Finnigator's blogCollaborative Design Project: Global Supply Chain Heart
Wal-Mart Sustainability Index Assessment Questions
Wal-Mart is about to release its sustainability index. Here is the list of questions that they are asking their supply chain. The questionnaire is availible for download at http://walmartstores.com/download/3863.pdf ------------- Energy and Climate Reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions 1. Have you measured your corporate greenhouse gas emissions? (Y/N) 2. Have you opted to report your greenhouse gas emissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)? (Y/N) Common sustainability education piece: Indicators
Rich Products to sponsor 2010 summit
Rich Products to sponsor 2010 Environmental Youth Summit The Tata Nano, a positive step
When the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car entered the Indian market, Beginning to define the blue movement
I asked this question on LinkedIn. What tactics do you use to influence your co-workers to be green? The responses were either tied to eco-efficiency, painting the co-worker, and poisoning the co-worker. Anything to make them green. That being said, it had me wondering what exactly does it mean to be green? Does it mean being efficient with resources or working to improve the environment, improving the sense of place, or tackling issues of poverty. For some tackling poverty is green. However, on this continuum of action, green, in my mind, turns to blue. Fast Paced, Non Partisan Engagement
Civic engagement is a form of altruism, if altruism does exist. At its worst, civic engagement is self-promotion or a form of self gratification. At its best, it changes lives. In Buffalo, it is becoming a way of life. The change, I think, can be attributed to the following. Fast Paced, Non Partisan Engagement
Pay as you want?
Abstraction: Products exist on their own
A chair cannot be owned. I say this being aware that I own 4 in my own house, but ownership is a construct that tells me that I have the rights to that chair and its use. Those chairs exist with or without my presence. They can be used by someone else while they use it, but ultimately the chairs exist on their own. After consumer use, the chair will be introduced into the environment where it leaves my capacity to use it. It will decay and serve as a source of food for fungi. While I have the chair, it still interacts with the environment, just as it will after it leaves my presence. Forget commentary: organize
Cutting twigs, cleaning parks, clearing invasive species... these are the traditional tools of environmental sustainable management. The sources of the problems have already happened, and usually result in money and time to control the problem. A Fresh Blog on how to think "green":4Rs
"Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." Across the web, expert advice givers are inundating people with fish and requiring a lifetime of a man to consume all that fish. It is a situation that, just like rotten fish, stinks. This post presents a simple way to avoid all that reading and get to the source of advice. As-salting the roads: Rock Salt LCA
Oh Buffalo. It is a blue collar town down on its luck as its population has decreased over the last 50 years, but one thing remains the same. The city is at the conjunction between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and because of this unique geographical location, features one the world's seven wonders: Niagara Falls. This water however, is currently being as-salted (pardon the pun) by the street runoff that originates from melting snow and ice mixed with road salt. Overarching pathway to green
I have a tendency to be a big thinker and always attempt to put the bigger picture into usable and flexible models. Green is no exception, but in comparision with other forms of thinking, it is uniquely a melding of the scientific and the audacious. Let me explain how I came to this conclusion. Arizona State University is home to a Ph.d Sustainability program. Green Reality: Too many blogs
Green best practice: have only one blog, and love it... I am a living example of what might be considered a wasteful blogger. I have secret blog, dum blogs, academic blogs... and with each blog, I add to the greater web more v-waste, that is the technical term for virtual waste. I was thinking... http://aarongilbee.info/wordpress/?p=504
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