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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing The Wonders of Water Water is basic to life. Roughly 60% of your body is water, 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and humans die far more quickly from lack of water than from lack of food. The search for life on Mars continues because scientists […]

by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing It’s not easy being green when it comes to getting around Tampa Bay. Many of us are “car-dependent”, as the site WalkScore.com puts it. The score for my house – on a scale from 1 to 100, where 100 is the best – is 6. That’s not a typo

by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Since real estate and construction together comprise almost 20% of Florida’s 2011 GDP, let’s take a moment to talk about green building. Buildings – both residential and commercial – produce about 40% of CO2 emissions worldwide due to heating, cooling and lighting. This makes them one of the biggest

by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Here’s a health care story that is not about the Affordable Care Act. Rather, it’s about how green initiatives can dovetail with both quality care and affordable care. Nationally, the health care sector comprises 16% of U.S. GDP and produces 8% of greenhouse gas emissions annually. In Florida, health

by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Here’s a health care story that is not about the Affordable Care Act. Rather, it’s about how green initiatives can dovetail with both quality care and affordable care. Nationally, the health care sector comprises 16% of U.S. GDP and produces 8% of greenhouse gas emissions annually. In Florida, health

by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Happy Fourth of July! It seems an appropriate day to pause and consider how our government is addressing sustainability challenges. In fact, government at all levels is taking steps to: (1) overhaul its own operations to save money on things like water, energy and waste (2) regulate activities that

by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Sustainability covers a broad set of issues: energy, environment, food, water, waste, green building, transportation – the list goes on. Our survival depends on understanding and addressing those issues properly. And that means learning about the causes, effects and possible solutions to these challenges. We all need to go

by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Sustainability covers a broad set of issues: energy, environment, food, water, waste, green building, transportation – the list goes on. Our survival depends on understanding and addressing those issues properly. And that means learning about the causes, effects and possible solutions to these challenges. We all need to go

by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing If you live in Florida, it’s easy to take good food for granted. We are often a stone’s throw away from orange groves, beef cattle grazing placidly in pastures, or strawberry fields that stretch to the horizon. Local produce stands and farmers markets abound. But when viewed through a