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3p Bound for Helsinki: Five Fast Facts About Finland by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Quick quiz: name five things about Finland. I’ll go first: reindeer, vodka, snow, Nokia, and … saunas. Pretty sad, right? For a bunch of world travelers we shoul ... Read on »
Copenhagen: Why Bother? by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living With little more than a week to go before the start of the COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen, the “Road to Copenhagen” starts to sound a little tired, ... Read on »
SolarClover: Simple and Affordable DIY Residential Rooftop Solar Energy System by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living One of the greatest barriers of entry for residential solar power systems has been the high cost of installation. And for some, another turn-off is the aesthetic of convention ... Read on »
Buy Nothing Day: The High Cost of a Bargain by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living This excerpt from The Price of a Bargain by Canadian journalist Gordon Laird is presented in honor of Buy Nothing Day. Happy anti shopping! For better and for worse, ours is t ... Read on »
The Monopoly Named Monsanto by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Monsanto is the largest seed company in the world. It controls 95 percent of the market for Bt and Ht cotton traits. In 2008, Monsanto had shares of up to 65 percent for trait ... Read on »
Whole Foods Invests in Mobile Slaughterhouses by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living This Thanksgiving, much attention has been paid to how your bird was raised, but how about the manner in which it was killed? The head meat buyer at Whole Foods, Theo Weening, ... Read on »
Putting Deforestation into Focus at COP 15 by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Rainforest degradation is the third largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and robs one billion of the poorest people on Earth from their source of livelihood. These ... Read on »
German PV Solar Industry Is Thriving by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Germany will add up to three gigawatts (GW) of solar power capacity this year due to a strong demand in the last part of this year, the head of Germany’s Bundesverband S ... Read on »
Black Friday? Buy Nothing Day? How About Buy Something Responsible Day? by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The idea of waking up at the crack of dawn the day after Thanksgiving to go shopping for trinkets among hordes of what seem like crazed zombies strikes me as a horrible kind o ... Read on »
Obama Announces He Will Attend COP15 Climate Conference by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The White House officially announced today that President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen to attend the COP15 climate conference, a commitment Obama has thus far been retic ... Read on »
KLM Flies into Sustainable Air Transport by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Is that the smell of bio-kerosene in the air? If you were one of the passengers on KLM Royal Dutch Airline’s first passenger flight powered by bio-kerosene this week, th ... Read on »
Tickling the Ivory . . . And Playing to a Deaf Audience: How Traditional MBA Programs Still... by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living By Martin Melaver Recently, I was invited to meet with the Dean of a prestigious MBA program. I didn’t haven’t the foggiest notion what he wanted from me. Still do ... Read on »
How to Change Careers: “Job’s Aren’t Hot, People Are.” by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living An increasing number of job seekers have been attending green jobs conferences and networking events and reading a burgeoning list of green career guides as part of an effort ... Read on »
Global Carbon Emissions Increased Despite Recession by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Despite an economic crisis dubbed the “great recession,” carbon emissions grew last year by two percent, to a total of 8.7 billions of carbon. Last year, every per ... Read on »
How a Subaru Plant Achieved a Zero Landfill Status by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) manufacturing plant in Lafayette, Indiana, became the first auto manufacturing plant to achieve a zero landfill status. None of the pla ... Read on »
Rethinking Landfills as Wildlife Refuges by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living By Wes Muir, Director of Communications, Waste Management Increasing urbanization has led to an increased desire for environmental conservation. Across the country, areas of l ... Read on »
Careers in Wind Farm Development: Meteorological Tower Services by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living This is the third article in a seven part series on careers in wind farm development. The first and second parts can be viewed here. Wind energy data is collected and analyzed ... Read on »
Green Car Rally: The Rookie Chevy Volt Versus the Veteran Toyota Prius by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living General Motors has been inundated in recent years with nothing but bad news. After filing for bankruptcy and receiving a controversial government bailout, the ailing car maker ... Read on »
The Eight Biggest Myths About Sustainability in Business by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Vijay Kanal of Kanal Consulting just posted a piece on GreenBiz.com titled The Eight Biggest Myths about Sustainability in Business. He kicks the piece off by saying, &ldqu ... Read on »
Postal Service Releases First Sustainability Report by Pablo P. Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The US Postal Service is in financial dire straits. It lost $3.8 billion in its most recent fiscal year, ending September 30th, and its available coffers are dangerously low. ... Read on »