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Sustainable ranching involves techniques like pasture rotation, range composting and other ways to reuse nature’s resources for the health of the land.

EarthTalk

Greener Guitars: Sustainably Harvested Tonewoods & Alternative Materials Take Center Stage

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer alternative, bamboo, Bedell, Blackbird, body, carbon fiber, certified, Congo Basin Institute, ebony, Emerald, ethically, Fender, finish, Flaxwood, Forest Stewardship Council, fretboard, FSC, gibson, guitar, harvested, KLOS, Luna, Martin, materials, McPherson, neck, RainSong, Richlite, rosewood, Seagull, sustainable, sustainably, Taylor, tonewood, Wood, woods

The fact that the so-called “tonewoods” that guitar makers have relied on for almost two centuries are now harder and harder to come by has left guitar makers scrambling to support replanting efforts in far flung locales and looking for sustainable alternatives that still imbue their instruments with pleasing tonal characteristics and eye-catching good looks…

EarthTalk

B Corporations to the Earth’s Rescue

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer accountability, B Corp, B Lab, Badger, Ben & Jerry’s, beneficial, benefit, business, C Corp, Cabot Cheese, certification, corporation, environmental, equity, Etsy, for-profit, incorporated, King Arthur Flour, label, limited liability, LLC, New Belgium Brewery, Patagonia, performance, Plum Organics, S Corp, Seventh Generation, social, Stonyfield Farm, sustainable, transparency, Warby Parker, Yvon Chouinard

“B-Corp” is a certification awarded by the non-profit B Lab to for-profit companies which meet rigorous standards of social & environmental performance…

Warming World

Anne Kelly Wonders If We Can Meet Our Paris Commitments Sans Trump?

Roddy Scheer Anne Kelly, business, Ceres, investment, investors, low-carbon, podcast, sustainable, Trump

Ceres’ Anne Kelly discusses prospects for businesses & states trying to meet our Paris climate agreement commitments even without Trump the administration.

Reading List

Patagonia Business Library Lights the Way for Sustainable Businesses of the Future

E The Environmental Magazine business, Let My People Go Surfing, Patagonia, responsible, sustainable, Tools for Grassroots Activists, Yvon Chouinard

The three best-selling books that comprise the The Patagonia Business Library together provide a primer for the future of sustainable business.

Eating Right

Greener Food: Sustainable Restaurants Pop Up Across North America, Europe

Courtney Delong ABC Kitchen, Black Cat Cafe, chef, chefs, eating, food, green, Leslie White, restaurant, restaurants, sustainable, Zacapa is Azurmendi, Zeal

Sustainable restaurants serving locally sourced, sustainably produced organic fare are popping up everywhere across North America and Europe these days.

Reading List

Parking Management for Smart Growth

E The Environmental Magazine book, cities, development, Island Press, parking, Parking Management for Smart Growth, planning, Richard W. Wilson, sustainable

In Parking Management for Smart Growth, planning professor and parking expert Richard W. Wilson provides a path forward for strategic parking management in a new era of tighter parking supplies. He asserts that without parking management, parking has become a free-for-all—a competitive sport—with arbitrary winners and losers. Historically drivers have been the overall winners in having free […]