This week’s Five Friday Facts comes from Waste Farmers who were recently featured on 2nd Green Revolution. In 2005 the U.S. sent 25 million tons of food waste to landfills. The Greenhouse Gas impact of composting this waste is the equivalent of removing 7.8 million passenger cars from the road. Every year the average American [...]
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Indonesian Clean Energy Facts
March 19th, 2010 
Justin Manger President Obama is postponing his trip to Indonesia so he can focus on the domestic health care battle here in the United States. However, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke recently made a speech about Indonesia and their increasing economic cooperation on clean energy and in general with the United States. Here are a few interesting [...]
Five Friday Facts – IPCC
February 19th, 2010 Eric Wilson For a slightly different take on the Five Friday Facts comes the “virtually certain” impacts of climate change. This data comes from the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change) Summary for Policy Makers (PDF). Phenomenon and direction of trend Likelihood of future trends based on projections for 21st century using SRES scenarios Agriculture, forestry, and [...]
Five Friday Facts
February 13th, 2010 Justin Manger American household emissions come primarily from driving, electricity and home heating. Outside of America’s low-car outlier, New York, emissions from driving range from an average of 22,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per year in places like Providence and Boston (reflecting about 1,000 gallons of gas bought each year) to an average of 32,000 pounds of [...]
Five Friday Facts
February 5th, 2010 Justin Manger In his holiday letter to members, Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) mentioned some statistics that speak to the boom in green building: 27,373 people joined Greenbuild 2009 in Phoenix 14 million people are employed by a USGBC member company Of the 4,328 LEED-certified projects in existence, [...]
Five Friday Facts: Resources Saved Through Recycling
January 29th, 2010 Justin Manger A little post-consumer waste can go a long way. Hyperion Books saved the following resources by printing Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World on New Leaf Pioneer 100 for the text, and Neenah Environment 100 for the jacket. Both papers are made with 100% post-consumer waste fiber versus virgin fiber. [...]
Friday Fun: Green Comics
January 22nd, 2010 Justin Manger In our tradition of doing something a little different than just the normal posts on Fridays, here are a couple of comics with green themes for your enjoyment at the end of the work week. http://www.grinningplanet.com/environmental-cartoons/green-toons-comics-com.htm http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-06-19/ http://comics.com/frank&ernest/1997-07-31
Notable Quotations
January 15th, 2010 Justin Manger Instead of the usual Five Friday Facts, here are five thought provoking quotations. Feel free to comment and add to the collection. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved with the same level of thinking we used to create them.” – Albert Einstein “Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and [...]
