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Golfing for the Environment
Golfing for the Environment
By Rachel Oates Over the weekend of February 5th TPC Scottsdale in Phoenix Arizona hosted the 7th annual Waste Management Phoenix Open. Ricky Fowler and Hideki Matsuyama helped make it another exciting tournament as Matsuyama beat Fowler in a 4-hole sudden death playoff. The attendance record for this event set a new record when 201,003 people came out to watch Saturday’s third round. All of…
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POW
By Kelsey Oliver I recently came across an article in the Sierra magazine published by the Sierra Club, a national organization dedicated to protecting and preserving natural environments. The article was about POW, a non-profit environmental association founded by Jeremy Jones in 2007. Jeremy has been a professional snowboarder for almost two decades, starring in numerous snowboarding films and…
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Reducing Carbon Emissions Begins With Private-Public Partnerships
Reducing Carbon Emissions Begins With Private-Public Partnerships
By Claire August Climate change is a problem that requires the cooperation of the private and public sector to tackle. Businesses have recently taken action on corporate responsibility with the recently popular development of sustainability departments and “green business” certifications and partnerships, such as B Corporations. But to create real change- improvements in environmental…
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You’ll find me in CVS scanning every single cosmetic’s bar code. Here’s why:
You’ll find me in CVS scanning every single cosmetic’s bar code. Here’s why:
By Emily Green Recently, I’ve become addicted to the app Think Dirty. This app allows me to scan barcodes on any beauty product and learn exactly what effect each ingredient will have on my body. After learning that my shampoo, conditioner, face cream, and other products that I had consciously bought at a health food store were given the highest rating of toxicity on the app’s scale, I decided to…
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Hemp: Sustainability Secret
By Claire August Hemp is an extremely versatile and sustainable crop. Its uses can range from making clothing to food to paper to building supplies, plastics, and fuel. And it’s extremely sustainable, producing three times more hemp than cotton per acre of land, without the need of pesticides. Pesticides can be toxic to the crop being grown, or have residual effects on what’s being grown on…
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Living in a Conscious Environment
Living in a Conscious Environment
By Claire August You can tell a lot about a person by his or her room space and how it’s decorated. Much like you are what you eat, your space is a reflection on you and can dictate your taste, style, and even personality to visitors. Living environmentally consciously is a holistic movement, and includes building the space around you in a conscious way. On my journey from conventional to…
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The Green Party makes significant progress in New York
The Green Party makes significant progress in New York
The gubernatorial race in New York State was widely projected to be a two horse race, Incumbent Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo vs. Republican Challenger Rob Astorino. New York has a widely derided electoral law that allows minor parties to cross nominate candidates, which is why, for example, Cuomo was both the candidate for the Democratic party and the Working families party. Due to this, 3rd…
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An Algae Farm Growing on Top of a Highway
An Algae Farm Growing on Top of a Highway
What if you could find a way to take all the Co2 emitted by cars and put it to use? A European design firm, The Cloud Collective, is trying to do exactly that by building an algae farm over an overpass in Geneva, Switzerland. The farm is small, serving as a proof of concept, a physical, working example of an idea, put into practical use.
The concept is simple: collect Co2 from cars and use it…
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Where does GW send recycled material? Find out here Ever wonder where the material you put in your recycling bin at GW physically goes?? Well, GW’s recycling goes to the…
Where does GW send recycled material? Find out here Ever wonder where the material you put in your recycling bin at GW physically goes?? Well, GW’s recycling goes to the…
PREPARE YOUR DORMS FOR WINTER buy canned goods
In DuPont!!! Or foggy bottom on Wednesdays!!
SHOUT OUT TO ALL THOSE STARBUCKS FANATICS!! (They now have Xmas themed reusable cups!!)
The City of Vancouver is partnering with a global recycling company in the hopes of getting smokers to butt out in one of their receptacles, instead of on the ground.
I’ve started seeing these in the downtown area of Vancouver. I’m intrigued by the idea of this project because its advantages are two-fold - it should help clean up city streets and pavements (which I think is a pretty big problem - particularly in many major European cities) whilst reprocessing the waste into useful materials:
“We take all of the waste, the leftover plastic, aluminum from the packs, the cigarette butts, and any of the organic leftover material: paper, unused tobacco and ash. All of that material gets shredded and the organic material gets separated out. The paper, ash and tobacco is then composted, and there are strict regulations about composting tobacco products.
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The left over butts are gamma radiated, which is the same process that is used on fish once it’s pulled out of the sea, to kill any bio contaminants. Once they have been gamma radiated, they can be turned into plastic pellets, which we then partner with industrial manufacturers to make industrial-only products such as plastic lumber, shipping pallets, and other B2B applications – no consumer products will be made from the material.”
The city of Vancouver will consider adding up to 1,000 so-called ‘butt bins’ in the downtown area if the pilot project - which is currently comprised of 110 bins - is successful. I’ll be interested in seeing whether people actually start making use of the bins and whether the city manages to collect enough waste to make the program worthwhile, but at first glance it’s an idea that I think should be implemented in many more towns and cities across the globe.
CHECK THIS OUT!! It's a major step up from "smoke free GW"!
For the visual learners: http://visual.ly/recycling-101
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