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This is what brussel sprouts look like!!! This is a great perk. The newest thing to hit business, according to WSJ (apologies for going back on my word, but this is a nice little article), is the community garden at work. Your company invests the money in the landscaping, the employees help to tend [...] I saw this image in a great presentation called “Biomimicry An Action” by Janine Benyus at TED, by Dr. Adam Neiman. It takes a second to understand it, but the image on the left is the Earth with all the water on the planet in its own sphere. The second is the same, but it’s all [...] The difference between ‘old’ environmentalism and ‘new’ is dropping the guilt-laden should, and replacing it with could. Rather then harping on peoples weaker motivations, it’s all about inspiring them to be empowered and think creative, big, fun. Maybe nothing says sustainability=fun more than The PlayPump system. It’s a pump. Boooring. But, it’s also a kid’s round-about. The [...] I’m heading to El Salvador to make a film with the USAID mission based there. They have been doing mediation work in the country for years and are presenting their accomplishments to the national government in September. This project will be part of that. There is also supposedly a college nearby which features a course in [...]
Courtesy of Jaymi from Treehugger.com, we have some more info on the growing field of Atmospheric Water Generators that I wrote about last week. Firstly, there are LOT more models that I previously thought. Jaymi’s article names 7 different models, each with their own pluses and minuses. A big takeaway: the productivity [...] The new “DewPointe” water cooler (which is a real product that you can currently buy or lease) is a water cooler that gets its water supply not from the tap, nor an awkward 5 gallon upside-down jug, but instead from the air. Yes… the air. Is this OK!? Am I going to turn my office into a [...]
Calling it “Version 1.0″, the initial survey that kicks off Wal-Mart’s massively important, amazing, perhaps game-changing sustainability program that we wrote about last week is out! It’s really interesting and, in as nice of a way as possible, tries to nail its 100,000 suppliers balls to the wall (pick another metaphor for non-sports goods). [...]
Biiiiiig news from the world largest retailer today: soon ALL the products that are sold in their stores will be required to have sustainy labels on them, with information featuring total carbon footprint and water usage during production. Additionally, the companies will have to fill out questionnaires with information about waste generation, resource use [...] |
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