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• Carbon labels not always a good guide to sustainability

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 508
  Carbon labelling could unfairly disadvantage economies in the developing world and mislead consumers, according to new research findings. Working on behalf of the UK Research Councils’ Rural Economy and Land Use Programme, researchers at the universities of Bangor and Surrey investigated the wider implications of ...
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• Sustainable Las Vegas

  
  Scrutiny Hooligans — Authority: 472
  I was recently on the floor of the Luxor walking in between craps and blackjack tables when I seemed to have gotten the most absurd idea in my head: Sustainable Las Vegas.  I thought about whether there might be an organization advocating for a more sustainable way of doing things in the Sin City.  But the [...]
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• Poet, seeking patronage

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 555
  Jeff Broin knows his way around a corn field. The 44-year-old CEO of Poet , which is the largest ethanol producer in the world, grew up in Minnesota on a family farm. He lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Poet’s 26 ethanol plants are scattered across the midwest. Jeff Broin Broin also knows his way around ...
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• Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Britain’s Industrial Town Becomes Country’s Greenest City

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 141
  People of Newcastle have proved it that economic prosperity and heavy industry should be of no hindrance to make one’s city green and sustainable. Newcastle-upon-Tyne came as a surprise winner this year as it claimed top spot as greenest city in sustainability audit of Britain. The very fact that in the past it had ...
  20 hours ago

• AFGC welcomes amendments to CPRS

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 513
  The recognition and support for food processing in the Federal Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) amendments has been welcomed by Australia’s largest manufacturing sector, the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) said today.The Government’s proposed $150 million allocation under the ...
  23 hours ago

• Green Community Models: the Ecovillage

  
  Sustainablog — Authority: 502
  If you ever found yourself forced to define the term “community,” you might find yourself reverting to something akin to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s attempt to define pornography: “I know it when I see it.” While different communities have different purposes, goals, and activities, they’ve all ...
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• Wild fermenting - making vinegar

  
  down---to---earth — Authority: 524
  You would have noticed some pineapple in a jar sitting next to the beetroot yesterday. That is the first stage of pineapple vinegar Im making from scratch. Its another great skill to have because it will mean you use the entire pineapple, not just the juicy, sweet inside. Pineapple vinegar is made from the bits you ...
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• Web Site Honors Sustainable Cooking

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  The Mother Nature Network identifies 40 young chefs practicing local food sourcing and other sustainable practices.
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• The Promising Potential of Bio-based Plastics (part 2)

  
  Anton Steeman — Authority: 115
  One of the main drivers to develop bio-based plastics is the goal to provide the market with biodegradable plastics, in order to solve the problem of rapidly increasing amounts of waste and limited landfill capacities. Although in some densely populated industrialized countries with limited landfill capacity, waste is ...
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• Transition to a world without oil: Rob Hopkins on TED.com

  
  TED Blog — Authority: 606
  Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out . He proposes a unique solution to this problem -- the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of fossil fuels. ...
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• In Illinois: Green Party Opposes Navistar Facility

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 483
  A DuPage County Green Party press release from November 24, 2009. The contact person is Patrick Kelly at patrick.kelly at dupagegreens dot orgGreens Oppose Proposed Navistar FacilityThe DuPage County Green Party is speaking out against the proposedNavistar heavy industrial diesel engine testing complex to be built ...
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• Charting Our Water Future: Economic Frameworks to Inform Decision-Making

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 541
  McKinsey & Company : Growing competition for scarce water resources is a growing business risk, a major economic threat, and a challenge for the sustainability of communities and the ecosystems upon which they rely. It is an issue that has serious implications for the stability of countries in which businesses ...
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• Myths of Sustainable Business

  
  Integration Training Journal - Mark Walsh Brighton, Sussex, UK — Authority: 128
  The Eight Biggest Myths about Sustainability in Business By Vijay Kanal from the excellent Greenbiz.com In our research, and in engagements with dozens of Fortune 1000 companies, we are sometimes surprised at the reluctance to pursue environmental sustainability initiatives, because of ...
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• The Snaefell Hybrid

  
  Eco-Friendly Tips — Authority: 520
  I would have never imagined combining a motorcycle with a car. To the extent of being a hybrid even made it more interesting.  I was really thrilled to even want to see it in person, it might be even better. The Hybrid Car can leave you breathless and it fully understood Mother Earth’s concept of green ...
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• A fish here, a fish there. Who cares?

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 590
  OO says: Im a law student researching Entergy v. Riverkeeper where the Supreme Court said EPA can use cost-benefit analysis when determining the best technology available standard for cooling water intake systems. J. Breyers concurring opinion posits that its irrational in a world of stressed resources to force a ...
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• Postal Service Releases First Sustainability Report

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 664
  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. And then there’s the agency’s business model, which many argue is antiquated and unsustainable. But, according to its recently-released (and ...
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• Climate Change: CO2 is Not the Only Gas Attack

  
  Sterling Performance — Authority: 134
  How is your company air-conditioning its buildings? It may be the equipment it’s using is unsustainable, even though it complies with today’s environmental regulations.Although CO2 is by far the most common greenhouse gas (gasses that are trapped in the earth’s atmosphere which retain more heat from the sun), ...
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• Perspectives of Hopenhagen: of travels and calories

  
  SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs — Authority: 153
  In preparation for COP15 in Copenhagen, and supporting UN-backed hopenhagen.org campaign, a couple of newsworthy items
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• Retrofitting The Suburbs Of Bardstown Road

  
  Broken Sidewalk — Authority: 432
  Bardstown Road at the Gene Snyder (via Lojic) Suburban Louisville is headed back to the drawing boards.  Metro Louisville is trying to figure out how to retrofit the suburban fringe of Jefferson County along the Gene Snyder Beltway to “create a more vibrant center where walking, bicycling and public ...
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• 62% of Firms Assign Environmental Team for Green Goals

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  Among companies that have “green” goals, about 62 percent have environmental teams comprised of employees accountable for the goals, according to research from Vault.About 34 percent of firms assign a corporate sustainability team lead to the function, while 30 percent have a corporate sustainability department ...
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