Archive for the 'Green-ities' Category

Goshen Schools gets into the energy business

May 11th, 2010

This is a cool story about a local school district investing in wind…because it’ll save themmoney over the next 25 years (probably more so with rising oil costs): The board first heard of the opportunity in January when Performance Services, an engineering and construction company that specializes in sustainability projects, said in January that public [...]

Why recycle e-waste?

April 25th, 2010

Current TV’s Vanguard program explores e-waste recycling in China. This is part of why RedPost is involved in e-waste recycling:

Recycling day at RedPost

March 10th, 2010

Yesterday was recycling day here at RedPost, with ADEC coming to pick up our e-waste and BetterWorld Books emptying out our book recycling bin we host. ADEC picked up 7 CPUs, 12 TVs, 22 CRTs, 24 printers, 10 VCR/DVD players/stereos, 3 microwaves and a host of other electronics. BetterWorld Books collected well over 100 books [...]

Email gone wild: reign in unruly email signatures

February 18th, 2010

Email signatures really have got out of hand. They started out as a nifty feature way back in the 90s where you could predefine signatures for your email messages so you wouldn’t have to copy and paste something standard every time you wrote an email. But they’re really out of hand. They’ve gotten so long, [...]

Web services’ continuous improvement

September 15th, 2009

One thing I love about the emerging web world is that there are no longer these huge 1.0, 2.0 etc. feature releases. While there are occasional large upgrades to websites, usually, new features come as they’re developed. Like WalkScore’s new comparison feature which tells you what your score is like relative to the rest of [...]

RedPost/Recycle Update

September 1st, 2009

All of this: Used to be in here: We’re doing a trial run with ADEC, a local non-profit who’s mission is “Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities.” ADEC disassembles the electronics at their facility in Elkhart; they recently received a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to do so. After the trial run, we’ll see [...]

The future of RedPost/Recycle?

August 27th, 2009

RedPost/Recycle, which is currently closed due to being too successful, taking too much electronics and not having a sustainable funding mechanism, is maybe this to-rename-unnamed facility in Columbus, Ohio, which I scoped out this week? It remains to be seen. If it does happen, we’d be able to offer free recycling through a local non-profit [...]

Email informing of Snail Mail: Really?

July 17th, 2009

I just got an email that my local bank, Goshen Community Bank, which has been awesome to work with, by the way, is upgrading their online banking system with lots of new, exciting features: ?Get up-to-the-minute updates on cashed checks, electronic transactions, in-bank cash deposits, a account transfers and Bill Pay transactions (up-to-the-minute ATM/debit card [...]

Whoa: Wal-Mart starts to seriously tackle sustainability

July 17th, 2009

This is huge (hat tip: Treehugger). Wal-Mart has a massive influence on the U.S. manufacturing supply chain, from raw materials to store shelf. They’re starting the process to measure the sustainability of all their products. This will have ripple effects throughout the entire manufacturing and supply chain industry in the U.S. over the next couple years, [...]

WalkScore and the 2009 Federal Transportation Bill

July 13th, 2009

WalkScore is this nifty little website I blogged about back in 2007 — it gives you a numerical rating of the walkability of a location (our office is an 89, what’s your home/office?), with certain limitations, the main one being that it calculates distances based on how the crow flies, so, if there’s a lake [...]