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 […]

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

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,

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

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

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

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 –

by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Too often, people think that adopting sustainable practices means giving something up. That’s not necessarily the case.  Take, for example, the process of turning waste into energy. Waste is a big problem – everywhere. Trash, garbage – that stuff you put out at the curb that magically disappears –