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,...
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
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...
Editor’s Note: This article, originally published on November 15, 2011, was updated today with a response from Kimberly-Clark Professional. It’s a question that bedevils facility managers. What’s the most environmentally conscious and cost effective way for people to dry their hands in company and public restrooms? Paper towels made from recycled content? Electric hand dryers?...
Hilton Worldwide and its ten associated hotel brands released the results of its sustainability measurement system, LightStay. Since the implementation of the program, Hilton Worldwide has saved over $74 million in utility costs resulting in a 6.6 percent reduction in energy use, a 7.8 percent reduction in carbon output, a 19 percent reduction in waste...
Unlimited access to tiny individually-wrapped soaps is one of the many perks of a hotel stay. But what happens to soaps that aren’t used (or pilfered) during your visit? The answer may surprise you. More than two million partially used bars of soap are discarded at North American hotels each day, according to the Global Soap...
Weather-based irrigation controllers can help save 110 billion gallons of water and $410 million per year on utility bills WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) WaterSense program announced today that irrigation controllers will soon be the first outdoor product eligible to earn the WaterSense label. The most efficient irrigation controllers, which operate...
EPA Recycling Water Science