Posts tagged with "sustainability"
The Emerging Threat of E-Waste
Technology and sustainability generally mesh together well. Smartphones and tablets have reduced the need for paper and ride-sharing carpool apps can help reduce pollution-friendly traffic by 75%, according to an MIT study. However, there’s been a hidden sustainability issue that this golden age of technology has brought: the...
Tesla Activates World’s Largest Battery In South Australia
Elon Musk recently took a page out of the pizza delivery playbook, claiming that he would build the world’s biggest lithium ion battery in 100 days or less or provide it for free. And, in case you, for some reason, still doubt Musk’s ability to get things done, I’ll assure you that he delivered the battery well under the 100-day...
Adrian Grenier’s Last Straw
Adrian Grenier has had it with drinking straws. Not because the little paper wrapper is hard to open, or because if they bend and split they become useless, but because they are a perfect example of an unnecessary single-use plastic. “We all encounter plastic straws daily,” Adrian Grenier tells us. “And we use plastic straws...The Corporate Guide to Loving Green (the other kind)
Corporate sustainability efforts are a bright spot in the quest to reduce carbon emissions. Yet these bright spots – equivalent, perhaps, to an old-fashioned 60-watt light bulb – could be brighter and more effective (LEDs) if more organizations were on track to integrate green thinking into corporate culture.Instead,...Is Silicon Valley Guilty of Greenwashing?
A modern commercial begins with a lush field, pristine mountains, and a beautiful waterfall, as soothing music plays in the background. However, after all that natural scenery, something a bit less, shall we say, organic appears: a BMW roaring down a highway. This type of nature-focused branding is nothing new. Companies such as...Why Life Cycle Assessments are the Cheat Code for Green Businesses
Even with the prevalence of email, text messages, and websites, our nation is far from paperless. According to Boston College, each American uses about 680 pounds of paper per year, and all that paper takes a lot of trees, water and chemicals to produce.Traditional paper is resource-intensive, that’s why sustainability-minded paper...