Download the document. As hotel companies seek in good faith to determine and report their carbon footprints, often in response to stakeholder requests, the issue
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Hotel Sustainability: Financial Analysis Shines a Cautious Green Light
Download the document. Hotels around the world have risen to the challenge of improving their sustainability and reducing their carbon footprint. Although many groups and
Nova Scotia Sustainability Center Gives New Life to Library Discards
Read the full story in Library Journal. Dalhousie University’s library system was in a bind. Bound books, mostly out-of-date academic journals that had since been
Soil Nutrient Availability Properties of Biochar
Download the Master’s thesis. Biochar’s high porosity and negative surface charge allows for numerous soil and plant benefits such as increased water retention, high nutrient
USDA Announces Cool Planet and the Bioenergy Alliance Network of the Rockies Receive $10 Million to Develop Sustainable Biofuels from Beetle-Killed Wood
Read the full press release. Cool Planet Energy Systems, a developer of small scale bio-refineries for the conversion of non-food biomass into biofuels and soil
Environmentally friendly energy discovered in wood biochar
Read the full story in the Daily Illini. A wood biochar supercapacitor may seem like a burnt piece of wood in a small plastic container
