Hybrid owners place loyalty on short term savings when shopping for their next car. Recently pundits for NPR’s Marketplace Sustainability Desk announced a marked downtrend in hybrid vehicle purchases among green car owners who opt to return to standard combustion cars. Citing a survey from auto consultants, R.L. Polk, Marketplace’s discussion focused on findings demonstrating…
RP Siegel frequently contributes to Triple Pundit, a website devoted to sustainability initiatives favoring “people, planet, profits.” Recently Triple Pundit posted Siegel’s series exploring the advantages and disadvantages of four widely used energy sources that fuel American industry. Whether a fossil fuel or renewable energy, every source presents its own unique set of challenges. Complex…
Great Ecology, Inc. is an ecological consulting firm focused on the restoration, planning, and design of both natural and urban environments through sustainable solutions. Great Ecology works with a wide range of clients to add ecological, cultural, and economic value to developed, degraded, contaminated, and underutilized sites.
SustainableBusiness.com News Frogs, Bees, Bats are all in desperate trouble and scientists are scrambling to find out why, so far to little avail. Could there be a connection between the diseases that seem to be rapidly killing off the animals we depend on to pollinate our foods and protect us from insect invasions? Since 2006, the little…