NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly is about as good as it gets in the news radio biz, but she conducted a very weird interview the other day with reporter David Ferris of E&E News, an online news site that covers energy …
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From Guest Blogger Joel Smith: Four Tips for Creating a Greener Home
A green home is always a great choice. Not only is it eco-friendly, it also has healthy benefits for your family, so it’s really a win-win choice. It’s no secret that we all should work hand in hand to keep …
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We Should Help Our Top Corporations Embrace Sustainability
Obviously, a great deal of immorality exists in both our public and private sectors. Whether we’re talking about the purveyors of junk food, cigarettes, assault weapons, clothing made by children, or, more familiarly, oil and coal, it’s common for certain …
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Eco-Friendly Shower Calls To Mind a Basic Question
I’ve been in correspondence with a fellow in the UK about his invention: an eco-friendly shower using electrically heated water. The good news: it uses 80% less energy and 80% less water than the conventional approach. The bad news is …
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Sustainability Conferences at UCLA — Always Fascinating
There were some very thought-provoking presentations at the quarterly “Sustainability Partners Conference” at UCLA yesterday. At issue is a central question: does sustainability pay for itself? I.e., do companies that have vigorously and sincerely woven sustainability in their corporate DNA …
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Biofuel Plant in Nigeria
A reader from Nigeria sent me a business plan on an ethanol plant that would provide a far cleaner way for West Africans to cook their food than their current approach, which is a combination of kerosene and wood gathered …
Newscast on Aeroponics, Tower Harvest
Here’s a local newscast on aeroponics, featuring Doug Jacobs, Rafael Quezada’s business partner at Tower Harvest. The segment did a good job at getting at some of the key benefits: organic growing, eco-friendliness, locally grown, and bringing high quality food …
Must Eco-friendliness Come at the Expense of the Economy?
Here’s a wonderful article that gets at an issue I come across constantly: the implication that environmentalism and job growth are opposed to one another. Considering we have the option to put literally millions of people back to work in …
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