Employee engagement plays an outsized role in increasing the effectiveness of any company’s sustainability and efficiency efforts. You can only mandate so much from the top before you realize that having the larger team involved is critical to...
How Energy Star Built A Market For Energy Efficient Buildings
When it comes to promoting the use of energy efficient products and systems, few programs can claim the success that the Energy Star labeling system has had. Since its introduction in 1992, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star...
Podcast - Energy Star and Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings
Take a listen to this fascinating interview with Bob Sauchelli, one of the originators of Energy Star Buildings, as we discuss the history of Energy Star for commercial buildings and how it helped establish a market for energy and resource...
Podcast: Financing and Executing on Deep energy Retrofits in Commercial Buildings
With energy efficiency project delivering returns-on-investment in just a few years, you would think that every building owner would scrambling to find contractors. But that is not always the case. In this informative podcast with Charlie Lord...
How to Eliminate Styrofoam Cups in Your Enterprise
I don’t know about you, but styrofoam cups make me a little crazy. Everytime I use one I think, “Wow, that’s going to sit in a landfill for a looooong time.” So when I started working with Cynthia Curtis, who was the Chief Sustainability...
America's e-Waste Problem. #Infographic
E-Waste is an enormous and growing issue in America and around the globe. Don't believe me? Just open the junk drawers in your house and look to see how many old phones, iPods and Nintendo DS'es are still sitting in there. And...
Podcast: Energy Efficiency in Hotels with Boston Green Tourism
Efficiency in hotels is more than just agreeing to use your towel more than once, as you will find out in this terrific podcast interview with Dan Ruben of Boston Green Tourism. We dig into the types of projects that deliver consistent ROI,...
