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Corporate Sustainability Reports In the current Age of Sustainability, businesses small and large are taking vast leaps and bounds to reduce their environmental footprint. Companies boast sustainability efforts such as paperless billing, LEED certified offices, compostable packaging, and recycled content as means of demonstrating their environmental commitment. Unfortunately, such valuable efforts are often intertwined in complex marketing initiatives that tend to marginalize their importance and create illusions of greenwashing . With so much “green” surrounding society, consumers often wonder, how one can distinguish legitimate corporate efforts from their marketing ploys?
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Switching to Sun: Hybrid solar collectors may help with the transition to renewable energy The sun not only supports all life on earth, it also has the potential to meet the world’s energy needs. Solar energy is one of the most promising forms of renewable energy. Despite continuing improvements in solar technology, this resource is still scarcely used. The U.S. Department of Energy reported that only .07% of the energy used in the U.S., both for electricity and transportation, comes from solar power. With such a small portion of energy coming from solar sources, increasing the efficiency of solar systems is crucial. One way of improving solar efficiency is through hybrid collectors.
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Oil Spill Begs Questions of Sustainability Oil Spill Begs Questions of Sustainability The Gulf Coast remains in a catastrophic state nearly two months after the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig sank. The drilling rig, owned by Swiss drilling company Transocean, was leased to the petrochemical giant, British Petroleum (BP). Law requires BP to assume the mounting clean-up costs, multiple lawsuits, and overall responsibility for the spill.
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Sustainable Computing Over the past half century, computers have made their mark on society. What once was a luxury technology has transformed into a necessity in both everyday life and the workplace. Computers have become a natural part of many social landscapes, frequently appearing in restaurants, coffee shops, libraries, retail stores, gyms, museums, and everywhere in between. Given their prevalence, one rarely pauses to think about computers from an environmental perspective and the deep footprint that technologies leave behind.
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World Green® - The Sustainability Social Network

About the World Green® Community

Leonardo Academy's vision for World Green® is to fundamentally transform the way we think about sustainability by providing a forum for sharing information and working together on green actions.

World Green® is a unique online sustainable community created to help social entrepreneurs on all levels develop and communicate the impact of their green actions. By providing a forum for the discussion of environmentally sustainable materials, reduction of negative environmental impacts and increased energy efficiency, Leonardo Academy extends its knowledge-base freely to the public. Leonardo Academy also emphasizes designs and materials that safeguard the health of residents and locations.

World Green® is designed to help companies, investors, builders and home owners make the transition to a greener future and a sustainable living standard.

Leonardo Academy’s World Green® Community provides a forum for sharing information and working together on green actions. This site launch will be followed by upgrades that include additional communication channels and interoperability with other social media sites. Leonardo Academy would like to leverage its knowledge with all sustainable communities to help create a World Green® Vision.

Leonardo Academy is a (501c3) nonprofit organization founded in 1997 that is dedicated to advancing sustainability and putting the competitive market to work on improving the environment.

Leonardo Academy is a Think and Do Tank. We develop and distribute strategies, guidance, metrics, standards, education, and information on how to increase sustainability. We also help companies, organizations, families, and individuals successfully promote, encourage, and implement sustainability. Our integrated approach makes sustainability very practical for our clients.

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