Portland Seafood Company Profits from Recycling

Pacific Seafood, a Portland based business, was throwing away 4,000 pounds of polystyrene packaging (a.k.a. styrofoam) per week until they purchased an in-house crushing machine. Now they’re able to squish waste styrofoam packaging into dense two-foot blocks, which they sell to NEPCO. NEPCO grinds up the blocks and turns the material into “molding, picture frames [...]

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Going Green – Towns, Businesses, and People

A new PACE for Going Green Have you heard of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Bonds? Discussed at the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, PACE bonds give people the power to affordably ‘green’ their property. “PACE Bonds are small municipal loans that allow property owners to increase their home or building’s energy efficiency [...]

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Free Bikes for Employees Equals Engagement, Marketing, and Meaning

“What if there was something you could do at your workplace to improve employee productivity and overall disposition, boost customer satisfaction and reduce your carbon footprint? Exponentially increase your advertising outlets, improve your public relations and reduce your health premiums? At the same time alleviate traffic and parking challenges near your office, restaurant or retail [...]

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Why Climate Change Will Matter to Every Company

A great article originally published at GreenBiz.com, and written by Marshall Chase and Ryan Schuchard BSR has recently fielded inquiries from a range of member companies asking how climate change is relevant to their business. The timing of these questions is obvious: With prospective climate change legislation and policy discussions in the United States and [...]

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Climate Action: Strategic Business Advantage

I’ve read two interesting articles on business’ preparedness for monetizing carbon, and the resulting business advantages in reducing carbon emissions. A BSR article made a good point – managing your business’ carbon footprint is “no great feat.” “It’s not mechanically hard to manage greenhouse gases (GHG), the key ingredient to climate change. There’s a saying [...]

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Don’t Bother Trading Four Wheels for Two? Forget Shorter Showers?

An interesting article floated into by inbox a few days ago. Things move a lot slower in the heat of the tropics, so it has taken me a few days to process. One of the article’s arguments was that personal behavior change to reduce resource use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is both futile and [...]

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Small Steps to Sustainability

These days it seems things are getting pretty complicated. The climate is changing in all senses; economically; environmentally; socially; and all other forms you can imagine. Constantly our media berates us with the the problems we have created, keeping us reminded that reefs are dying, our ice caps are melting, and that we are potentially [...]

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Climate Change – No Fear Here

I’ve been planning to write on the topic of climate change, impacts, solutions, adaptation, and mitigation for some time now. Somehow I always find a reason to procrastinate one more day. As the weeks and months passed from the day I created this blog and had not yet written a word, I realized the reason [...]

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