Sustainable Shipping

Nate C. Hindman

Business Owners Brace For Massive USPS Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Small Business Shipping, Video, Small Business Owners, Small Business, Post Office Closings, United States Postal Service, Sustainable Shipping, Postal Service, Small Business Operation, Post Office, Small Business News and Trends, Postal Service Cuts, Shipping, Small Business News

"Grandma may soon have to get in the car and drive 100 miles for her medicine," worried Bill Snodgrass, the owner of a USave Pharmacy in a small Nebra...

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Nine-Story Mall Made Of Shipping Containers Coming To Midtown?

Runnin' Scared | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ny Shopping, NY Real Estate, Recycling, Green Living, Sustainable Shipping, Recession, Lot-Ek, New York News

Architecture firm LOT-EK has proposed bringing a nine-story mall made of stacked shipping crates to 42nd Strett and 5th Avenue, according to design bl...

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Creative Ways To Recycle Packing Peanuts

thedailygreen.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polystyrene, Sustainable Shipping, Recycle, Recycle Materials, Reuse, Green Living, Packing Peanuts, Shipping, Green News

Traditional packing peanuts are made out of polystyrene and are now color coded to indicate the origin of the material they contain. Polystyrene takes...

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Costco, Wal-Mart's New Milk Jug: More Efficient, Less Popular

New York Times | Stephanie Rosenbloom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Weird Milk Jug, Sustainable Materials, Sustainable Packaging, Green Living, Sustainable Infrastructure, Sustainable Shipping, Sam's Club, New Milk Jug, Costco, Wal-Mart, Business News

NORTH CANTON, Ohio -- A simple change to the design of the gallon milk jug, adopted by Wal-Mart and Costco, seems made for the times. The jugs are che...

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Cargo Ships To Get Greener By Simply Slowing Down

The Guardian | Juliette Jowit | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shipping Pollution, Transport Secretary, Ruth Kelly, Sustainable Shipping, Cargo Speed Limit, Green News

Lumbering across the world's oceans at a leisurely pace, they seem relatively blameless compared with planes or lorries. But the role of cargo ships i...

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