The Business Environmental Program provides free and confidential environmental management assistance to business and government operations in Nevada. The Program specializes in cost effective strategies to reduce hazardous materials and waste generation, conserve water and energy, minimize air emissions, and maintain compliance with environmental requirements. The program provides training, on-site consultation, assistance over the phone and through its website and publications.
Janet Brown, Contributing Editor, Health Care Design Magazine If you close your eyes and think of an interior where you felt relaxed and at peace, what comes to mind? Jean Hansen, FIIDA, CID, AAHID, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C, sustainable interiors manager, senior professional associate, HDR Architecture, Inc.; Michelle Halle Stern, AIA, PE, MSPH, LEED Fellow, director,...
As reported on Environmental Leader Data from millions of businesses, institutions and manufacturers show that sustainability issues fall into four main categories:rising energy costs, growing disposal costs, limited water supply and health concerns over the quality of indoor air. Energy is often the largest line item in an operations facility management bill. So, monitoring and reducing excess energy...
Reprint from Environmental Leader: PCC Natural Markets, the nation’s largest member-owned grocery retailer, has selected its Issaquah, Wash., store for its first on-site food scrap “harvester.” PCC is undertaking the pilot project in partnership with local clean technology firm WISErg Corporation, which developed the harvester. The overall system includes a sealed harvester that grinds food...
Justin Ward, VP, Business Practices – Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, Conservation International and Mari Snyder, VP, Social Responsibility, Marriott International, discuss the importance of sustainability in the hospitality industry. Watch the video at Environmental Leader
by John McDermott, as posted in Environmental Leader Data from millions of businesses, institutions and manufacturers show that sustainability issues fall into four main categories: rising energy costs, growing disposal costs, limited water supplyand health concerns over the quality of indoor air. Energy is often the largest line item in an operations facility management bill. So, monitoring and...
ARAMARK Higher Education Celebrates Earth Day Every Day PHILADELPHIA, April 19, 2012 /PR Newswire/ — While Earth Day is celebrated once a year, at campuses throughout North America served by ARAMARK, Every Day is Earth Day, thanks to ongoing sustainable practices focused on reducing waste, conserving resources, purchasing responsibly and operating environmentally friendly spaces. One initiative, trayless dining (removing trays from...
U.S. commercial building owners could save an average of 38 percent on their heating and cooling bills if they installed a handful of energy efficiency controls that make their heating, ventilation and air conditioning, also known as HVAC, systems more energy efficient, according to a recent report from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National...
Repost from http://sustainableindustries.com/articles/2011/11/trash-raw-materials Technology is not a destiny. We are the smartest beings on the planet and if we do not like what we can see of the future, there is still time to change it. Hazardous waste is the inevitable byproduct of industrial development. These wastes can be unhealthy both for people and the environmental....
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