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2/1/2012 5:13 AM EST  -   Think Tank
Formica Group launches VIVIX® exterior façade panels at EcoBuild 2012
For the first time in the UK, Formica Group will be introducing the newest addition to its materials portfolio with VIVIX® exterior façade panels. Answering an increase in demand for decorative, lightweight and robust rainscreen cladding, VIVIX is brand new to the UK market and will be on display for visitors to Ecobuild 2012, 20-22nd March...
National Trust signs up with Reconomy for waste management
 

Reconomy to supply UK-wide Waste Management services to the National Trust

1/31/2012 11:12 AM EST  -   RECONOMY
Reconomy, the UK’s market leader in outsourced waste management and recycling services, has signed a five-year supplier framework agreement with the National Trust. The Waste Management agreement, which applies across National Trust properties, includes general waste, mixed recyclables and glass, wash room services, and ad hoc hazardous waste.
National Trust employs over 5,000 full time staff, has more than...
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UT Arlington among first to receive sustainability certification for landscape

1/25/2012 5:12 PM EST  -   University of Texas at Arlington
The Sustainable Sites Initiative™, a new rating system for sustainable design in landscape and site development, has named UT Arlington’s The Green at College Park one of the first three projects in the world to be certified according to the organization’s rigorous benchmarks.

The announcement acknowledges UT Arlington’s commitment to sustainability as an integral part of College Park District, an entertainment,...
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LVH-Las Vegas Hotel & Casino doubles down on sustainability

1/10/2012 2:33 PM EST  -   CONCEPT AMENITIES
Sustainability and green business practices are more than a roll of the dice at the newly renamed LVH-Las Vegas Hotel & Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton).
Melbourne, Australia January 10, 2012 – Sustainability and green business practices are more than a roll of the dice at the newly renamed LVH-Las Vegas Hotel & Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton). In addition to the initiatives of its Project Green...
Balfour Beatty signs waste management agreement with Reconomy
 

Reconomy agrees £6m national waste management partnership with Balfour Beatty

12/14/2011 10:44 AM EST  -   RECONOMY
Reconomy, the UK’s market leader in outsourced waste management and recycling services, has signed a new sole supplier agreement with Balfour Beatty Group for the supply of skip services across all its operating companies.
Balfour Beatty is a world-class infrastructure business with a diverse range of services spanning financing, planning and design to construction, maintenance and support. As a global...

Siemens West Chicago Plant Earns Brilliance in Business 'Green Initiatives' Awar...

12/12/2011 7:05 AM EST  -   Siemens Industry, Inc.
ATLANTA, December 12, 2011 – The City of West Chicago, Ill recently recognized Siemens Industry’s local manufacturing operations with its Brilliance in Business “Green Initiatives” award during a ceremony at City Hall.

The Brilliance in Business program features six categories, including green initiatives, economic development, outstanding not-for-profit, community service, community image and small business of the...
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Cambridge Education’s director of sustainable leadership releases book on educat...

12/8/2011 7:23 AM EST  -   Mott MacDonald
Cambridge Education’s director of sustainable leadership Dr. Paul Clarke is releasing a book on the significant role education has in establishing the conditions for eco-intelligence. Education for Sustainability: Becoming Naturally Smart (The New Critical Idiom) addresses how we are ignoring the fact that we are destroying our planet and that our existing models of education are contributing to the...

The John Marshall Law School Initiates Sustainability Certificate to Meet Emergi...

11/18/2011 3:03 PM EST  -   The John Marshall Law School
The John Marshall Law School in Chicago is offering students a new certificate program in sustainability centering on the emerging, interdisciplinary area of sustainability and its increasing importance in real estate, transactional and regulatory work.

The 25-credit sustainability certificate is an outgrowth of the overall sustainability initiative started in the 2009-2010 academic year by the law school’s Center...
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Sustainability – Do we know what it really means?

11/16/2011 11:12 AM EST  -   Lilac James Co Ltd
Sustainability is in danger of becoming one of those meaningless words. One that is overused, sprinkled liberally within marketing copy because it looks good and that is what people want – isn’t it?
The thesaurus tells us that ‘Sustainable’ means ‘Maintaining an Ecological Balance.’ Exploiting natural resources without destroying the ecological balance of an area. So that is what it really means.
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Award: Best Renewable Energy Electricity Facility

11/15/2011 3:57 AM EST  -   Harper Adams University College
Harper Adams proud to win inaugural green infrastructure award
Harper Adams is celebrating winning one of the first ever Renewable Energy Infrastructure Awards.

The University College’s anaerobic digestion plant won the inaugural Electricity Facility Award, presented during a ceremony at London’s Royal Kensington Garden Hotel.

Harper Adams Estates Manager Paul Moran received the award from Charles Hendry,...