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In the News

How the world's trash problem presents profit opportunity
By Jennifer Inez Ward

With the volume of global solid waste projected to double by 2025, waste management companies are sitting pretty, even as other businesses seek to slash their trash.

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Why Europe's hostility towards GMOs may be softening
By Heather Clancy

With the call in the EU for more scientific evidence on health effects and U.S. critics taking labeling to the ballot, the GMO debate has hit a turning point. How should biotech companies proceed?<...Read More

UL Environment: Your Partner in Sustainability


UL Environment helps the world make, market, find, and trust healthier, more sustainable, environmentally-preferable products and services. We help companies achieve their sustainability goals-and help purchasers, specifiers, retailers, governments, and consumers find greener products they can trust. Visit www.ul.com/environment for details.


Efficient Advice

10 tips to improve your buildings' operational efficiency
By Kimberly Hosken

With commercial buildings accounting for up to 75 percent of the energy used and 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in urban areas, it's critical that they operate more efficiently.

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4 rules for making green products irresistible
By Larry Washington

Successfully marketing sustainable products means navigating roadblocks that just don’t exist in conventional product marketing....Read More

New Corporate Sustainability Training from UVM 100% Online
The University of Vermont online introduces the new Advanced Certificate in Sustainable Innovation. Master critical in-demand sustainability skills and become an agent of change in your organization by maximizing your Triple Bottom Line. Implement the training and best-practices your organization needs to boost ROI and drive innovation. Lead the Change to Green with UVM!




Clearing Sustainability Hurdles

London Olympics aims for a gold medal in waste recovery
By Jonathan Bardelline

With hundreds of thousands of spectators eating and drinking at the London Olympics every day, the organizers have a plan to keep all that waste out of landfills....Read More



Why London’s green Olympics might be outpaced in 2016
By Dan Probst

A look at how host cities compete for the gold in green -- and how Rio is gunning to overtake London for the sustainability gold....Read More



Will London’s post-Games sustainability plans bear fruit?
By Bruce Kennedy

We won't know for some time whether the 2012 Summer Games in London lived up to its claim of being the most sustainable in history. But organizers say they helped transform a polluted and economically hard-hit area of the British capital.

 


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