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Repurposing surplus hospital furniture, supplies and equipment ‘makes good business sense’
“There’s a point at which storing furnishings costs more than it would to replace them. That’s where we step in,” said Hayley Brugos, medical outreach manager for Global Links, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit focused on recovering surplus items from hospitals and … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Opportunities, People, SGNewsletter
Tagged Baltimore, bed, developing countries, Environmental Excellence in Healthcare Conference, Global Links, Hayley Brugos, hospital, hospital bed, hospitals, medical equipment, medical supplies, medical surplus, nonprofit, Pittsburgh, surplus
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How small of a footprint?
How small of a carbon footprint is required to live sustainably? How much carbon is too much? What would our quality of life be if we wanted to be sure we weren’t contributing to climate change? Perhaps you’ve seen The Discovery Channel’s popular new … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, People, Technology
Tagged Alaska, Alaska: the last frontier, Atz, carbon, carbon footprint, carbon footprint calculator, Homer, Homer Alaska, How small of a footprint?, Kilcher, Kilchers, living simply, simple living, sustainable lifestyle, The Discovery Channel, TV show
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And the winner is…Iowa!
I don’t recall exactly how we got on the subject, but my teenaged son and I recently debated which state leads the way when it comes to renewable energy. My thought was it had to be a windy, sunny place. My … Continue reading
Maryland Science Center starts ‘science cafés’
As many of you already know, Ned serves as a board member for the Maryland Science Center. As part of that role, he will be involved in a series of Science Cafés over the next few months. Through a grant … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Opportunities, People, Technology
Tagged Andrea Weiss, backyard, backyards, Baltimore, board member, Cafés, Chesapeake, Chesapeake Bay, communities, community, crabbing, fishing, healthier communities, Healthy community, Maryland Science Center, Meyerhoff Family Charitable Fund, Ned Tillman, neighbors, recreation, Science, Science Cafes, shipping, The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action
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Ned Tillman will tell BBI members ‘There are some wonderful opportunities’ in Central Maryland
Sustainable Growth’s Ned Tillman was invited by Base Business Initiative to lecture on Sustainability Management Plans to members of the greater Fort Meade business community at a BBI Brown Bag to be held on Thurs., Dec. 13. “Several key decisions are being made by … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Opportunities
Tagged Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, BBI, BBI Brown Bag, BRAC, BRAC Business Initiative, business, business leaders, Carroll, Central Maryland, County, Fort Meade, Green, Harford, Howard, Kellyann Few, Montgomery, Ned Tillman, opportunities, Price Georges, sustainability, sustainable, Sustainable Growth
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Three common sustainability mistakes
“We reflected on nearly a decade of experience and came up with this short list of the most common miscues,” said Ned Tillman, principal of Sustainable Growth, a consultancy that focuses on helping organizations become more sustainable. Mistake #1 – … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Opportunities, SGNewsletter
Tagged Gorilla Marketing Goes Green, miscue, miscues, mistake, mistakes, Ned Tillman, Shel Horowitz, sustainability
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Will political wrangling and self-imposed silence ever end?
The prevailing opinion seems to be that President Obama will give energy and environmental policy more focus in his second term. After a hard-fought campaign in which both the Republican and Democratic candidates were conspicuously silent on global warming and … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Opportunities
Tagged 113th Congress, Carol Browner, Christine Todd Whitman, coal, coal and natural gas industries, conspicuous silence, end, energy, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, executive authority, gas, global warming, greenhouse gas, misinformation, more partisan, natural gas, Obama, partisan, political wrangling, prevailing opinion, public discourse, The New York Times
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Texas 85 MPH speed limit set to encourage use of new toll road, critics say
Texas lawmakers raised the state’s maximum speed limit to 85 MPH, making it the fastest in the country much to the chagrin of traffic safety and sustainability champions. The first Texas road to be posted at that speed is State Highway … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, People
Tagged 1974, 55 MPH, 65 MPH, 85 MPH, Austin, Bob Kaufman, Caldwell County, Jimmy Carter, Judge Tom Bonn, National Speed Limit, Seguin, SH 130 Concession Company, speed limit, State Highway 130, Texas, Texas Transportation Commission, toll, TxDOT, U.S. 183
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NYC Mayor Bloomberg breaks campaign’s pervasive silence on energy, environment and endorses Obama in the wake of Hurricane Sandy
In a move that blindsided most pundits, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg this week endorsed President Obama for re-election, citing the urgent need to address climate change. “The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, People
Tagged Cap and Trade, carbon emissions, energy, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Hurricane, Massachusetts, Mayor Bloomberg, Michael, New York, New York City, NYC, Obama, President, Romney, Sandy, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, White House, Yale Environment 360, Yale University
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Passive optical networks can lower electricity consumption by 57 percent
The veracity of a The New York Times story published last month on the vast demands for electricity associated with modern Internet data centers has been hotly debated on blogs and forums. In the story, Peter Gross, who helped design … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Business Profile, Energy, Environment, Technology
Tagged 57%, building owners, cable, Cannon USA, Charlie Weis, Columbia, copper, electricity, Finland, FiOS, Fredericksburg, Gartner Research, Google, LAN, Maryland, Melville, New York, Notre Dame, One Cannon Park, passive optical networks, percent, PON, REITS, The New York Times, Tom Napoli, TRM, Verizon, Virginia, WAN
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