DNC Green Report Card
By Jerd Smith, Rocky Mountain News
Published August 27, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
Updated August 27, 2008 at 1:23 a.m.
HITS AND MISSES
On Target: Denver's DNC Host Committee bought thousands of note pads and other office products from Staples made from at least 50 percent consumer waste. Instead of using a paper catalog to order from, workers were directed to a special online green shopping list, slashing paper use and helping ensure more products are Earth-friendly.
Off Target: Because of security concerns, credentialed bike riders are turned away from the Pepsi Center security perimeter at Speer Boulevard and Auraria Parkway. Bikes must be parked east of Speer, reducing the incentive to use bikes to access convention activities.
Jerd Smith
KEY TO THE FUTURE
70,000 Number of biodegradable key cards a Boulder company has donated to DNC hotels this week.
Sustainable Cards is debuting the harvested wood key cards as an alternative to the traditional plastic ones. The cards have been used in Europe for a decade, but are new to America.
If the U.S. hotel and resort industry switched to biodegradable cards, 1,300 tons of waste could be averted annually, according to the company.
Daily Camera
CONFUSING. BUT GREEN.
More than 100 experts in the energy and climate-exchange field swapped big thoughts at the Space Theater at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday.
Among the luminaries were Mike Kaplan, president of Aspen Skiing Company, and Dan Reicher, director of energy and climate for Google.
To save resources, organizers decided not to print program schedules.
No paper programs. Now that's green.
Confusing. But green.
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