Great Forest Newsletters

Great Forest's monthly newsletter features sustainability news, information and ideas for businesses and commercial buildings. It includes useful tips, regulatory updates, waste and recycling news, energy updates, green building project highlights and a Q&A.

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Jan. 2012: CRedit360 Partnership Provides Access to Fortune 500 Data Platform

Nov 2011:  Solar-Powered Trash Bins and Sustainable Black Fridays?

Oct. 2011:  Ten Lessons from Greenbuild; How to Activate Green Thinking

Sept. 2011:  Top LEED City Gets Greener

Aug 2011: Get Your Energy Efficiency Grant Before Competition Heats Up; Lighting Tips

July 2011: What is Demand Response? NYC Local Law 84, NY Energy Award

June 2011: Is Your E-Waste Being Properly Recycled? Building Sustainability Through Tenants, Speak Green, Sustainable Nature

May 2011: 25-Year Energy Outlook, Waste and Recycling Case Studies, New LEED Building, PlaNYC Update, New Ordinance in San Francisco.

April 2011: Electric Cars, Giant Recyclable Structure - How did your workplace mark Earth Day?

March 2011: Held Hostage By Your Recycling Rate? Save 80% on Waste Removal, NYC Benchmarking Deadline Extended, Recalculations Affect ENERGY STAR Scores.

February 2011: Free Benchmarking Helpline Launched to Help NYC Buildings Deal with New Law, Insider Knowledge About Composting, 2011 State of Green Business Report.

January 2011:  The year of benchmarking? New Metrics Features, Global Survey, Rechargeable Battery Recycling Law

December 2010:  Happy Green Holidays, Life Beyond LEED, Composting Case Study, New LEED Draft

November 2010: Sustainability Reporting Increasingly Important, Recycled Paper "Lake," Taking Green Overseas, Driving Sustainability Across Supply Chain Panel, C40 and CDP, Q&A

October 2010: Expo Recap, America Recycles Day, New NYC Water Saving Laws, NYC Green Infrastructure Plan, Congratulations to Vornado's New York Office, Blog Action Day for Water Awareness

September 2010:Urban Green Expo, Recycling Programs Expand in NYC, and more

July 2010:  NYSP21, download sustainability best practices and learn how to increase diversion ratios, and more

May/June 2010: New Metrics Feature, Green Workplaces in Demand, Locally Processed Waste and more

April 2010: Amazing Cardboard Tower, Free Guide to NYC Laws, Earth Day Report, and more

March 2010: New LEED certifications, Earth Hour, Assoc. of Energy Engineers Presentation

February 2010:  BOMA Energy Action Day, ISO 14001, NYC Building Codes

January 2010:  NYC Leaps into Bold Green Future, Office Composting 

December 2009:  EPA Video Contest, Holiday Office Tips, ABC-TV Recycling Program, Hunter College Students Take Sustainability Tour, and more

November 2009: New Recycling Rules in NY and SF, New Features in Sustainability Metrics, Green Building Sector Growth, and more.

October 2009: New COO, Legislative Overview, Green Leases, NYT reports on Energy Tracking System, and more

September 2009: Green Rooft Incentives, Great Forest Consultant Teaches Course at Hunter, Urban Green Expo, Office Composting, and more

August 2009:  EPA Portfolio Manager Changes, Speculation in Energy Marlets, and more

July 2009:  What Happens to Recyclables, New Climate Change Bill, Turning Green to Save Money, Try to New Metrics

June 2009: New Sustainability Metrics, Proposed NYC Laws, News from Great Forest

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The Waste Paper Newsletter published its final edition in March 2009. 

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The Waste Paper Newsletters 2009 

The Waste Paper Newsletters 2008

The Waste Paper Newsletters 2007

The Waste Paper Newsletters 2006

Energy Newsletter Archive

The Energy Newsletter has been incorporated into our new Great Forest newsletter.  Access the archive of past issues here: