Sustainability

One of the most important parts of fighting climate change and preserving the environment is green spaces. However, for these green spaces to be beneficial, they need to be part of our daily lives.

Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which opened in 2017, is the home of the National Football League's Falcons and Major League Soccer's Atlanta United. The stadium has been billed as the most sustainable sports venue in the world.

We're all familiar with Styrofoam packing peanuts and molded cushioning to help keep stuff safe in transit. While there's no argument that it gets the job done, the sheer amount of waste it generates is staggering.

Permeable parking is an environmentally-friendly solution that's been growing in popularity for years, now. Rather than being solid, though, the pavement has small, breathable openings in it that allow water to slide through it, moving through the gravel and back into the soil more naturally.

Sustainable housing is something more and more people are looking into as a way to minimize their impact on the environment. According to Intelligent Living, Mexican engineer Ramon Martin Espinosa Solis may have found a solution for creating a house.

With over forty percent of its undergraduate students residing on campus, the large urban setting of the University of Maryland not far from the nation's capital makes a perfect laboratory for putting sustainability theory into practice. The Big Ten university, known for its legendary college basketball record, formidable research reputation, and strong academics, is located in College Park, MD and boasts roughly 41,000 undergrad and graduate students, and 14,000 faculty and staff.

How can e-commerce measure its impact, and do carbon offset purchases reflect the real-world cost of operations? Lyft and Etsy, have recently unveiled ambitious initiatives to support their goals of becoming carbon neutral by 2020. E-commerce is taking over the retail market globally, and the gains are expected to continue.

Birthdays, holidays, special celebrations: parties can be a staple at the office. They promote workplace camaraderie and help keep morale up.