Tag Archives: green
Funding Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency projects are often sidelined in favor of investments in manufacturing equipment or other capital investments that will allow a company to expand. This is not only frustrating for the energy manager but also detrimental to long-term competitiveness and shareholder value. It is vital to separate energy efficiency projects from capital...
I Am Not a Perfect Greenist
This post isn’t about tips or advice for how you can become more green yourself. This is public confession of areas where I fall short of my own ideals. Maybe by admitting my problems I can find the motivation to improve my performance.
I use too many plastic utensils. This is one flaw that is actually more of a character flaw than a failing...
Eating Raw Food – Two Basic Approaches
There are two basic approaches to eating raw food. Learn which works and which doesn’t!
High Fat Raw: Also known as gourmet raw or Hollywood raw, this is what’s promoted in some form by a huge number of raw food authors, including David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, Matt Monarch, Daniel Vitalis, Carol Alt, and more. It can supply as much as 80%...
Green & Competitive Advantage – The Learning Curve
Companies are constantly looking for a way to obtain competitive advantage in the marketplace. In fact, the more points of advantage, obviously, the merrier. Options may include lowest price point, market-changing widget, halo branding, introduction of a never-before-seen technology or idea and even favorable legislation, tax breaks, entry into a new...
10 Things to Do with Your Turkey
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Looking for exciting ways to use up all you turkey bits after your festive feast? If dancing around with a turkey on your head isn’t your thing read on for some more ideas.
1. First and foremost, make yourself a tasty turkey sandwich to get some sustenance for everything else you intend to do!
2. OR if you’d like to use...
How Does It Work? Energy-efficient Lightbulbs
Compact Fluorescent Lights, otherwise known as CFLs, have come a long way since they entered the lightbulb market a few years ago. Along with their light-emitting diode cohort (aka LEDs), they’ve become standard fare at home furnishing stores and can now be dimmed, diffused and clustered for maximum impact.
Godo Stoyke, author of The Carbon Buster’s...
Brad Pitt Auctions Private Green Home Tour
For anyone with deep pockets who has ever wanted to spend a little time with Hollywood star Brad Pitt – this is one of the best opportunities you’ll get!
The 47-year-old has generously offered up for auction a meet and greet AND private tour of one of his Make It Right green homes in New Orleans. You and a friend will not only spend some time...
Paul McCartney Supports UK Ban on Wild Animal Circuses
Paul McCartney, long-time vegetarian and friend of organizations like PETA, can often be heard speaking up for animals. Recently, he released a vegetarian cookbook and helped out with tiger conservation.
Now, Sir Paul is speaking out in support of a ban on wild animal circuses in the UK. According to Look To The Stars, McCartney is joining Animal...
15 unusual uses for your hair dryer
Handheld hair dryers were introduced for the domestic market in 1920, and since then countless hairdos have relied on that combination of heat and air to achieve their coiffed perfection.
But the humble blow dryer has plenty of other services to offer around the house — here are a handful of them:
If you need to quickly set the icing on...
Hilton’s New Partnership to Give Used Soap a Second Life
A little known fact: Roughly 2.6 million partially used bars of soap are thrown out at North American hotels each day and often end up in landfills.
An Atlanta nonprofit that has been trying to give used soap a second life got a big boost today through a new partnership with Hilton Worldwide. The hotel giant will collect and donate used soap bars to...
