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Sustainability is key at Guthrie Green

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The Guthrie Green park and arts complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma is using innovative geothermal systems for heating and cooling. read more.

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EPA Provides Technical Assistance Towards Sustainability Goals

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that 43 communities—rural, urban and suburban—will receive technical assistance to pursue sustainable growth that encourages local economic development while safeguarding people’s health and the environment. EPA consulted with the U.S. Pompano Beach, FL. Portland, ME. Seneca Nation, NY.

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Hertz Announces Worldwide Headquarters Campus Design

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“The new headquarters will be a highly sustainable and efficient world-class building, enabling us to create a best-in-class work environment for our employees. The LEED-certified headquarters building design incorporates the key elements of Hertz’s global rebranding initiative.

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EPA Celebrates 20 Years Of Superfund Redevelopment

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI), launched in 1999 with the goal of returning formerly contaminated lands to long-term sustainable and productive reuse for communities across the country.

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Children of the Sun

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The Tulsa World reports that the grant money was awarded to the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town to support a partnership between the tribe and the Euchee Butterfly Farm called the Raising Natives project. You read that right. They’re also used for butterfly releases at weddings, funerals and special events.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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Not only do logistics clusters have huge potential for jobs creation, they also are hubs of innovation of environmental sustainability. Louis, Tulsa, Little Rock and Memphis are just hours away. Growing trade volume feed these clusters which are becoming more efficient, in turn, and grow even further,” the MIT professor says.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Consistent with the past few years, the 24th Annual State of Logistics Report expects slow albeit sustainable growth for the future, with the logistics GDP hovering somewhere between 2.5 Wilson believes that “the economy and logistics sector will slowly regain sustainable momentum, but we will still experience unevenness in growth rates.”.