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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Your local reclaimed lumber dealer or architectural salvage retailer is your best option as it supports the local economy, requires fewer miles to transport the lumber to your building site and it allows you to have a look at the lumber in person and know exactly the quality you’re getting. Greenfiber® , manufactured in the U.S.,

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. Contamination by food and other foreign materials is another problem that literally gums up the works. This means that the recycled material eventually will end up in waste streams.

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Sustainability Guide for Hotels and Motels: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

Further, hotel waste consists largely of common recyclable materials – aluminum cans, cardboard, paper, plastic bottles and landscape waste – all materials that could be processed into a new useful material.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In October, Starbucks announced it would ramp up hiring of people of color to at least 30 percent of the corporate workforce and 40 percent of retail and manufacturing by 2025. Motivated to decarbonize, digitize and customize, Gutierrez has been advancing an integrated-power strategy to bring generation and retail together.

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Double your vacation fun on this gorgeous double decker bus hotel in Wales

AGreenLiving

The converted bus is located at Ceridwen Centre, an organic farm that offers a number of unique lodgings, such as converted barns, yurts and even a cool eco pod. Related: Vintage red double decker bus is converted into a cool, retro hotel The double decker bus is a great choice for families looking to get away for a bonding experience.

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Sustainable holiday gift ideas for your friends

AGreenLiving

Skincare Many conscious consumers are making the switch to skincare and beauty products made from all-natural, organic and cruelty ingredients and packaged in reusable or recyclable materials. To get some inspiration, check out our reviews of the best beauty retailers from the 2019 Indie Beauty Expo in Los Angeles.

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Inside Eastman's moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

Business Green

There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. Eastman's carbon renewal and polyester renewal technologies are forms of chemical recycling. But they aren't intended simply to displace mechanical recycling.