Tag: Sustainable Business
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Why Energy Efficiency Deserves a Key Role in EPA Carbon Limits
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has embarked on a vital effort—accompanied by extensive outreach to states, power companies, environmental organizations and other stakeholders, including you—to establish the nation’s first limits on carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The EPA was directed to take this critical step for public health and the environment in the president’s Climate…
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How a 30-Second Video Could Land You a 5 Gyres Expedition Seat
The 5 Gyres Institute is searching for some help with a June expedition to Iceland, and a 30-to-45-second video could land you a spot on its Sea Dragon sailing vessel. Three years ago, the nonprofit organization found evidence of plastic in all five oceanic current systems as part of the world’s first global survey of plastic marine pollution. Now, the…
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World Water Day: How Levi Strauss Saved 770 Million Liters in Two Years
In honor of today, 2014 World Water Day, one company has decided to show just how much water it has saved in a relatively short period of time. Levi Strauss & Co. launched a new line of jeans in 2011 specifically to save water during its process. By reducing about 96 percent of the water used…
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5 Must-See Documentaries From the 2014 Environmental Film Festival
The 22nd annual Environmental Film Festival in Washington D.C. set records before it even showed one moment of footage. The 13-day event features a record 200 films from 38 countries. Several of them will be world and U.S. premieres, while others have already experienced success at other festivals around the world. The topics are sure…
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Celebrating the Burgeoning Green Roof Scene in DC
The Executive Director of DC Greenworks, Peter Ensign, recently teamed up with filmmaker Sandy Cannon-Brown to produce a short film on the burgeoning green roof scene in Washington, DC, and it will be screened at the venerable Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capitol on March 21. I used the occasion to ask him a few questions. Q. What will people…