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Washington, District of Columbia
Eco-Coach is an environmental sustainability consulting company that helps businesses and individuals be more eco-friendly and energy efficient while keeping in mind the bottom line. Services include eco-assessments, sustainability strategy and benchmarking consulting, LEED building certification... Full Bio
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New online tool helps businesses track impacts through their supply chain by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living You want your company to improve its community and eco-image and along with that, you want to know what your suppliers are doing to spiff up theirs as well.  It can be a l ... Read on »
Passive Homes by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living What is a passive home, and what does it have to do with environmental sustainability? A passive home or passivaus in German, is a house (any building can be passive with ... Read on »
Crowdsourcing competitions that help the environment by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living In the spirit of joining the collective effort for a healthier planet in celebration of Earth Day (April 22) ,we have rounded up three crowdsourced competitions that will ... Read on »
Opportunities to solve eco-challenges by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living In the spirit of  Earth Month, EMC Corporation , Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) , and InnoCentive Inc , are looking for eco-innovators to help solve the challenge of ele ... Read on »
The Greening of the U.S. Car Industry by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The car industry in the United States isn’t known for its particular environmentalism, especially compared to European or Japanese cars. Fortunately, recent regulations ha ... Read on »
Greening Hospitals by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The health care industry has a great, untapped potential to be more environmentally friendly. Currently hospitals in the U.S. create 6,600 tons of waste per day . There ar ... Read on »
Does Purchasing Eco-Friendly Products Go Against the Basics of Environmentalism? by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The green movement has created many options to help the environment, including green consumerism, which entails buying products that are more environmentally friendly than ... Read on »
Lego Going Green by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Denmark based Lego Group is investing over $500 million in green energy over the next four years. The worlds’ third largest toy manufacturer owned by family investment fir ... Read on »
Review of Four Carbon Calculators for Business (and a few other cool tools) by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living If your company is just starting down the road of sustainability, and you’d like to get a sense of just how much your carbon emissions contribute to the CO2 on the planet, ... Read on »
Are you energy efficient? by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living How can you become more energy efficient? This question is brought up in more places than ever these days, from corporation boardrooms to the dinner table. Everyone is won ... Read on »
10 ways to make your next event an eco-conscious occasion by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Business meetings, events and office parties can create a large amount of waste and drive up your utility bill in a small amount of time. Holding an eco-friendly event can ... Read on »
Food Waste: Waste Not Want Not by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living It’s well known that our society produces too much waste, but food waste is particularly important because there is an easy alternate solution: composting. However, c ... Read on »
Four Notable Online Carbon Calculators for Business (and a supplemental paper calculator) by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living If your company is just starting down the road of sustainability, and you’d like to get a sense of just how much your carbon emissions contribute to the CO2 on the planet, ... Read on »
16 easy ways to cut down on your waste stream at work by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Using as many of these tips as possible will cut down on costs your workplace has related to trash disposal, help your employees get in touch with their waste stream and e ... Read on »
The Most Sustainable Companies of 2011 by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living It’s that time of year again, compiling multiple summaries of anything and everything that happened in 2011 that you could care to read about: the Top Energy Stories ... Read on »
Washington, DC Truly LEEDs the Nation! by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Washington, DC has been announced as the leader in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)! In the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual list of the top 1 ... Read on »
Energy conservation or energy efficiency? Or both? by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Saatchi & Saatchi’s  Strategy for Sustainability winter 2012 newsletter featured a recent article featured from the Guardian   that highlighted the fact that we now use 15 ... Read on »
Too Dry or Too Wet? by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Depending on the difference between the humidity of the outside and inside air, your house can either be too dry or too wet. In the winter time, outside cold air is drier ... Read on »
Which is better for the environment-using paper or a computer? by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living With the rise in popularity of mobile devices, such as smart phones, tablets, and e-readers, the question of whether it is better to read something on an electronic device ... Read on »
US EPA Green Power Partnership by EcoCoach Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living As awareness about volatile energy prices, our energy supply’s impact on national security, and energy consumption’s impact on climate change grows, renewable energy is pr ... Read on »