4 tips for fostering a sustainable company culture

Enhance your employees’ lives in the process.

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Life-giving nutrient becomes a deadly pollutant

In the process of producing food, we’ve inadvertently filled our planet with toxic forms of nitrogen.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Helpful tips on making an eco-friendly home

Whether you’re planning to build a home or spruce up an existing one, it always pays to consider the environment in the process. Incorporating eco-friendly features not only reduces your carbon footprint , but it can also help lower your utility bills by a large portion. Senator Windows put together a collection of helpful tips and reminders on how to go green, as well as some industry insights from experts who shed light on the worst energy hogs in the home. Read the rest of INFOGRAPHIC: Helpful tips on making an eco-friendly home

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Earth911TV: Moving Towards Zero Waste

Zero Waste can be an intimidating phrase for a lot of people! It’s the process of making sure all products are reused in some way or another. The end goal being that no trash is sent to landfills or incinerators. The Zero Waste International…

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This new material could efficiently turn greenhouse gases into fuel

Many scientists have been eager to explore the concept of carbon capture  – and especially the concept of transforming greenhouse gases into methanol – for several years. It’s an encouraging concept for sucking carbon emissions out of the atmosphere, slowing global warming and creating handy biofuels in the process, but so far the technologies that would accomplish this transformation haven’t been particularly efficient. But new research by the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory  has developed a copper-based material that could make the process a realistic possibility. Read the rest of This new material could efficiently turn greenhouse gases into fuel

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When do energy auditors get to eat and sleep?

Retroficiency aims to help  speed up the process of making buildings more energy efficient.

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When do energy auditors get to eat and sleep?

Sustainability fatigue, disruptive innovation and the flourishing enterprise

"Embedded Sustainbility" author Chris Laszlo explains where real disruptive innovations will come from and why companies are adding "flourishing" to their vocabularies.

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Solar adoption gets a boost with Geostellar

The Washington, D.C., startup is bringing more transparency to the process of solar installation for homeowners.

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Solar adoption gets a boost with Geostellar

Smart parking: A launchpad for intelligent transportation

There are 4.5 parking spaces for every vehicle, but it's still hard to find spots. What technology will change that?

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Can suppliers meet retailers’ rising sustainability expectations?

As retailers lay out their sustainability expectations, suppliers often experience  five stages of grief  — from denial and anger through bargaining and depression and finally to acceptance of the inevitable. Here's how they move through the process.

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