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Top 10 residential green building trends to watch in 2012
Here`s a list of some top trends that will help accelerate growth in the residential market, as compiled by the Earth Advantage Institute.
- Urban density. Filling in the spaces is the name of the game as homeowners and builders opt to create more living space through the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs), laneway homes (bordering the back lane behind the main house), and build on infill lots. All this because the younger crowd and the empty nesters are opting to settle in ...
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A vision of real corporate leadership on sustainability
The basics of sustainability excellence are fairly well known by now: reduce your footprint, create products and services that help customers do the same, drive employee engagement, think value chain, track data and enable transparency, and on and on. But real leaders will go further and address the scale of the sustainability challenges we face by fundamentally remaking their companies. Here`s what I envision in a few key areas:Science-Based Goals - Footprint reduction targets are important, but ... |
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- 3E moves to address increasingly complex EHS, chemical management, supply-chain issues globally
3E Company (Carlsbad, CA) is a provider of information technology (IT) products and services to help clients manage their environmental, health, and safety ...
- Four mistakes which SMEs commonly make about REACH compliance – and how to correct them
The EU REACH Regulation has been in force for several years, but still most companies are confused about how to comply with it; it doesn`t help that some ...
- Detroit - The city of reinvention
It`s January 2012. A new year lies ahead. It`s a time when many of us plan for rejuvenation with resolutions of fitness, healthy eating and lifestyle ...
- What companies can learn from the Auto Industry
Changing one’s ways or implementing new initiatives is difficult. It’s inconvenient. This seems especially true in the U.S. in recent years. ...
- Creating a green innovation ripple
Green innovation is a hot topic in the US. Ideologues for the status quo (many of them in Congress) believe it will cost industry money, and leave us ...
- When to Hold and When to Fold - Considerations When Contemplating a Job Change
An environmental professional recently called me for career advice on making a job change. He has a secure job working for a federal agency, but was bored ...
- Environmental tax reform in Europe: implications for income distribution
Key messages
- Although ETRs tend to improve incomes across society, they can have mild regressive impacts in that richer households gain more than ...
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