This guest post comes to us from David P. Tusa, CEO and President of Sharps Compliance Corp. (Nasdaq: SMED), a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical waste and unused dispensed medications generated outside the healthcare facility setting.…
B.A.D. Posts from Important Media
As most of you know, last Friday was Blog Action Day (B.A.D.), where bloggers across the Internet pull together to raise awareness about one issue. This year’s topic was water, which is important in so many different ways. Several sites on…
October Top News: Giant Penguins, Solar Planes that Fly for Years, Europe’s Clean Energy Progress, Obama’s Clean Energy Push, Peak Oil/Peak Coal/Peak Etc.
Wow, it’s harder to pick out the “must-share” news stories than I realized. Well, here are the news stories I wrote about in the past week or so that I thought it would be a crime not to mention here…
Panasonic Hosting… Earth Lunch Hour?
Panasonic is an electronics company, right? So, what’s it doing in the environmentally-friendly food world? Well, I guess even electronics companies have to eat… er, their employees do. In some sort of take-off on Earth Hour, I imagine, Panasonic is…
First Net-Zero Affordable Community! But…
There’s an exciting announcement out this week — the “first net-zero affordable community” is supposed to break ground on September 14th in Jerseyville, IL. It looks like a wonderful project in that 32 single-family homes renting for only $590 per…
Mexico Eco Resort & Spa Aims to Be Greenest Resort in World
People love to travel. Travelling is not the greenest thing to do, generally speaking, since both driving and flying are major contributors to global warming, air pollution, and water pollution. But if you are determined to travel, the least you…
Malibu ecoPARK Moving Forward [Video]
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It is not built yet, but if it does get built, it will be one of the greenest projects I’ve ever heard of. And the good news is that it has just received approval to begin construction. The project I’m…
Slow Food
Slow Food USA is a growing movement formed to protect many aspects of our food supply. Community work, activism, and sensual enjoyment of food are part of this grass roots movement, which is a part of the larger, global Slow Food…
Power Shifting from Nations to Cities
Cities are becoming more powerful than nations. Hopefully, they will use that power for good, not for evil.
Important Media Weekly Roundup
Some great recent news from the Important Media network. Read the rest of this entry »