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Here is a brief list of some of the interesting sustainability news articles from this week:
And you’ll find more headlines at CEILeadership.org!
Here is a brief list of some of the interesting sustainability news articles from this week:
And you’ll find more headlines at CEILeadership.org!
Whenever we can, we like to highlight a program, product or other “green tool” that will help CEIL Blog readers and their organizations become more sustainable. Today, we wanted to tell you about Sustainability Dashboard.
Sustainability Dashboard is a computer-based tracking and charting program that tracks, and therefore measures, waste streams, energy use and consumption-based activities for sustainability managers and other green-minded individuals within an organization. When you combine Sustainability Dashboard’s tracking capabilities with the ability to convert that data into dollars spent (or saved) and greenhouse gasses emitted (or not), a company begins to get a great picture of its overall sustainability – and the financial benefit that comes with being green.
Watch the video below for an introduction to Sustainability Dashboard.
This video made us want to run out and recycle plastic bottles. Stay with it until the 1:00 minute mark, then it gets good.
Google recently produced this video that shows how they choose and evaluate potential sites for purchase of carbon offsets. They begin with a more typical scenario – a landfill gas operation – and then take you to an innovative on-farm waste-to-energy system which they developed in collaboration with Duke University, Duke Energy and Loyd Ray Farms of North Carolina.
The video certainly makes the carbon offset process more tangible and adds faces and stories to a subject that often lacks a human side.
Here is a brief list of some of the interesting sustainability news articles from this week:
And you’ll find more headlines at CEILeadership.org!
Not too long ago, we posted a news story about the USDA issuing a $75 million loan guarantee to help construct a waste-to-energy bioprocessing facility in Vero Beach, FL. In the video below, we get a chance to take a look inside the existing part of the plant and find out more about the economic and environmental impact the facility will have on its community.
Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University relates a conversation in the video above. He was asked the following question, and gives his response:
Who cares weather or not the colleges and universities reduce their carbon footprints? You don’t have a big carbon footprint to begin with. You only have 2% – 3% of the carbon footprint of the country. I said “Yeah, that’s true, but we have 100% of the student footprint.”
The moral of the story? Sustainable universities create sustainable futures.
Growing Power is a national nonprofit dedicated to growing food, minds and its community. Led by the dynamic Will Allen – one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2010 – Growing Power is providing an innovative example for urban farming in America. Growing Power is on the web at growingpower.org. Thanks to the USDA for bringing this video to our attention.
Here is a brief list of some of the interesting sustainability news articles from this week:
And you’ll find more headlines at CEILeadership.org!
