Over the weekend Nicholas Kristof’s column in the New York Times opened a new front investigating endocrine disruptors. He referred to an investigative series on fire retardants by the Chicago Tribune. Plowing through this takes time, but the gist is that the...
By Bobby Moddrell, Manager of Training and Compliance, Custodial Services, University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin is a big place, twelve million square feet to keep clean in a big variety of buildings. For the past decade, we’ve cleaned using...
Besides our complex environmental challenges, businesses are entering a new Age of Connectivity. The technology of connection, while baffling at times, is easier to foresee than the human changes they might entail. The engineers of network growth are ebullient indeed....
No estimate of how much food is wasted is precise, but the EPA says that 14% of landfill waste is food scraps. Waste of food packaging (contrasted with food scraps) is hard to classify, but one can assume that much of the plastic and glass in a landfill is food...
Social trust is confidence that others we meet will not try to harm or cheat us, and that they will at least try to do what they say. To live well using a lot less, new business models have to increase resource sharing, which presumes more social trust than most of us...
This political as well as scientific issue has hung around for more than 50 years. About 80% of all antibiotics in the United States are fed to animals as disease prophylactics and as a growth stimulant. Recent developments promise to revive this dispute. Antibiotics...
If you've been following the amazing articles on this website I think you will agree that that any organization can do many things to reduce waste, cut cost, and improve the effectiveness of their organization. Investigating Compression Thinking has no downside except...
Leading edge research in the Built Environment is exploring the distribution of microbes found inside buildings. Many researchers have investigated other contaminants, but not microbes. Because we spend 90 percent of our time in buildings, the Built Environment has a...