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Ecocentricity Guest Blog: Go Big or Go Home
This guest blog is from Will Courrèges-Clercq, who is studying Business Adminstration at the Scheller College of Business. Will has taken classes from the sustainability curriculum at the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainability, and he and his teammates recently won the Georgia Tech Carbon Reduction Challenge.
Visiting the Birthplace of Coffee: Jimma, Ethiopia
Have you heard the story of Kaldi the goat herder and his frolicking herd? The famous Ethiopian legend tells the story of Kaldi who noticed how excited his sheep became after eating fruit from a certain tree. Curious, Kaldi tried the fruit. Soon he was bursting with energy. After watching the odd behavior of Kaldi and his herd, a monk took some of this strange cherry fruit back to his monastery where monks spent the night awake and alert. Kaldi is often credited as the first person to discover coffee.
Top 5 Evergreens Sold Through the Arbor Day Tree Nursery
Evergreen trees offer numerous benefits when strategically planted around your home. They provide year-round color in the winter when other trees are bare. Additionally, evergreens can be used as a living snow fence, keeping cold winds out which results in lower energy costs.
World Wildlife Fund Launches Free Educational Resource for Teachers and Parents
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) connects educators and parents with the materials they need to help kids explore and understand the natural world around them with a new educational resource, Wild Classroom. Now available for free download, Wild Classroom is a growing library of species-focused toolkits that can be used to enhance children’s learning inside or outside of a traditional learning environment.
Food Well Alliance Releases Atlanta’s First Local Food Baseline Report
At its annual Love Local event, Food Well Alliance released Atlanta’s first Local Food Baseline Report, a snapshot of the social, economic, ecological and nutritional impact of the city’s current local food system. A $2 million grant from the James M. Cox Foundation was also announced at the event.

Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council Hosts Recycler Roundtable
On Wednesday, October 11, the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) will host a first-of-its-kind recycler roundtable in Chicago as part of the Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference. The half day workshop will provide recyclers with the opportunity to learn about healthcare plastics, including resin types, forms, potential volumes and end markets.
Domtar Sustainability: Sourcing Raw Materials
Each year, about two-thirds of our revenue is spent on materials and services needed to make our products. Whenever possible, we source from local suppliers near our facilities. This helps us shorten our supply chain and reduce risk. Proximity allows us to know our suppliers and ensure they produce our materials and render services responsibly, in addition to strengthening the local economy.
Domtar Sustainability: Creating Value for Our Communities
Domtar has been a centerpiece in some of our communities for more than a century. We depend on them, and they depend on us. For every 100 jobs in our facilities, an additional 325 jobs are created.* We have focused on repurposing our assets and executing our growth strategy to keep our facilities viable for the long term.
Injured Bald Eagle Takes Flight Again in Manitoba
Steve Loney, a TransCanada employee, works with Manitoba's Wildlife Haven and the Waywayseecappo First Nation to rehabilitate and release an injured bald eagle. TransCanada has been proud to support Wildlife Haven for more than 20 years, after a land agent spotted an owl on the shoulder of a volunteer in the 1990s and became engaged with the organization.
Caterpillar's Real-Time Energy Data Helps Drive Results
Seeing is believing. That maxim has proven to be true at Caterpillar China Machinery Components Co. Operator Station Facility in Wuxi, China.

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