Editor's note: This blog post was written by Fred Clements, executive director of the National Bicycle Dealers Association. Clements' previous blogs can be read on? A future world without bike shops would be a disaster for the cycling ...
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The Texas Operations of Eastman Chemical Company has received the 2012 "Sustained Excellence in Caring for Texas" award from the Texas Chemical Council (TCC.) Eastman was one of two Sustained recipients among TCC member facilities with more ...
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Ripple Glass, a glass recycling company in Kansas City, Mo., is donating more than 2,300 square feet of Owens Corning’s PINK fiberglass insulation to Habitat for Humanity of Phelps County. The insulation was made from bottles and ...
Springfield is now sending glass to Ripple Glass in Kansas City. The company rewarded the city's recycling efforts with fiberglass insulation. June 21, 2013|by Linda Russell, [email protected] and photojournalist Robin Yancey Share on ...
Sand filters have been employed on the East Anglian Broads in the United Kingdom to reduce the impact of phosphates in sewage discharge. Filtration+Separation looks at achievements in managing eutrophication, and understanding its complex ...
In putting together this year's special report on kitchen remodeling trends, Consumer Reports spoke to designers, architects, remodeling contractors, among other professionals. But we also checked in with our Facebook fans to learn what ...
This year’s Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 was an exciting visit that Après couldn’t miss. We explored through The Farmiloe Building and some other prominent furniture show-rooms around, met with many friends and partners ...
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To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
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This week, Clerkenwell will be London’s centre of creativity. Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 will host 60 showrooms, a large number of manufacturers with new projects and designs, with special guests, designers and architects. For three ...
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In the search for green and eco-friendly living, eco-friendly homes, and now eco-friendly furniture, a new type has emerged, water hyacinth furniture. Those of you who thought water hyacinth only spelled destruction, here's some interesting ...
The DIY-superstore sales channel Homebase of the British Home Retail Group suffered a decline in turnover in the 2012/2013 financial year (end of February) of 5.2% to £1.43bn. Adjusted for selling space, revenues were down by 4.9%. ...
The 2013 Rakow Grant for Glass Research will support two studies by researchers Dr. Souen Fontaine of the Centre Camille Jullian (CNRS-Aix-Marseille University) in France and Dr. Rainer Richter of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. ...
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BASF employee volunteers joined Morris Habitat for Humanity recently to build homes for three families in Madison, New Jersey. More than 30 BASF employees worked on various aspects of construction, installing roofs, exterior walls and ...
Katie Wallace, sustainability specialist, New Belgium BrewingEarlier this year, New Belgium Brewing pledged a one-time donation of $10,000 to support a cost-benefit analysis of extended producer responsibility (EPR). The research is being ...
With the U.S. launch of its Turbo electric bike this week, Specialized joins the small list of brands that are looking to carve out space at the upper end of the market. E-bike buyers are typically older Baby Boomers, but Specialized is ...
Tags: E-Bike, Transportation, bike