Video of a great TED talk: http://tinyurl.com/5fqzv3
6/18/09
This is not a Plastic Bottle !?!?!?
Why is an environmentally conscience company like Cagwin & Dorward handing out plastic bottles to their employees?
In compliance with recent OSHA regulations, C&D employees have been receiving water bottles, as part of the Company's Heat Illness Prevention Plan. Although they appear to be plastic, they are actually made from wood pulp and other non-toxic, biodegradable materials.
Check out the nifty tag attached to the bottles. You'll find they perform just as you'd like any other bottle to:
• dishwasher safe
• microwavable
• large mouth to add ice
• made in the US
You'll also find that these bottles can be used indefinitely. But when committed to a managed landfill, microbes will find the material irresistible; causing the bottle to fully biodegrade in 1 - 5 years.
In compliance with recent OSHA regulations, C&D employees have been receiving water bottles, as part of the Company's Heat Illness Prevention Plan. Although they appear to be plastic, they are actually made from wood pulp and other non-toxic, biodegradable materials.
Check out the nifty tag attached to the bottles. You'll find they perform just as you'd like any other bottle to:
• dishwasher safe
• microwavable
• large mouth to add ice
• made in the US
You'll also find that these bottles can be used indefinitely. But when committed to a managed landfill, microbes will find the material irresistible; causing the bottle to fully biodegrade in 1 - 5 years.
6/16/09
EPA, HUD, DOT Form Partnership For Sustainable Communities
Collaboration is web of interconnectedness that may create social and economic systems that emulate ecosystems. Below is 1 example of this trend. The government agencies behaving like part of a system to eliminate competitiveness and siloism.
Create abundance through group think and building ideas to allow for a high quality of life.
(Originally posted on Environmental Leader)
Using six guiding “livability principles,” federal efforts in transportation, environmental protection and housing investments will be coordinated under a new partnership.
The Partnership for Sustainable Communities is a joint project of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to a press release.
The partnership’s six livability principles are:
1. Provide more transportation choices - Develop safe, reliable and economical transportation choices to decrease household transportation costs, reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil, improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote public health.
2. Promote equitable, affordable housing - Expand location- and energy-efficient housing choices for people of all ages, incomes, races and ethnicities to increase mobility and lower the combined cost of housing and transportation.
3. Enhance economic competitiveness - Improve economic competitiveness through reliable and timely access to employment centers, educational opportunities, services and other basic needs by workers as well as expanded business access to markets.
4. Support existing communities - Target federal funding toward existing communities - through such strategies as transit-oriented, mixed-use development and land recycling - to increase community revitalization, improve the efficiency of public works investments, and safeguard rural landscapes.
5. Coordinate policies and leverage investment - Align federal policies and funding to remove barriers to collaboration, leverage funding and increase the accountability and effectiveness of all levels of government to plan for future growth, including making smart energy choices such as locally generated renewable energy.
6. Value communities and neighborhoods - Enhance the unique characteristics of all communities by investing in healthy, safe and walkable neighborhoods - rural, urban or suburban.
The partnership first began... Read More: http://tinyurl.com/l3n9a8
Create abundance through group think and building ideas to allow for a high quality of life.
(Originally posted on Environmental Leader)
Using six guiding “livability principles,” federal efforts in transportation, environmental protection and housing investments will be coordinated under a new partnership.
The Partnership for Sustainable Communities is a joint project of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to a press release.
The partnership’s six livability principles are:
1. Provide more transportation choices - Develop safe, reliable and economical transportation choices to decrease household transportation costs, reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil, improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote public health.
2. Promote equitable, affordable housing - Expand location- and energy-efficient housing choices for people of all ages, incomes, races and ethnicities to increase mobility and lower the combined cost of housing and transportation.
3. Enhance economic competitiveness - Improve economic competitiveness through reliable and timely access to employment centers, educational opportunities, services and other basic needs by workers as well as expanded business access to markets.
4. Support existing communities - Target federal funding toward existing communities - through such strategies as transit-oriented, mixed-use development and land recycling - to increase community revitalization, improve the efficiency of public works investments, and safeguard rural landscapes.
5. Coordinate policies and leverage investment - Align federal policies and funding to remove barriers to collaboration, leverage funding and increase the accountability and effectiveness of all levels of government to plan for future growth, including making smart energy choices such as locally generated renewable energy.
6. Value communities and neighborhoods - Enhance the unique characteristics of all communities by investing in healthy, safe and walkable neighborhoods - rural, urban or suburban.
The partnership first began... Read More: http://tinyurl.com/l3n9a8
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