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Skipping back to the future

April 7, 2008

Oh no!, It’s back! Leigh has posted this image of another skip full of computer packaging polystyrene. As we’ve discussed before, the recyclers won’t take it as is no good to them until is part of a closed loop (ie they know exactly what is in it), the reuse stream is choked (although I grabbed […]

Green criteria in purchasing – an example

February 29, 2008

Here is another example of a tender document we responded to last week. This one from a quasi-governmental organisation in NZ (there’s lots of good example statements coming from the Govt3 programme). xxx is committed to sustainable development, and will seek to procure sustainable products, works and services wherever possible. Ref Description Requirement Response […]

Green purchasing report: policy needs to state premium

December 19, 2007

As a precursor to the Green Purchasing Summit last month, EyeForProcurement conducted a survey of environmentally preferable purchasing. The report hides behind a registration wall here. Unfortunately the report does not give enough detail of methodology for many of the statistics to be very useful. Figures such as the percentages employing (or not) green purchasing […]

Spot the Greenwash

December 10, 2007

Here’s something else for the “low hanging curricula“. All students should be able to recognise these “Six Sins of Greenwashing” from Terrachoice (pdf, and podcast on Greenbiz radio). Green·wash (grēn’wŏsh’, -wôsh’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service. We’ve […]

Best transformative resources for sustainability?

August 25, 2007

Karlson ‘Charlie’ Hargroves is the Executive Director of the The Natural Edge Project. He sent us these open source education materials. Their whole system design suite gives a comprehensive introduction to whole system design approach as the basis for transformative action. Education for Sustainability has to be more than “bolt on” environmental papers in existing […]