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Should We Pick Our Customers?

 I have been thinking for some time about companies including sustainability credentials in picking who they want as their customers. I know, I know, readers who are sustainability practitioners are thinking now that they ...READ»

Kenan Samms

MillerCoors Might Be Sustainable, But Believable?

Last week, FastCompany’s Ariel Schwartz wrote an article about MillerCoors’ detailed sustainability report, and asked the question “Is MillerCoors the Most Environmentally Responsible Brewing Company?”  My immediate ...READ»

How to Turn the Dysfunctional Workplace into an Environment Where People Actually Want to Work

Are you ready to do what it takes to end the dysfunctions and create a can-do culture in your workplace? READ»

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Does a Film Festival for Green Movies Make Any Sense?

At first glance, the Going Green Film Festival, which claims to be the first film fest to focus solely on green filmmaking, seems reasonable. Films can be submitted only through the festival's Web site in three categories: Green ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Another Person Blogging About Sustainability?

The saying, “You can’t BS a BSer” is a reality to me.  My evolution from a wide-eyed journalism student to a PR “flack” has given me a little bit of an edge when it comes to the world of marketing gobbledygook. I ...READ»

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Pickens Drops Wind Plan, Cites Transmission Costs

T. Boone Pickens has dropped his much-ballyhooed plan, chronicled in our pages, to build the world's largest wind farm, in favor of a handful of smaller wind farms scattered around the Midwest. He cites many of the same factors that ...READ»

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A Tour of America's First Zero-Impact, Supergreen "Living Building"

The Omega Center for Sustainable Living is designed to make a LEED Gold structure look like a Superfund site. The $3.2 million Rhinebeck, New York, structure, which opens in July, will be the nation's first certified "living ...READ»

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The Microgrid Stimulus Package

Via NPR's Planet Money blog, a savvy reader puts together his own personal stimulus package by becoming part of the microgrid: Clay from Maryland writes: I think did everything right. (and I'm pretty lucky) I ...READ»

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Bike-Sharing: Cycling to a City Near You

Nearly every major city in the U.S. has plans for some sort of bike-share program, but there’s still plenty of room for growth.READ»

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