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The City of Tucson Goes Gray
On September 23, 2008 I was touring the Upper Santa Cruz River with Amy McCoy of the Sonoran Institute as my watershed tour guide. The trip was awesome; I never knew that the southeast corner of...
View ArticleKeep on Truckin’
I was enjoying my early morning quiet office when the phone rang. The man at the other end, Jason, uttered a polite good morning, asked if I worked on air quality issues, and then started firing...
View ArticleGreen Plumbers Combat Climate Change
Back in the day, when I thought about green plumbers, the famed video game character, an Italian plumber named Luigi, came to mind. But while his hat and suspenders may have been green in color, he...
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Pharos Project Recognized for Taking Green Labeling to New Heights
Links on this page may exit EPA. I’m always on the lookout for healthy and green products, but it’s tough to get unbiased information on a product’s real impacts. Now that green is hot, greenwashing –...
View ArticleLas Vegas Recycler Recognized for being EVERGreen!
Last year, I got a call from Dr. Kim Cochran, EPA’s construction and demolition expert in DC. She was going to a Demolition Convention in Las Vegas and wanted to set up a tour with Evergreen Recycling....
View ArticleLeading Cultural and Sustainable Building
I first heard about Paula Allen and the Potawot Health Village in 2008, during a Regional Tribal Operations Committee meeting on green buildings. Paula’s name came up when people began discussing...
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Aquatic Leadership on Tribal Lands
I have known and worked with Dan Mosley for almost 15 years, and every moment has been a great experience. In 1989, Peter Husby a biologist in EPA’s Richmond, California laboratory, and I started...
View ArticleSewer Science Plunges in to Environmental Education
When I told my 8-year-old neighbor about Sewer Science, he asked, “Is that like detention?” I suppose a high school science laboratory that teaches students about wastewater treatment (how poop is...
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Toyota Drives Toward Zero Waste
I’ve been fortunate to work with some amazing environmentalists in government and business, but some people really stand out as extreme environmental leaders. Each year our senior managers locked...
View ArticleHealthy Health Care Leader – Kaiser Permanente
One of my closest friends, Stephanie Davis, did pioneering work in the early days of green health care. As she battled cancer, we often laughed and cried about the unhealthy hospitals and medical...
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