Now that the Vancouver Olympics are just a wonderful memory, lots of materials are left to be dealt with.
Enter Mannington Commercial who plans to take the almost 200,000 square feet of graphic wraps, made by 3M Canada, that were used for advertising during the 2010 Winter Games and will turn them into commercial flooring. These wraps were wrapped [...]
Categories: Exciting New Developments
Tags: healthcare, Olympics, recycled, Sustainability, Vancouver
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have named Kohl’s Department Stores the 2010 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for Energy Management for the company’s commitment to energy management and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Selected from more than 17,000 organizations that participate in the ENERGY STAR program, Kohl’s will receive the [...]
Categories: Making a Difference Tags: carbon emissions, energy, energy star, EPA, green, greenhouse gas emissions, Kohl's, Sustainability, sustainable
Top consumer goods manufacturer Unilever has reportedly told dealers to stop buying palm oil from Indonesian planter Duta Palma due to concerns over rainforest destruction.
Unilever, who has been one of the world’s foremost palm oil buyers, halted their contract with the planter shortly after a documentary aired by the BBC which showed Duta Palma staff clearing rainforests for [...]
Categories: Sustainability Tags: BBC, environmentalists, green, palm oil, Rainforest, Sustainability, sustainable, Unilever
Congratulations to Chris Dowsett this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week!
Chris is our first winner from south of the equator – being from Australia. We met Chris on-line after checking out his cool website and learning about the excellent work he has done both at home in Australia, and also here as he is [...]
On a trip up the California coast to Jenner (where the Russian River pours into the sea), I saw harbor seals, great barrel-shaped waves, and tremendous flocks of birds fighting the fierce Pacific winds.
I also saw an example of modern conservation in action: a fisherman and abalone diver who agreed that the current Marine Life [...]
Categories: Fisheries Uncategorized Tags: bluefin tuna, california, conservation, Enviornment, fishery, fishing, jenner, marine, marine life protection act, MLPA, MPA, north coast, sea otter, Sustainability, trawl, trawling
Bringing you a round of some of the most interesting articles from the past week…. Plus a fun nature picture from our editors!
1. More evidence than ever for the color of dinosaurs, from the NY Times.
2. What is the value of biodiversity: is it a right to exist, the need for balance, is something [...]
Categories: Uncategorized link share Tags: alternative energy, biodiversity, dinosaurs, Enviornment, fuels, green, links, Sustainability, whales
Driven by consumer demand, more corporations are adopting sustainable business practices, Retailers carrying food products are particularly engaged in this process.
Recently, Target and Safeway announced that they would discontinue carrying farm-raised seafood and switch to wild caught. Environmentalists have been pushing for this, criticizing that net-pens salmon farms, which release pollution, chemicals and parasites into the [...]
Categories: Making a Difference Sustainability Tags: conservation, ecosystems, environment, environmentalists, oceans, pollution, salmon, Sustainability, sustainable
While in Costa Rica last Fall, I wrote a number of posts about that country’s ongoing commitment to sustainability. In
one of them I mentioned Costa Rica’s goal to become the world’s first carbon neutral country.
According to Environment and Energy Minister Roberto Dobles, Costa Rica will achieve this using budgeting, laws, and incentives, such as promoting biofuels, hybrid vehicles, and clean energy. This Latin American country already embraces [...]
Categories: Making a Difference Sustainability Tags: biofuel, Carbon, carbon emissions, carbon neutral, clean energy, co2, energy, environment, hybrid, Sustainability, sustainable
Lynn White Jr., in “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” wrote, in 1967, “More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecologic crisis until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.” Much of modern Christianity teaches that the earth was created for people to [...]
Environmentalism with optimism? Most people I know in the environmental field have less optimism and more cynical views of where the world is headed.
So what happens when environmentalism becomes more optimistic?
For one thing, people are pushing for the elimination of sustainability, and the adoption of thrivability. Thrivability is a happy word – Thriving is better [...]
Categories: Green thinking Tags: environmentalism, living a life worth living, Sustainability, thrivability
