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Don’t Eat At Your Desk! – Bringing Active Design to Work
October 7, 2010
There is a certain fundamental irony at play in many office workplaces around the country. On the one hand, there is an increased focus on employee wellness, which comes with the recognition that if you make employees happier and healthier, they are more likely to be productive and stay with your company in the long run. It makes good sense, therefore, to explore creative ways to enhance that wellness.
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How to Talk About Your Toys
September 16, 2010
Big news from the Coast Guard this past week, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News: the installation of a 2.4 kilowatt wind turbine (!) --  announced at a press conference replete with earnest speeches and featuring, as backdrop, the plucky little machine itself, spinning away atop its tower.
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Finding Your Green Matzo Ball – Stirring Sustainability into the Company Soup
September 2, 2010
Ever been to the offices of a company with a major corporate sustainability initiative (or at least a major green marketing initiative), where from the outside you’d assume that the workers have blood as green as Prince Baron (Timothy Dalton) in Flash Gordon? 
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The Updated FTC Green Guides: A Light in the Darkness?
August 30, 2010
Many of you out there may be waiting with baited breath for the release of the new FTC Green Guides, slated for release in the coming months, to help cull the flood of spurious environmental claims that are flooding our lives. It’s the first update in 12 years, a period in which, one could argue, environmental concerns took seed in the consumer market, and as many people have likely noticed – the need for some kind of guidance is significantly past due.
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