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Businesses are increasingly using environmental claims  such as 'being compostable' in order to differentiate themselves and their products from their competitors.  But are such claims substantiated and appropriately qualified. Most of the time they are not as it is quite...

If we want to make a significant difference to climate change and global warming, then we need to get serious about investing in nature. Planting trees can help us reach our 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting a rise in...

Ever made a meal that was too big or you prepared too much of? Sure; either save the leftovers or throw them in the trash. But often times when we simply throw food in the trash, we are unaware of...

  The Situation: Are people growing numb to the term “eco-friendly”? What does the term really mean in the eyes of those who truly take care of our earth in comparison with those who just assume they take care of...

Does recycling help the environment or are we just going around in circles?
One of the original goals of the recycling movement was to avert a supposed crisis as the nation’s landfills were running out of space and to reduce carbon emissions and the greenhouse gases as we reduce the need to manufacture new products, hence less mining, drilling and logging.  But because more and more materials types have been added to the recyclable list, the process has become more complex and expensive than expected. In addition, recycling, especially of  plastic waste  mitigates carbon impacts only to a limited extent.

External Benefits Positive Public Relations When a business uses energy efficient lighting, heating and cooling, reduces its water use, recycles office materials, organizes employee community cleanup activities, uses recycled materials and creates less waste. You then generate positive public relations...

Water for sale! Why are we paying for water that we can get free from the tap?  Sounds crazy? The single use water bottle – of all our other modern day consumerism, it  epitomizes our un-ecological consumption.  It ‘assaults’ not...

Reduce your use of plastics! Most of us find our weekly trash compose more of recyclable pink bags than the black garbage bags. We tend to put all kinds of ‘recyclable’ waste into these pink bags. Does this mean we...