The Waste, Trash and Fuel session drew a crowd at last year's symposium. Photography Copyright ©2013 Steven L. Lubetkin All Rights Reserved — at Temple UniversityWhen Brad Molotsky sketched a program outline on a napkin one night over beers, he had no idea it would become the first NJ/PA Sustainability Symposium. The region's
MoreCorporate Interiors' Renewed Environments refurbishes, rejuvenates, reconfigures and remanufactures old office furnitureFifteen years ago, Janice Leone (WBE), Principal of Corporate Interiors, became aware of the many tons of workstation components being dumped directly into landfills as businesses purchased new office furniture. Envisioning an alternative that extended the life of office furniture and kept functional material
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Adjustable height workstations at Glaxo Smith Kline’s new office at the Philadelphia Navy YardBig players in the global workplace interior manufacturing game have the potential to create big waste. Not so for Haworth, a family-owned interior furnishings supplier known for a commitment to sustainability that has included a goal of achieving zero-waste-to-landfill (ZWTL) status globally,
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If knowledge is power, the City of Philadelphia is about to become super-powered. In June 2012, Philadelphia City Council enacted a law that requires owners of non-residential buildings of more than 50,000 square feet to track data on energy and water consumption and make those benchmarks publicly available.
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The Lighting Practice was responsible for the sculptural and environmental lighting of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.In 1981, when now husband-and-wife Rob and Helen Diemer graduated from Pennsylvania State University with degrees in architectural engineering, they were entering an industry that wasn’t all that concerned with energy conservation. But about a decade ago, things started to
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Avi Golen & Jon Wybar: Waste WarriorsGiven Philadelphia’s revolutionary past, it’s no surprise the city is at the forefront of a revolution in sustainability. Or that a company called Revolution Recovery would be in the vanguard.
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If you’ve ever passed by a renovation or construction site, you’ve probably noticed the dumpsters crammed full of drywall, two-by-fours, metal, glass, plastic and other waste materials. But have you ever wondered where those materials go? Too often, it’s the landfill. For the past 40 years, Richard S. Burns and Company has made it their
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photo courtesy of Flickr user techfunIf there’s a strange odor on your block, unidentified smoke billowing out of an industrial area, or a diesel truck idling for hours and filling the air with exhaust, who are you going to call? The city’s Air Management Services, that’s who. As the enforcers of city, state and federal
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Clean Air Council Executive Director Joseph Otis Minott, Esq.Ever since the Clean Air Act came into being in 1963, there have been forces trying to subvert it. Since 1967, the Clean Air Council (CAC) has been fighting back, relentlessly defending the tenets of the act on behalf of the citizens of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New
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The event will take place at Drexel’s Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, home of the largest living biowall on the continent.On Nov. 22, the dynamic Drexel Smart House (DSH) hosts The Smart Affair, an evening of fundraising for the award-winning student-led experiment in sustainable urban living innovations, and Grid readers get in for half price. The
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