Green Infrastructure

Secret Cities, 75 Years Later: Bechtel Highlights Future of Los Alamos, Hanford, Oak Ridge

A museum exhibit profiling a largely untold aspect of a turning point of the 20th century opened today in the U.S. capital, sponsored in part by Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement, and construction. The new exhibit, called Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project, examines the innovative design and construction of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico; looks at daily lives within the cities, and addresses each city’s development since the conclusion of the Project.

Environment

Advisory: US Department of State, US Embassy San Salvador, and the World Environment Center to Host Webinar on ‘Power to Grow’

On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 4:00 PM EST, the US Department of State, US Embassy San Salvador, and the World Environment Center will host a webinar on ‘Power to Grow.’

Events, Media & Communications

International Living Future Institute Kicks off 12th Annual Living Future unConference in Portland

The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) today kicked off the 2018 unConference, a sold-out gathering of 1,000+ experts in green building, placemaking and regenerative design from around the globe. Author and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams, opens the conference; other keynote speakers include sustainable food activist Raj Patel and revitalization strategist Majora Carter. Challenging the status quo of everything from how we redesign buildings and products to systems and communities is at the heart of this year’s conference, which is built around the theme, “Authenticity + Action.”

Events, Media & Communications

How Social Sustainability Can Change the Industry

In this interview with Green Building + Design, Mohawk's VP of Sustainability discusses the lessons he has learned over time that helped him distrupt the industry.

Green Infrastructure

Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Keep America Beautiful Award More Than 900 Recycling Bins Through 34 Grants to Improve Recycling in Public Parks

Public space recycling efforts in dozens of communities across the U.S. will be getting a boost this spring thanks in part to a significant contribution by Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE: DPS) in partnership with national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Dow Leadership in Action

In 2016, The Dow Chemical Company deployed 40 employees from across the globe to Cebu, Philippines as part of the company’s signature skills-based volunteer program, Leadership in Action. The Dow employees collaborated on six different projects as pro bono consultants for local government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to address local challenges. Now, two years later, one of the more comprehensive projects—to increase access to sufficient, affordable, and safe water to 50 households of Sitio Kabatbatan in the Buhisan Watershed—has been successfully completed and was turned over to the local community on March 9.

Green Infrastructure

Black & Veatch EPC Services Help Advanced Microgrid Solutions Meet California Energy Storage Goals

Black & Veatch has completed 20 first-of-a kind Hybrid Electric Buildings® in Irvine, California, part of the of the company’s efforts in support of Advanced Microgrid Solutions’ (AMS) commitment to provide Southern California Edison (SCE) with 50 megawatts of behind-the-meter battery storage capacity.

Sustainable Development Goals

Leveraging Partnerships for Water Security: Reducing Non-revenue Water in Uganda

Urban areas in many parts of Africa face the challenges of competition for water resources, inadequate infrastructure, droughts and water shortages, and non-revenue water loss—water that has been produced and is "lost" before it reaches the customer. In this post, Tetra Tech’s Leif Kindberg and Dr. Scott McCormick discuss how reducing the amount of water lost before it reaches the customer is integral to water security and the resiliency of urban water and sanitation services. All opinions expressed in this post are the authors’ own.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tetra Tech Is #1 in Water for 15 Years

Tetra Tech is Leading with Science® to deliver innovative solutions for its clients’ most challenging water problems around the world. In 2018 Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranked Tetra Tech #1 in Water in its “Top 500 Design Firms” issue for the 15th year in a row. Tetra Tech also advanced to the #4 spot out of 500 firms in the Design Firm ranking for 2018.

Environment

Powering a Greener Future

Next-generation 4G and 5G mobile networks are enabling innovations that protect the environment and improve quality of life. That was the key takeaway from “Celebrating Earth Day: The Power of Next Generation Networks to Advance Environmental Sustainability,” an event Verizon hosted earlier this week. Steve Rochlin of IO Sustainability moderated a panel of experts and innovators who discussed how mobile networks are supporting innovations that save energy and reduce carbon emissions.

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