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Meeting Spaces Work to Keep the Earth Clean and Green

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Food sustainability, clean oceans and repurposed rainwater Compared to the largely unexplored universe we inhabit; our little blue and green shimmering marble is small. Sustainably, Seattle Seattle, Washington, has always been a progressive leader in sustainability and environmental mindfulness.

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How Events Helped a ‘Fringe’ Diet Lifestyle Go Mainstream

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The inaugural Plant Based World Conference & Expo took place at New York City’s Javits Center in 2019. a headline in The Guardian asked in 2019. In fact, research from Ipsos Retail Performance tracked the surge in vegans from 2004 — a period of “obscurity” when just 290,000 Americans considered themselves vegan — to 2019 when 9.7

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

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But, she added, the event was just maintaining itself, and “with an average age of 63, it wouldn’t be sustainable in the long term. This meant including apprentices and students, landscape architects, sustainability practitioners, and products and services at the outer edge of innovation to feed the commercial side of the expo.

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Beyond Carbon-Neutral Hotels: Evolution of Eco-Friendly Hotels

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Over in New Haven, Connecticut, Hilton Hotels is working on—and accepting reservations starting May 19—the first “net-zero” hotel in the U.S. It’s all part of a plan laid out by the European Commission in December 2019. The 265-room Denver hotel being developed by Urban Villages will have 4,400 sq. A Net-Zero Option.

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