Here is a guest post from Rob Jones, chief blogger at flooring and building materials firm BuildDirect. Today, Rob talks about how the building materials industry is changing in the light of sustainable practices. To illustrate, he mentions a specific product that embodies this trend: interlocking deck tiles.In some ways, it's fair to say that the building materials industry is very traditionally-minded. But, with this sense of tradition comes the instinct to meet demand, even if it means examining the supply. That's a traditional business practice which is unlikely to change.But, this tren...
It's been exactly a year since Walmart's historic launch of a Sustainability Index and other measures to assess suppliers and products and, remarkably, the sun still rises in the East and sets in the West.As I stated in my analysis that day July ...
The Save the Beach Hotel in RomeWhile the oil spill continues to dominate the green blogosphere, one of the most interesting things I'm seeing this week is the relative quiet about tropical storm Bonnie heading right towards the central Gulf Coast....
In this day an age, smart businesses realize that good customer service is not just something you want to provide when problems arise for customers, but should be something that is a mainstay of a business BEFORE problems arise. Developing a posi...
