2011 Blog Archive
2011
Best “Green” Trend of the Year!!
Reduction of Waste Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Approximately 267 people are born every minute; in turn our world grows larger every day. The bad news is, so does our waste! With that many people, our waste has risen significantly over the past 25 years. Good thing businesses and consumers have taken notice to this and have …
Earth Day 2011: Be One In a Billion
A Billion Acts of Green: That the theme that the Earth Day Network chose for International Mother Earth Day 2011. The goal of the campaign is to sign up a billion environmental acts before the global Earth Summit in Rio in 2012. People from all over the world are signing up and registering different green …
Happy Earth Day 2011!
Earth Day was first held on April 22, 1970 when it was founded by US Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in. Over 20 million people participated in the United States in the first Earth Day in 1970. Today, April 22 is known as International Mother Earth Day, with over 500 million people in 175 countries …
Headline News
Sept. 23 — A petition calling for the closing of all landfills and waste incinerators in the next five years is headed for the White House. If the petition gets 5,000 signatures by Oct. 22, the Obama administration will review it and respond. The petition is on We the People, a new feature on whitehouse.gov that allows …
Healthiest Employer
Check out what Missouri Rolla has done! Headline News Oct. 27 — Solid waste disposal spending at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla has dropped 30% due to a campus-wide recycling initiative. The school´s Green Campus Committee received about $22,000 the past few years from the Department of Natural Resources and the …
Healthiest Employer Award
Gateway Exhibit Services, A Company that Offers Trade Show Services Nationwide, A Finalist for 2011 Healthiest Employers Award EARTH CITY, MO – Gateway Exhibit Services, a company that provides customers with trade show services, recently found out that they are a finalist in this year’s search for the healthiest employer. The search is being held by …
Recycle Using Your Phone?
Nov. 14 — In conjunction with America Recycles Day on Nov. 15, a new app for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is hoping to encourage the recycling of virtual and real world plastics. Bin It!, created by Plastics Make it Possible, an initiative sponsored by plastic industries of the American Chemistry Council, has players toss …
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