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Green Roofs
Historically, mankind has grown plants atop structures since ancient times. The ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia (4th millennium BC– 600 BC) had plantings of trees and shrubs on above ground terraces according to Heather Shimmin’s website: http://www.heathershimmin.com/a-brief-history-of-roof-gardens. What is a … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Guest Contributors, Opportunities
Tagged green roof, save energy
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Business Community Gets Behind Cleaner Energy and Climate Change Policies
The large rally on the DC Mall today offered a number of insights into the mood in the country for implementing cleaner Energy and Climate Change policies in the US. From the interviews I conducted the 40,000 plus crowd was … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Energy, Environment, People
Tagged business, carbon, Green
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Maryland General Assembly – Environmental Legislative Agenda 2013
It’s a new year and environmental issues abound in the Maryland Legislature. According to the League of Conservation Voters, www.mdlcv.org/issues, the hot ticket items for this year’s Environmental Legislative Agenda are: Clean Water Healthy Families Offshore Wind Marcellus Shale – … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Guest Contributors
Tagged 2013, bottle bill, clean water, Environmental Legislative Agenda, fracking, Maryland, Maryland General Assembly, wind power
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Learn about sustainability and eat well at MOM’s Organic Market
My wife and I have been shopping at the local MOM’s organic market for years due to the great selection of produce and the friendly staff. I also really enjoy all the signage they have touting their efforts toward becoming … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Business Profile, Energy, Marketing
Tagged carbon offsets, organic, wind
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Sustainable Growth’s 2013 Corporate Sustainability Plan
We are publishing here our 2013 Corporate Sustainability Plan as an illustration of how a small business can set goals to become more sustainable. We challenge you to do the same for your firm, no matter how large or small … Continue reading
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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
I vote for a ballot initiative that would make recycling mandatory
by Danielle Angeline Recent state ballots put recreational marijuana and gay marriage to votes. Why was mandatory recycling not included? Although opinions vary on making recycling mandatory, there is strong evidence that the environment, humans and animals would reap significant … Continue reading
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Tagged 66 days, aluminum, Danielle Angeline, diversion rate, diversion rates, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, glass, glass industry, habit, Howard County, mandatory recycling, Maryland, mixed, oversized recycling container, paper, participation, rate, rates, recycling, single-stream, UCL, University College London
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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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