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Talking Sustainability with Heidi Vassalotti of Crossville
In order for the design industry to thrive we must learn to do what we do sustainably. We must think about the impact our practices today will have on future generations. This Thursday at 5pm EST I’ll be hosting a Google Hangout with Heidi Vassalotti, sustainability guru for Crossville Tile.
Crossville has accomplished some amazing sustainability milestones in the last few years including:
- becoming a net consumer of waste, in other words Crossville consumes more waste than it creates.
- integrated recycled content into production of 100% of the company’s product lines.
- entering a landmark partnership with TOTO, to recycle pre-consumer fired porcelain fixures.
- creating the incredible Tile Take-Back Program
We’re going to talk about the philosophy behind Crossville’s sustainability initiatives and how Crossville took good intentions to profitable actions. You can join us live on Google Plus or watch on Youtube. Be sure to follow me on G+ or Twitter to catch the link when we go live Thursday at 5PM EST.
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Green is A Number - A Creative Stage Lighting Webinar I just found this on the Creative Stage Lighting Blog, and this is about an hour and 20 minutes’ worth of your time that will come in handy in the future. From Kevin Loretto’s Creative Stage Light…
This week @JimOnLight was good enough to share a presentation I did with Richard Cadena for the B’way Green Alliance. Interested in how to approach your next lighting design in a more sustainable way? Check it out.
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France Will Dim Its Lights to Conserve Energy The City of Lights is learning to conserve by reducing night time lighting consumption.
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In this post for Lighting Magazine I challenge the lighting design community to embrace sustainability. The problem here is twofold. When lighting designers put a stake in the ground to fight sustainability and the green movement, what they are saying is that today’s lighting is more important than tomorrow’s future.
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David Attenborough: ‘Humans are a plague on the Earth’
Radio Times: ‘We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so,’ warns renowned British naturalist David Attenborough in a controversial new interview.
‘It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde,’ says the natural history broadcaster whose career examining the natural world spans decades.
Wow. David Attenborough goes all in.
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Canada, US and Australia come in last in latest sustainability survey. The question, at least to me, is do these surveys really matter? If we’d ranked #10 instead of #16 would it have made a difference in terms of what policies we should be adopting or actions we should be taking?
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'Impact of climate change hitting home' Here’s the thing, and it’s sad. We won’t take action on climate change until we see and feel the results. We’re starting to now, will it be too late?
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Effects of climate change will be felt more deeply in decades ahead, draft report says -
HuffPo is up with a nice gallery of uses for your burned out incandescent light bulbs.
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Canada is going LEED in a big way.
