WASTE NOT, WANT NOT. At some point during a long day of speeches, a passing phrase will usually catch my ear. This week it was at a sustainability gathering for a big waste management company, where about halfway through the morning someone asked, “Why do we call it waste?” This is a pretty cool question, […]
67.4 quadrillion BTU’s. This is the total amount of energy waste in the US – a whopping 62% of all that’s produced each year. Before you jump in to comment, a note that this is really neat data – newly compiled at energy literacy.com by MacArthur genius award-winner Saul Griffith and his team at Otherlab. Huge […]
Double. Half. Zero. 100. In Nike’s latest sustainable business report, CEO Mark Parker puts forth a bold charge: can we double our business while halving our environmental impact? Think about that. Double and half. Where could you double a positive, and half a negative? The company has also announced some specific goals: zero waste […]