Category Archives: Environment

Go Green at Your Next Trade Show

There is no better way for any business to network and to showcase new products than a trade show. Trade shows are still one of the most fundamental ways businesses create leads and generate sales. Even though the benefits of trade shows and exhibitions are felt by many businesses unfortunately they are also extraordinarily wasteful.


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Eco-Friendly Features of the World’s Greenest Regions

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Some of the greenest regions of the world just happen to be some of the most beautiful. Coincidence? Maybe not. It stands to reason that taking care of the natural attributes of a particular area make it a natural attraction for all kinds of living things.


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Facebook Greenlights Green Plans

Mega social networking site Facebook has long been urged by Greenpeace to “unfriend coal,” and to switch to greener energy.
The first indication that Facebook was moving into a more eco-friendly direction was in October, when the social networking giant announced that they would be building a new center in Sweden


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Fukushima Natives Learn About Renewable Energy

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In the wake of the nuclear reactor disaster that struck shortly after Japan’s recent tsunami, more and more Japanese have expressed an interest in energy sources that aren’t reliant upon nuclear energy.


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Natural Creativity

Until recently creativity was something for which we all strove, especially at work and we felt we had to be creative, innovative and new. We wanted to be creative and often we tried to be innovative in a vacuum divorced from the natural world around us.


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Motorola Flies With the Wind

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As going green becomes more and more of a priority for the average consumer, companies begin to respond with better products. The latest company to react? Motorola. They’ve signed on with several other companies (such as LEGO and WWF) in making a pledge with Belgian group Windmade


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When Renewable Energy Is Too Expensive

While renewable energy is very important, it is also important to consider the consumers’ financial capabilities. If it’s possible to reap the benefits of renewable energies without hitching up prices to unreasonable costs for consumers, then shouldn’t we explore those options instead of jumping on the green energy train without proper financial analysis?


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Then and Now: The 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill

Marked as the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, the BP spill started with the explosion of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. Eleven men were killed by the explosion and many others were injured.


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