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A Week in June: 12 Projects, 55 Tractor-Trailers, 10,501 Items, 15 Destinations

By Mark Lennon On June 26, 2018 · Add Comment
May and June are IRN’s busiest months.  On Monday, June 4 we kicked off a two-week project at Iowa State, loaded mattresses from Montclair State in New Jersey, and fired up two K-12 projects in Colorado.  By the end of the week we’d handled those and eight more projects:  corporate loadouts in California and Massachusetts, two more [...]
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Pepsico LOL

By Mark Lennon On June 11, 2018 · Add Comment
This isn’t really about Pepsico.  They’re just a nucleus around which to wrap a question, one I think about almost every day:  If a product doesn’t contribute to the sustainability of our species or culture, is there any meaning to making the product “sustainably”? Oct. 17, 2016 — PepsiCo, Inc. today announced an ambitious global sustainability agenda [...]
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To My Mom and All Moms on Mothers Day: Thank You !!!

By Mark Lennon On May 13, 2018 · Add Comment
I wrote this a couple of years ago, and I try to remember to put it up again every year at Mothers Day.  I know that Moms differ in their talents, and their caring, and their concern and involvement, but when Moms get it right, there are no better or more important people in the [...]
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Sustainability and Profit Collide in a Coffee Cup

By Mark Lennon On May 4, 2018 · Add Comment
I had the opportunity recently to attend a talk by the Chief Sustainability Officer from Keurig Green Mountain, the K-Cup company.  If you’re old enough and from New England, you’ll remember Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which was a smallish sort-of high-end coffee distributor in the 80s and 90s.  In 2000 they had $84 Million in [...]
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