Swedes Can Now Sell Used Furniture on IKEA’s Web Site

Sep 05, 2010 No Comments by Leon Kaye

IKEA has received a fair share of criticism over the years, but there is evidence that the furniture giant undertaking improvements on the sustainability front. The company has tinkered with renewable energy, is phasing out flame retardants in its furniture, and in Sweden it is making a counterintuitive business move: customers in its home country can now sell the store’s used furniture on IKEA’s Swedish site.

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Composting Gets Corporatized – A Good Thing

Sep 02, 2010 No Comments by Leon Kaye

Garick processes and distributes garden soils and other products across North America. Its success attracted the attention of Waste Management (WM), which purchased a majority stake in Garick this week.

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Honolulu to Building Contractors: Recycle 60% of Used Materials

Aug 29, 2010 No Comments by Leon Kaye

Honolulu has a huge trash problem, so City Councilman Donovan Dela Cruz introduced a bill that would require building permit applicants to submit plans that would prove reuse or recycling of 60% of any demolished and dismantled materials.

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Hollywood Productions Go Green

Aug 17, 2010 No Comments

Move over Joan Crawford and the old decadent Hollywood days! The Green Production Guide offers its users a searchable database of vendors with information about their green products, services, their production experience, and locations they serve.

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Reconciling Consumerism and Sustainability

May 31, 2010 No Comments

To those Americans who dismiss Europe as a backward, leftist, and socialist land, I say, back off—the business leaders I met and to whom I listened at the GRI Conference would run circles around my business school professors and most managers across the pond! To those Europeans who slam America as a consumer-frenzied, overindulged society, I say, not so fast: based on the crowds I saw in the shopping areas and the lines I saw in the stores, I think both sides of the Atlantic know how to spend a buck (or Euro).

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Earth Day Hangover: All That E-Waste

Apr 26, 2010 No Comments

Far too many people pitch their computers, cell phones, and other electronic equipment at drop off points, thinking they are doing a great deed. Unfortunately, many of the people behind these drives are charlatans.

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Parkman Triangle Hits Pay Dirt!

Mar 05, 2010 No Comments

Well, actually it was free dirt.  It’s been an eye-opening experience working on the Parkman Triangle Project.  I’ve spent many hours this month calling contractors, from trucking companies to landscapers to plumbers to dirt companies.  What money we have really needs to go to plumbing, so to save about $2500, we decided to see what [...]

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Get Your Company Kuualafied

Dec 03, 2009 No Comments

Many of us are interested in purchasing eco-friendly office supplies, but have no idea where to start.  We hear so many messages about post-consumer waste content, chemicals in our paper, BPA leeching everywhere, and energy saving technologies.  Then you hear your vendors’ marketing messages, which can cause even more confusion.  After all, most companies will [...]

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