by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Whole Foods Market in Carrollwood is open! Driving past on November 1, I was pleased at how busy it looked. Little did I know it would take me 4 tries to get in. Every parking spot was taken, cars snaked around the parking lot, and a police car (or […]
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing In the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy, Business Week’s cover says it all – “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” It is good to see this topic make the front page, not just in mainstream media, but in the business media. Because while business, it can be argued, is part of
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing For a weather geek, it’s hard to think of anything right now besides Hurricane-Now-Tropical-Storm Sandy, which came ashore Monday night in Atlantic City, NJ. Even as it weakens, it continues to churn away – flooding roads, damaging buildings, and leaving millions of people without power. The destruction is New
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing I had the pleasure this morning of talking with David Reed, one of the founders of the Sustany® Foundation. With the Fifth Annual Sustany® Buzz benefit gala just around the corner on November 8, it seems a good time to reflect on where Sustany® has been and where it’s
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Last week, I flew to a business conference in lovely Phoenix, AZ. I usually avoid flying, but driving over 2000 miles each way was not an option. So I took the opportunity to look a little more closely at the environmental impacts of flying. It turns out that Tampa
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Electric vehicles (EVs) have arrived – including the Chevy Volt, the Nissan LEAF, and the Ford Focus Electric. They offer pretty much all the amenities of gas-powered cars, but with a mileage equivalent of about 100 miles per gallon. We even have our own St. Pete-based Suncoast Electric Vehicles,
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing If you blinked on Monday, you missed the $1 million in solar rebates that were claimed by Tampa Electric (TECO) customers in one minute (according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal). As a TECO customer who did not know the rebates were coming (because they don’t advertise them) and
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing One way to go greener, both at home and at work, is to replace your incandescent light bulbs. Both CFLs (compact fluorescents) and LEDs (light emitting diodes) use about 75% less electricity than incandescents. According to a new Department of Energy report, LEDs edge out CFLs in the environmental
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing In case you missed it, in late August the federal government announced new fuel efficiency standards that vehicles must attain by 2025. It’s an average of 54.5 miles per gallon. (This is in contrast to the 35.5 mpg benchmark we are currently working towards by 2016.) These standards were
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Two big name grocery stores have arrived to meet the demand for more organic, non-genetically-modified, and sustainably-sourced foods. The first is Trader Joe’s in Sarasota, which just opened last week. If the Tampa Bay Times is correct, the first shoppers through the door on opening day were from –
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