve and Wanda Mouzon are the scary-smart and very entertaining principals of Miami Beach’s Mouzon Design, producer of town-building tools and services. Their house plans have been featured repeatedly as Home of the Month in Southern Living, Coastal Living, and … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Technology
Tagged breeze chimney, like a weathervane, Miami Beach, Mouzon Design, Steve and Wanda Mouzon
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Epicor advocates use of its ‘carbon accounting’ software with an eye to new regulations
by Charlotte Critchley Business planning software giant, Epicor, surveyed nearly 1000 companies worldwide to determine what they were doing in terms of carbon accounting. The results showed that most companies do not have carbon management at the top of their … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Environment, Guest Contributors
Tagged Australia and California, carbon accounting, Charlotte Critchley, Chris Purcell, enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite, Epicor, green agenda
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Global 100 list of the most sustainable corporations in the world includes eight American firms
Global 100 is a list of the most sustainable businesses in the world published by Corporate Knights, a Toronto-based magazine focused on clean capitalism, an economic system in which prices incorporate social, economic and ecological benefits and costs.
Posted in Business Management, Opportunities
Tagged Agilent Technologies, Baxter International, clean capitalism, Corporate Knights, Global 100, IBM, Intel Corp, International Business Machines Corp., Johnson Controls Inc., Life Technologies Corp., most sustainable businesses, MSCI All Country World Index, Novo Nordisk, occupy Wall Street, Proctor & Gamble Co., Prologis, sustainability, Toby Heaps, toronto
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Antibiotics in food will lead to a ‘public health crisis’
Urvashi Rangan, director of consumer safety at Consumer Reports, recently told CBS This Morning that the use of antibiotics in animal production is leading to a “public health crisis.” The meat and poultry business is America’s number one user of antibiotics, according … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, People, Technology
Tagged antibiotics, antibiotics in animal production, bacteria, beef, bladder infections, CBS This Morning, chicken, Consumer Reports, director of consumer safety, Food and Drug Administration, human bladder infections, poultry, public health crisis, Urvashi Rangan
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TerraLogos bundles remediation services with energy audits to the satisfaction of residential, commercial customers
TerrraLogos Energy Group, an energy improvement contracting company based in Baltimore, has emerged as a formidable player in a crowded field of firms that offer residential and commercial building energy audits.
Posted in Business Management, Business Profile, Energy, Environment, Opportunities
Tagged air sealing, energy audit, geothermal, HVAC, insulation, Mariner Financial, Maryland Clean Energy Center, Peter Van Buren, solar, Terra Logos Energy Group
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Sustainability = National Security
This is about our national security. It’s about preserving America’s socioeconomic superiority in the world. It’s about securing our future. The Department of Homeland Security spends many millions of dollars every year to harden America’s assets and make our critical infrastructure … Continue reading
Derecho and the vampire load
People in my region learned a new term, derecho, on June 29. We now know that a derecho is a fast-moving cold front laden with tremendous thunderstorms. My town saw straight-line winds gusting to 80 miles per hour. The Washington … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Opportunities, Technology
Tagged 1 Watt Initiative, derecho, flashlight, International Energy Agency, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory., LED indicator, power strips, standby power, vampire load
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How do America and Canada compare when it comes to sustainability?
Yesterday was Canada Day and it got me to thinking about our neighbors to the north. “I was only in Winnipeg for two days, and in a fairly isolated environment, so maybe I shouldn’t generalize my observations,” said my friend, … Continue reading
Posted in Opportunities, People, Technology
Tagged 2020, canada, Canada Day, Commuter Challenge, Environment Week, environmentally and energy conscious, Greenest City, July 1, Philly, sustainability quotient, Vancouver, Washington DC, winnipeg
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