May 10th, 2013 
Eric Wilson 
As part of a recent business trip, I flew Delta Airlines. Flying is rife with environmental concerns, but it’s not going away. Here’s what Delta has done to green their practices: In-flight recycling: To date, Delta has recycled more than 7 million pounds of aluminum, plastic, and paper products onboard that would have otherwise been [...]
March 18th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
Upon finishing the Overture, the preface essentially, to Alan Weisman’s Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, I was a bit depressed. Here was a book about a town in the desolate reaches of eastern Colombia. A town that strived to be an example of sustainable living amongst the harsh conditions of the llanos, savannas [...]
January 28th, 2013 Justin Manger 
The Bakken oil fields in North Dakota are releasing so much gas that, according to The Financial Times, oil companies at the heart of the US shale oil boom are burning off enough gas to power all the homes in Chicago and Washington combined. In the photo from space at the bottom of this post, [...]
January 18th, 2013 Eric Wilson Prior to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, we wrote about how the village was planning to extract waste heat from the sewer system to provide a sustainable solution to heating the housing for athletes. Last year, a company in Brainerd, MN set out to accomplish a similar goal. Now we bring you a Five Friday [...]
December 24th, 2012 Sean Connell The Evergreen State just got a little greener. According to the Washington State Department of Ecology, Washington’s recycling rate reached 50.7 percent in 2011. It is the first time that the state has reported a recycling rate of more than 50 percent, achieving a goal originally set by the state government in 1989, and far [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Recylcing, Sustainability 
Tags: California, Recycling, Sean Connell, Washington State, Waste 
No Comments » December 24th, 2012 Justin Manger 
Over 20 years, the recycling rate in the U.S. has gone from 10% to 30%. Related to this point, Progressive Economy has yet another interesting trade fact for us. Though a net importer, the United States does have sectors that export more than they import. Those include aerospace, software, and grain as well as scrap and [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, China, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, Recylcing Tags: Environment No Comments » December 3rd, 2012 Sean Connell When the topic of international collaboration around innovation is mentioned, waste management is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Yet from an environmental and local government management perspective, developing solutions to the always-vexing issue of waste reduction and disposal looms high on the agenda for challenges that often can benefit from innovative [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Green Economy, Japan, Policy, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Asia, Composting, Environment, Indonesia, Innovation, Japan, Keys to Sustainability, Local Government, Public Health, Recycling, Sean Connell, Waste No Comments » November 30th, 2012 Eric Wilson During a recent stay at the Emory Conference Center (on the campus of my alma mater), I saw an interesting sign talking about the lack of telephone books in the rooms. While I can’t recall having one in my hotel room previously, the signage regarding the amount of resources saved was astonishing. Here are the [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Recylcing Tags: Emory, kilowatt-hours, Water 1 Comment » November 28th, 2012 Justin Manger 
Since 2007, when Levi’s conducted a life-cycle assessment of some of its major products, the company has become increasingly conscious of the sustainability of the raw materials it uses to produce its clothing. In response, the company is making changes to become more eco-friendly. Last month, according to Business Week, Levi’s introduced its first line [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Green Products, Justin Manger, Recylcing Tags: Energy Conservation, Green Product, Green Technology No Comments » October 10th, 2012 Max Caughron Still far from the replicator technology in Star Trek, reasonably affordable commercial 3D printers like the $2000 MakerBot and $1300 Cube are still for the hobbyist but is quickly moving away from design laboratories and proof of concept exhibitions and into the consumer market. A 3D printer is what it sounds like it is, instead [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Business, Clean Technology, Green Building, Green Economy, Green Products, Recylcing Tags: 3D Printing, Goop, Max Caughron, Waste No Comments »
