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Saving the earth on the cheap

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/CollegeAndFamily/RaiseKids/TheCheapestWayToSaveTheEarth.aspx?page=1 This article gives some personal tips on how to take some affordable steps to being “green”  or, as I prefer, efforts toward sustainability.

Going green means healthier, more productive workers

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/StockInvestingTrading/PayZeroInHeatingBills.aspx#pageTopAnchor Here is some more personal info for saving energy.  There are some links off of this page to efforts being made on a corporate scale to bring sustainable and healthy living/working concepts to building design.  A standard that more companies should strive for…. how many people consciously associate better work environments with significant cost savings and revenue gains through higher...

Reading & understanding “Green” Terms 101

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/homestyle/04/18/speak.green/index.html This article is a nice on on “green” terms 101. I was recently at NEMICE in Boston put on by MPINE.  We set up a booth with some green elements to it and handed out collateral on paper seeded with wildflowers.  It is a very sustainable collateral.  Have recipients read a short story or link (I suggest sending them to your website) and then they can bury the collateral in the ground, water it and hopefully have an even mo...