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Where Are All The Energy Star Slot Machines?
Why has the U.S. gaming industry -- a $32 billion dollar sector -- been ignored by sustainability ranking and assessment organizations? Read More
The Power of Positive Feedback Loops
Understanding the interplay between positive and negative feedback loops is crucial to our ability to create a social and economic New Normal as we confront the New Normal in nature. Read More
Chipotle Earns the First LEED-Platinum Certification Awarded to a Restaurant
A Chipotle Mexican Grill in Illinois with its own wind turbine and a 2,500-gallon underground water cistern to harvest rainwater was certified by the U.S. Green Building Council at the organization's highest rating. Read More
Growing the Future of Bamboo Products
Bamboo has spread into the world of consumer products as fast as it grows in the wild, but the higher demand opens the door for overharvesting, price fluctuations and quality issues. BooShoot Gardens is on a mission to ensure the world's supply of bamboo stays sustainable by cloning bamboo plants and even trying to get bamboo growing again in the U.S. Read More
DOD Enlists GE for $2M Project to Make Military Base a Smart Microgrid Model
General Electric, the world's largest industrial company, will work with the Department of Defense in a $2 million project to transform the Twentynine Palms facility, the world's largest Marine Corps base, into a model smart microgrid system. Read More
Four Steps to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Organization
Companies want to ensure the greatest environmental and economic return on each dollar (and hour) spent on sustainability. So which individuals or groups can you influence to support your sustainability efforts? Which individuals or groups pose the greatest business risk with respect to your environmental performance? Where do you start? And what do you do? Read More
Eastman Earns Cradle to Cradle Certification for 10 Polymers
McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry has given Cradle to Cradle Silver certification to 10 of Eastman Chemical Company's polymers, which are used in a variety of applications like pens, toys, plastic bottles and shrink wrap. Read More
Can Mud Make the Perfect Biofuel?
In the search for a clean, planet-friendly fuel, the startup Qteros has discovered and refined a microbe it calls the Q Microbe that turns biomass -- switchgrass, wood chips, grass, corn stover or even municipal liquid waste -- into ethanol. Read More
E-Waste: When Landfills Are Not an Option
Environmentally focused companies, such as Marriott and GlaxoSmithKline, are taking a hard-line approach to e-waste management, investing time and money to ensure that every piece of obsolete technology is recycled or refurbished in an environmentally appropriate manner, not dumped in a landfill is China. Read More
My search for the Woodstock baby
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair of August 1969 gave birth to lots of things, but no babies. Read More