May 8th, 2013 
Eric Wilson 
My wife and I recently ended a 5-month long home search. Our parameters were a bit tight. Between budget and location, we automatically discounted a number of homes. We have one car and wanted to keep it that way for sustainability reasons (financial and environmental). We looked for a place close to the bus line [...]
January 20th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
As I mentioned a few weeks ago in my suburban experiment post, my wife and I are renting a place; one half of a duplex where the landlord lives next door. It’s convenient in a number of ways, but as outlined in that post, there are trade-offs. Renting someone else’s home is always tricky. Currently [...]
July 5th, 2012 Chris DeArmond Los Angeles recently became California’s 48th city/county (and the largest in the nation) to approve banning plastic bags at retail checkouts, joining other cities including Washington, D.C. and Seattle. The ban, which is ultimately designed to encourage wider adoption of reusable bags, requires retailers to charge customers 10 cents for each paper bag they use. [...]
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Tags: Chemicals, Chris DeArmond, Environment, Los Angeles, Plastic 
No Comments » April 7th, 2012 Eric Wilson In the vein of honesty, the three words under our logo, “People. Planet. Profit.” are not our own. John Elkington is credited with coining the phrase. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has swapped out “profit” for prosperity and rearranged the phrase, also known by the shortened “P3″. Under the umbrella of P3, EPA is running [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Eric Wilson, Green Products, Sustainability Tags: Calendar, Chemicals, Energy, EPA, Triple Bottom Line, Washington DC, Water No Comments » February 20th, 2012 Eric Wilson NEWater, Singapore’s treated wastewater that is used to provide drinking water to the residents of this island nation, has been around for more than a decade. (See the most recent Five Friday Facts for more information). In the United States though, the idea of incorporating water that comes from treatment plants has yet to catch [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, News Tags: California, Chemicals, Denver, Elizabeth Royte, Wastewater, Water No Comments » February 7th, 2012 Megan Stilley I was browsing the cereal aisle recently and looking at a non-organic cereal (bad I know). While scanning the ingredient list (something you must always do!) I noticed an ingredient I had not heard of- BHT. I was really curious what it was so I decided to do some research. What is BHT? Butylated hydroxytoluene [...]
January 27th, 2012 Eric Wilson As a follow up to yesterday’s post detailing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) most recent Toxics report, comes today’s Five Friday Facts. The EPA compared many of the 2010 figures to 2000. The facts below come from Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins (the latter two are co-founders of the Rocky [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Recylcing Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Chemicals, EPA, Landfill, Natural Capitalism, New York City, RMI, Waste, Wastewater No Comments » January 26th, 2012 Chris DeArmond Every year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which provides emissions data on 650 toxic chemicals, as well as information on waste management and pollution prevention practices of industrial facilities around the country. Data from TRI show that while releases and disposals of hazardous chemicals grew by 16 percent between [...]
September 22nd, 2011 Eric Wilson The first Five Friday Facts of the month centered on the economic impact of environmental regulations on the economy. If not for President Obama’s announcement earlier this month that the administration has withdrawn support for tighter regulations on smog and air pollution at the risk of harming economic growth, this would not be an issue. [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, President Obama Tags: Chemicals, Economy, Pollution, Public Health, Quotations, Regenerative Economy No Comments » September 19th, 2011 Eric Wilson Reports out of China indicate protestors are upset over pollution from a local solar panel manufacturer. The producer in question, JinkoSolar, has been accused of polluting a river as a result of runoff from the plant carrying waste laced with harmful chemicals. The New York Times reports that “residents claimed runoff from solid waste laced [...]
Posted in China, Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, News, Renewable Energy, Sustainability Tags: Chemicals, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Pollution, Solar Energy, Water 1 Comment »
