It’s Time for Some Serious Trash Talk.

With that slogan splashed across the facemask of an imposing Philadelphia Eagle football player, you enter the Eagles’ Go Green website, exhibit A in my challenge to my good friend Mardi Ditze. She wrote two weeks ago about sports’ detrimental environmental impact that sporting events create, but sports and teams can actually help lead important changes on a wide range of sustainability issues, and my...

I don’t usually rifle through my wife’s mail (ok, yes I do), especially her alumni magazine from her high school, Buckingham, Browne and Nichols, in Cambridge, MA. When I turned to the back cover of the most recent issue, I received a nice surprise: Community Energy’s Printed with 100% Wind Energy logo staring back at me in all its glory. I was excited to see the printer and our customer, Flagship Press, using the logo to demonstrate their...

Last weekend I helped my sister with some yard work.  The mission was to move a storage shed onto my sister’s property from her neighbor’s yard. The mission was grueling, but it proved to be environmentally rewarding. 

The shed itself had been our playhouse when we were kids.  I don’t dare tell you how old that makes the shed, but numerous owners have used and recycled it many times.  We decided on the location for the shed...

It’s really nice to work for a company that cares for and gives back to its community.  It might not seem like much, but working for a conscientious company that encourages employee volunteering creates satisfaction that extends far beyond the job itself.  Recently, our company began to officially sanction and support its employees' volunteer efforts by granting two half-days a year to leave work and donate time to a charitable...

As we near the conclusion of March Madness and many going mad over the games (my office is about one mile away from the Villanova campus), I began thinking about the events themselves.  Sure, the games are social and community-oriented with a healthy splash of competition, but, in the spirit of most of my blogs, I ask: What about the environmental impact? 

Depending on how excited the supporters are, thousands of people travel to get...