One way to encourage progress on a goal like energy reduction is to have a competition. Many of these competitions take place in the education sector. The ongoing Green Cup Challenge is one example. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has organized a number of national competitions, including the Battle of the Buildings and [...]
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Five Friday Facts: Industrial Waste
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 [...]
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Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Chemicals, EPA, Landfill, Natural Capitalism, New York City, RMI, Waste, Wastewater 
No Comments »EPA Publishes Toxics Release Inventory for 2010
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 [...]
The Rising Meat Consumption
January 18th, 2012 Megan Stilley A recent report from the Worldwatch Institute stated that global meat consumption is up 20% over the past 10 years. The report claims the majority of the increase is from developed nations and the expanding size of factory farms. In fact developed nations consume 80 kg (176 lbs) per person on average a year, while [...]
Game Day Challenge: College Football’s Other Season Long Competition
January 17th, 2012 Eric Wilson Last week the extended collegiate football season wrapped up with a one-sided victory by the University of Alabama over Louisiana State University. In the championship game matching two football powerhouses, there was little room for smaller schools to compete for the national championship against the proverbial “big boys”. Unlike the NCAA baskteball tourney – in [...]
My Issue with Keurig Coffee Cups
January 15th, 2012 Megan Stilley The new rage is K-cups, also known as Keurig individual cups of coffee. Not only do these individual coffee cups have individual packaging that is not recyclable, it also has its own coffee maker that you have to purchase in order to use the K-cups. The idea of these coffee cups bothers me, deep down to [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Conservation, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Environment, Megan Stilley, Waste 6 Comments »Out with the New in with the Old
January 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few months back I had the opportunity to tour three LEED certified projects on three consecutive days. All three projects achieved LEED gold and were located in the greater Denver area. The following op-ed is a bit of a reflection on these visits and what it means to build green. They are listed in [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Site Visits Tags: Denver, EPA, LEED, Waste No Comments »Rethinking Food Waste
December 22nd, 2011 Megan Stilley I recently read an article in the Urban Farm magazine that discussed how to reduce your food waste. I found it very informative. Since we are currently in a season of consumption, we can all learn some new tips on reducing our food waste. We also need to reduce our food waste since according to [...]
