Tag: economy

Water

Bottled Water? What’s next? Bagged Air?

Post author By lindsaymcnamara
Post date January 21, 2013
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In college, I was involved with the Delaware Environmental Institute Student Programs Committee, where we encouraged students to become more “bottled water aware” and offered alternatives to buying bottled water (see Bottled Water Awareness on Campus). After graduation, I began working for an ocean advocacy non-profit, where we also try to discourage our network of citizens, […]

Sustainability

Brownfield Redevelopment — A Win-Win for the Economy and the Environment

Post author By lindsaymcnamara
Post date March 23, 2012
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Hydrocarbon spillages, solvents, pesticides, heavy metals, tributyltins, and asbestos. These are all typical pollutants found on Brownfield sites, an abandoned or underused industrial and commercial facility available for redevelopment, often times contaminated by the agents above. The EPA highlights success stories from 16 states across the nation, but perhaps the most well-known area in the […]

Tags brownfields, development, economy, EPA, NJDEP, Superfund, sustainability