TIME -How to Win the War on Global Warming
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Americans don’t like to lose wars—which makes sense, since we have so little practice with it. Of course, a lot depends on how you define just what a war is. There are shooting wars—the kind that test our mettle and our patriotism and our resourcefulness and our courage—and those are the kind at which we […]
Progressive Grocer - Seeing Green
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Being green is definitely not easy -but that’s not stopping the manufacturing community from seizing upon environmental sustainability as a major strategic initiative. The challenge is that “green” comes in many shades. In other words, there are a vast number of ways that companies can get involved?and at least for now, there’s no uniform gauge […]
Saving Energy The Wal-Mart Way
Saturday, December 1st, 2007World’s largest retailer pushes new technology, innovation to help control energy usage, reduce costs
Everyone knows that Wal-Mart is the 900-pound gorilla in the retail world, with nearly 7,000 stores.With that, however, comes an energy bill that is one of the country’s largest.
Among Wal-Marts many efforts is a major initiative to control energy costs,while at the […]
(Mis)Understanding Green Products
Monday, November 5th, 2007A dizzying array of green product certification protocols are overwhelming the building industry Stan Rhodes, the president and C.E.O. of Scientific Certification Systems, or SCS, certifies building products. He’s been doing it since 1984. You bring him carpet you think is sustainable and he’ll certify it against the new NSF 140 Sustainable Carpet Assessment Standard. […]
MAKING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROFITABLE
Thursday, February 1st, 2007A Green Age is dawning in the world of retail, in both the environmental and economic senses of the word. Sustainability, asserting itself in construction and basic business practice, is becoming more than just a feel-good initiative in the shopping center industry. It has begun to yield concrete, bankable results, particularly against the bottom-line impact […]