Category: Materials Management

Anything about reduce, reuse or recycle! Personal choices, purchasing or improving state operations.

Cast Iron perfection

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Ode to cast iron pans – the greenest, smartest, most simple and effective cooking tools, alongside the grater and the wooden spoon. Good for cooking: […]

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Materials Management, Personal Reflections, Products

Promoting without polluting.

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I was just part of a very nice little in-agency GO GREEN event to help staff understand their options regarding recycling, reuse, green building, greener […]

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Critical commentary, Green Building Tools, Materials Management, Products, USGBC, LEED and Greenbuild conference

Knitting and GHG reductions

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There is an author of novels whose work I admire and re-read often.  She’s sort of a modern-day Louisa May Alcott in that she writes […]

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community, Critical commentary, Energy, Materials Management, Products, Sustainability in Depth

Glass Straws

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This was a GREAT find last year for Christmas.  We bought our son some glass straws.  Kickin’ the plastic straw habit, all the way. These […]

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Critical commentary, Materials Management, Products

IKEA – is the blue and yellow…greener?

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We visited IKEA for my birthday.  We are very engaged homeowners, always trying to make spaces more usable and more funky and more “us”.  We’ve […]

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Critical commentary, Materials Management, Personal Reflections, Products

Bio-synergistic Design; a name for an opportunity.

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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”  An oft-quoted phrase from Shakespeare’s Romeo and […]

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Bio-synergistic design, Critical commentary, Materials Management, Personal Reflections, Sustainability in Depth, The Profession

Greenwash – Buyer Beware

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We were at the toy store (Home Depot) this weekend to shop for some stains and sandpaper for finishing up a built in shelving unit […]

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Critical commentary, Energy, Materials Management, Products

“Enough is as good as a feast” Mary Poppins

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Okay, so most people probably don’t write serious commentary based on words of wisdom from a children’s story character, especially one reeking with tricky magic […]

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Critical commentary, Energy, Materials Management, Personal Reflections

Green Holidays

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Something Else to be Thankful For: Energy Efficiency -(times to gather and celebrate are here….) Thanks to Heather Saunders of NYSERDA In case you didn’t […]

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Energy, Materials Management, Products

repair what you wear

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Lovin’ the age!!! Makes me feel better about darning my smartwool socks! Darn you, socks. http://adage.com/article/creativity-pick-of-the-day/black-friday-patagonia-repair-buy/245425/ Jodi Smits Anderson, AIA, LEED-AP BD+C, GPRO Instructor Director […]

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