Earlier this month Ernst & Young and GreenBiz Group released a new study, entitled ‘2013 Six Growing Trends in Corporate Sustainability.’ Based primarily on a survey of the GreenBiz Intelligence Panel of executives and thought leaders engaged in sustainability, this study reveals that “companies are increasingly connecting the dots between risk management and sustainability by making [...]

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Raz Godelnik, the co-founder of Eco-Libris and an adjunct faculty at the University of Delaware’s Business School, wrote a blog post for Triple Pundit that explores why sustainable topics are sometimes ho-hum. “While it would be hard to guess what specifically makes you excited, it’s probably not a sustainable product, brand or culture phenomenon,” he writes. Godelnik [...]

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A new report from the Pacific Institute (http://www.pacinst.org), “Sustainable Water Jobs: A National Assessment of Water-Related Green Jobs” identifies “136 different kinds of jobs involved in implementing sustainable water strategies, from plumbers to landscapers, engineers to water irrigation specialists.” Enhancing the sustainability of U.S. water resources is an increasingly pressing challenge facing urban, suburban and [...]

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Trout Headwaters is proud of our team’s unwavering commitment to the conservation and protection of our precious natural resources at all levels of its operations.  Each year we strive to lower our carbon footprint and boost biodiversity with a keen awareness of the importance of environmental stewardship in today’s world. For nearly 20 years our [...]

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Conservation Magazine recently reported that a new study has confirmed what you’ve probably suspected for awhile: Spending time in nature without computers, phones, and other electronic devices makes people more creative. The study published in PLoS ONE and called, “Creativity in the wild: Improving creative reasoning through immersion in natural settings” followed 56 people as they [...]

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TroutHeads are part of an elite group dedicated to preserving and protecting our freshwater resources and finned friends.  We’ve come up with 5 Go-Blu Resolutions you may want to consider for 2013. For more ideas visit http://www.troutheads.org TroutHeads.org. 1.    Eliminate plastic water bottles from your life with the EcoBlu Eco-Water Bottle. Did you know it [...]

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Trout Headwaters, Inc. (THI) has now completely moved to 100-percent clean and renewable energy to power our Paradise Valley, Mont. headquarters. This switch to renewable wind and solar energy was surprisingly simple. Besides installing a roof-top solar panel system, THI opted for green wind energy produced at wind farms in the Great Plains, and purchased [...]

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The Times-Standard reports that tensions are still high over stream restoration work underway on the Trinity River in California.  Fishing guides and landowners are not sold on the work to date by the Trinity River Restoration Program, and want the Trinity Management Council to hold off on additional work until the project effects can be [...]

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Fishing guides float and fish our nation’s rivers every day. Because of their familiarity and concern for the resources they fish, guides are often able to spot early problems with stream and river health. It’s unfortunate that a notable number of poorly designed stream restoration projects can actually cause greater harm to an already compromised [...]

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7x3bgYWhYs&w=425&h=349] The health of the Chesapeake Bay is a big deal.  According to one recent estimate, it could be as much as a trillion-dollar deal.  As the Bay’s water quality continues to be negatively impacted by polluted runoff, its 150-year-old crab, oyster and fishing industries have nearly collapsed.  Blue crab and oyster harvests are [...]

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