Making a Case for Solid Waste and Recycling Practices Laws and regulations are open to interpretation, and everyone makes mistakes. These two ideas expose many organizations and communities to financial and punitive risk for solid waste disposal and recycling practices of the past or the present: Are your materials being recycled as you believe? Was […]
LEED-Certified Green Building Managing the complexities of green building design, construction and operations to meet U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification process. Sustainable Business Practices Adopting the Triple Bottom Line framework to balance social, environmental, and financial impacts on business, people, and the planet. Recycling & Solid Waste Management Balancing the demands and expense of […]
On July 5, the New York Times Op Ed Page had a very well written piece by Yoram Bauman and Shi-Ling Hsu in which they outlined the benefits of the new British Columbia Carbon Tax (BCCT). A carbon tax is just that. A tax on the carbon contained in fossil fuels. As they noted, the […]
Subsidies are a public policy question. That is a reasonable position to take. It seems odd that those who complain the most about the provision of subsidies to the new, renewable energy industries and for energy conservation programs are the current recipients of some of the richest, most far reaching subsidies ever given in the […]
NJ Spotlight recently reported that the state is considering cutting its funding for new energy efficiency and renewable energy projects almost in half. NJ Spotlight further reported that “In a draft proposal circulated by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities last week, the budget for the clean energy program would allocate $339 million in […]