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Blogs: sustainability

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...

99% Shocking

What's with all the hate for the Chevy Volt, the country's first mainstream plug-in passenger car? It cleans the air, prevents climate meltdowns, creates American jobs, reduces oil dependency, and maybe even does the dishes while it brings you a nice hot toddy. But listen to the public...

Watching Our Wastelines

For years, it's been garbage gospel that the average American creates 4.4 pounds of trash a day. Real-world data compiled from actual landfills and waste haulers reveals much bigger figures. According to the fascinating new book Garbology, Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, researchers have...

Connecting the Dots

Our climate isn't the only thing that's changing. A new survey from Yale and George Mason Universities says Americans' belief in global warming is heating up, too. Better yet, we're increasingly willing to go where no scientist has gone before and draw a link between climate change...