Dangerous Bike Trails? 

In my last blog, Bike-able Communities, I discussed the dangers of biking in traffic and my solution to take my bike to a local trail, specifically the Schuylkill River Trail, for a safe ride.  A week later, I noticed the following headline on my local news feed: Shooting on Schuylkill River Trail.  As I had just recommended this trail, I felt that I should also present this new information! 

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This time it’s San Francisco, one of the first cities in the country to adopt a mandatory composting and recycling ordinance. The city has even moved to implement fines of up to $1,000 to buildings, mostly large waste producers, that fail to comply with the law. The hope is that by 2020, none of San Francisco’s annual two million tons of solid waste will make its way to a landfill.

Ambitious? Certainly. But how do they plan to deal with all of...

A recent unexpected cancellation of a flight to depart Chicago’s O’Hare airport left me sitting in the airport for 12 hours, without any particular effort to assist me or a single apology from anyone on the airline’s staff.  At this morning’s doctor’s appointment, the receptionist spoke shortly and gruffly when I checked in.

These experiences have left me thinking, where has customer service gone?  I want to feel valued and...

CEI is proud to announce our latest wind-powered customer – FatCow!  It has been fun to work with this creative web-hosting services company to help them get signed up for wind energy and promote their commitment. 

Their commitment to wind-generated RECs for their website services and data centers makes for a unique and exciting twist to the humor, down-to-earth language and eye-catching graphics on their website. 

Driven...

I love to ride my bike and have always wished that I could commute by bike to work.  It would be great to combine exercise and commute time, save gas money, and avoid emissions all in one simple act.  In the Philadelphia suburbs where my office is located, you take your life in your hands if you commute by bike (I welcome cyclists to challenge me on this assertion).  This office is full of active, athletic, environmentally...