It’s a new year! As everyone is setting their goals for 2022, here are a few sustainable New Year’s resolutions that can help you make an impact on the environment! 1. Bring reusable bags on errands Plastic bags are convenient, however their convenience is costly to the environment. They are difficult to recycle and are
By Shelby Kuenzli, Digital Marketing EcoFellow, updated by EcoFellows Fatin Chowdhury and Cassie Rogers What is EcoBuilding Bargains? The Center for EcoTechnology is proud to say that we have successfully been making green make sense for the past 45 years. One of the many ways in which we make an impact is by operating our
By: Shelby Kuenzli, Marketing EcoFellow The spring 2018 Reuse Rockstar competition put on by EcoBuilding Bargains, our building materials reuse store, has come to a close. Reuse Rockstar is a friendly, bi-annual competition that highlights customers who have upcycled, transformed or repurposed items from EcoBuilding Bargains into creative and functioning pieces. This year, we decided
By Shelby Kuenzli, Digital Marketing EcoFellow The Spring 2018 Reuse Rockstar Competition has come to a close. Thank you to all who submitted entries and voted on the winner! This competition highlights some of the ingenious projects our customers make with materials from EcoBuilding Bargains. There were many creative entries, totaling 17 unique projects, all of
The GREEN TEAM is a joint program of the Center for EcoTechnology and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) that empowers students and teachers to help the environment through waste reduction, recycling, composting, energy conservation, and pollution prevention. The GREEN TEAM recently released an instructional video on source separation in school cafeterias. Source separation