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Tag: Green Initiatives

  • SmartStop Self Storage completes first of many solar PV projects at South Carolina location

    SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. a self-managed and fully-integrated self-storage company with approximately $1.6 billion of self storage assets under management, completed the first solar PV project as part of a broader company-wide initiative to reduce its carbon footprint and become more energy efficient. The project at Mt. Pleasant wasRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Stay Cool & Be Green–Innovations in Air Conditioning Technology

    This is another in our series of guests posts…this one comes from Audrey Clark and will give you some insights into how to make air conditioning your home and or workplace more environmentally friendly. Please new we have an open door policy for blogs. If you are interested in posting on our site, email me…

  • Always Nice To See The Big Boys Working On Greening Their Businesses

    Here’s a little news story about a big company doing green things. Toshiba Canada is one of the more progressive outposts in the vast Toshiba empire when it comes to green initiatives. We encourage you to check out this link…who knows, maybe you’ll get some ideas that will help you green your workplace too. http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/4459820-markham-company-puts-focus-on-being-green/

  • 10 Reasons to Consider Aquaponics

    This is a guest post from blogger, bAmanda Kostina. Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture and hydroponics. The former concerns the raising of aquatic animals, while the later deals with growing plants or vegetables in water. By combining the two, aquaponics creates a mutually beneficial system where water and nutrients are recycled naturally. By feeding…

  • Attacking the Plastic Waste Epidemic Head On

    We were very pleased to discover this organization called the Plastic Bank.  It’s predicated on the idea that waste plastic, which is one of the world’s most daunting environmental challenges, possesses what they believe to be an “abundance of opportunity”. Their site, www.plasticbank.org, lays out the argument in very lucid terms and you come away…