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Blogs: Sustainability

Water: What Are We Doing About It?

Summer's here and our faucets are running full bore. We're watering lawns and washing cars, filling pools and tall glasses, too. But the supplies of the water we're relying on to keep our whistles wet are shrinking each year. And that makes every drop worth saving. We tend to take...

Teaching a Generation to Fish

There's a saying you've probably heard before, it goes something like, "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime." Well, there's a group called Generation Enterprise and they're teaching the world's urban youth...

Thank You for Helping Us Save 500,000 Trees

While you always know when you've helped the environment, it can be hard to know just how much. But there's a ticker on our home page that spells it out in black and white. And sometime today, it's passing a real milestone: The 500,000th tree saved from the axe. Believe it. Since we...

Running in Circles

Sports metaphors are hard to avoid. We're forever racing to the finish or otherwise racing against the clock to some goal.   However, when considering sustainable businesses, racing to the finish may not be the best approach. Consider, for example, the logging industry in New England. In...

Barnes Students Visit Seventh Generation for a Lesson in Sustainability

What happens when sixty 4th and 5th graders descend on our offices?  A whole lot of fun, combined with a whole lot of learning!  Students from Mrs. Gordon's, Mrs. Smith's and Mr. Fitzsimmons' classes at the Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes School in Burlington visited...