Green Team Building through Adopt-a-Highway Programs
If you've been looking for ways to build team spirit and help care for the environment, you'll want to consider adding an Adopt-a-Highway program to your list of options.What It IsThrough the Adopt-a-Highway program, community groups take responsibility for regularly cleaning a selected stretch of roadway.
Five single use products you can stop using today
The easiest way to stop plastic pollution is to continually remind yourself that single use products are not worth the environmental price. We have a list of five single use products that you can swap out with reusable products.
How You Can Help Reduce Single Use Plastic
When we think about recycling, we think about our recycling bins and how diligently we work to sort our trash. We take pride in thinking that we are helping our environment.
Cleaning Plastic Pollution From the Ocean
While governments and businesses wrestle with the problem of plastic pollution through recycling and other schemes, the issue of the plastic that has already made it to the ocean persists. According to the Interesting Engineering site, a nonprofit called the Ocean Cleanup is ready to deploy a device in the Pacific Ocean to start gathering up the stuff so that it can be collected and taken back to shore for processing.
3 Ways to Make Your Office More Eco-Friendly
Let's face it, the office environment was not created with the intention of conserving our natural resources. Luckily, small adjustments can make a large impact on the way our offices affect the environment.
Building Up Your Team to Go Green
New rules and culture can be challenging to implement in an office environment. Generating employee enthusiasm about green habits doesn't have to be! Employees can transition easily when they participate and engage in the change.
Cutting down on food waste with grape pomace
Food waste is not something we associate with winemaking. However, as ZME Science points out, roughly a quarter of the grape in the form of skins, seeds, and stalks is thrown out when the fruit of the vine is transformed into wine, 14 million tons of the stuff, as it turns out.
Does Your Office Celebrate Sustainably?
In former days, nothing said celebration quite like a good old-fashioned balloon drop. Whether you were hosting a concert, announcing the grand opening of a retail store, or marking a special cultural holiday, balloon drops and releases of helium balloons seemed the way to go.
Teaching Kids Early About Plastic Pollution
While we trust that parents and teachers are educating children about the environmental ills of plastic pollution, the time has come to consider using more than just our words. Perhaps more powerfully than anything we might say to them, our actions speak volumes to the next generation when it comes to plastic prevention for kids.
Using food waste to create electricity
Food waste, which places untold tons of vegetables and meat into landfills, represents a major problem in the developed world. Food that goes to waste does not alleviate hunger.
