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Take Action: Ontario’s Proposed Mega-Quarry Could Contaminate Drinking Water for A Million People

7:50 pm in canada, concrete, drinking water, environmental footprint, ontario, Take Action by TreeHugger

melancthon-quarry.jpgImage: Rabble.ca. Proposed mega-quarry deeper than Niagara Falls As Lloyd detailed in an earlier post on the enormous ecological footprint of concrete, a US-owned hedge fund is proposing a mega-quarry in Melancthon, about an hour and a half away from Toronto. It's an area best known for its excellent agricultural land and favourable micro-climate, but if the project goes ahead, thousands of acres will ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ask Pablo: Annual Report Mailed To 50k Employees? What Can My Company Do Better?

7:13 am in Business & Politics, environmental footprint, recyled, waste by TreeHugger

Stacked Reports Paper Image Image credit: amishrobot, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Help! My company has 50,000 people in 300 offices around the world and sends out its annual report to each and every one of them! What is the environmental impact of this? On the one hand it is great that your company is engaging with every single employee by sharing its annual report with them, but you can't help but cringe at the environmental footprint of producing and shipping 50,000 annual reports. First, let's...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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First Packaging-Free, Zero-Waste Grocery Store In US Coming To Austin, Texas

11:51 am in Business & Politics, coffee, conspicuous consumption, environmental footprint, Food & Health, shopping, texas, whole foods, zero waste by TreeHugger

bulk food store photo Image: bcmom via flickr It's gotten harder and harder over the years to avoid excess packaging when shopping for everyday items, but plans are in the works for a store in Austin (also the home of Whole Foods) that will specialize in local and organic ingredients, but more importantly, will eliminate all packaging from the store. If it succeeds and the bulk trend catches on, the environmental footprint—petroleum Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ask Pablo: What’s The Impact Of Imported Tropical Fruit?

1:15 pm in agriculture, bananas, buying local, environmental footprint, farming, food, Food & Health, fruits & vegetables by TreeHugger

Dole Food Company Fruit Reefer Container Ship Image credit: Pablo Päster Dear Pablo: What is the environmental impact of importing tropical fruit? Should I eat only what is grown in the US? In our globalized world, products travel halfway around the world all the time. Water is shipped from Fiji and Italy, wine comes from Australia a...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Major Brands Say Goodbye to Excess Packaging

12:05 pm in Business & Politics, environmental footprint, green packaging, waste by TreeHugger

clamshell packaging photo Image: Tara Hunt via flickr Good news, according to the New York Times: excess packaging, plastic in particular, is on the decline. Apparently more because of high oil prices than any environmental concern, but we'll take it. The Times has examples of a few major stores making significant changes:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10 Lessons for Planning an Environmental-Friendly Music Festival

9:46 am in Business & Politics, concerts, Culture & Celebrity, environmental footprint, music by TreeHugger

emu environmental music festival logo mountains photo Photo credit: Eco Music Festival Big music festivals, such as Bonnaroo, Coachella and Outside Lands have all taken steps to make their events more eco-friendly, but staging such an event is a huge challenge and keeping the ecological footpri...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why Peer Pressure is a Mixed Blessing in Going Green

8:47 am in Business & Politics, carbon footprint, communities, environmental footprint, ethical by TreeHugger

solar neighbors photo My panels are bigger than your panels... Image credit: CoCreatr, used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote about residents who turned their entire street into an energy graph, I was interested to note that the project deliberately avoided giving out household-specific energy information. The idea was to encourage comparisons to an average, but to avoid direct competition and/or naming and shaming hou...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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