Environmental Management and Business Institute
UW-Green Bay
$2.5 million in Career Ready Internship Initiative grants were awarded to 19 Wisconsin colleges and universities. These grant recipients will create new paid internships and convert existing unpaid internships into paid internships for nearly 1,300 college juniors and seniors by working
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After nearly three years of engagement with As You Sow, McDonald’s agreed on September 24, 2013 to replace its polystyrene foam hot beverage cups with paper-based cups at all 14,000 U.S. restaurants. http://www.asyousow.org/sustainability/McDonalds.shtml
The Bloomberg administration hopes to introduce legislation requiring hospitals, hotels, universities and other large-scale producers of food waste to make it into something useful rather than just send it to landfills or incinerators, sources told Crain’s New York Business, a
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Dairy’s Sustainability Journey is a new video series produced by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy® in collaboration with World Wildlife Fund ®. It features the 2013 winners of the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards on our farms, sharing our stewardship
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Around the world some 1.3 billion tonnes of food waste is produced annually, at a direct economic cost of some $750 billion, according to a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). http://www.waste-management-world.com/articles/2013/09/food-waste-costing-the-earth-and-750-billion-per-year.html
At the newest power plant in Wisconsin, fuel will come from close to home. Unlike coal, which is brought in by train from Wyoming and Appalachia, biomass will be culled from the sawmills and forests of northern Wisconsin. http://www.jsonline.com/business/power-plant-to-run-on-wisconsin-biomass-b9985790z1-221960911.html?NL=WST-03&Issue=WST-03_20130906_WST-03_998&YM_RID=arendtjo@uwgb.edu&YM_MID=1421057&sfvc4enews=42