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News Roundup! How does the technology we use change the way we’re reading? This article behind Scientific American’s tweet last Friday reports that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages over increasingly prevalent e-readers and tablets. Understanding how reading on paper is different from reading on screens requires some explanation of how the brain interprets written language. The human brain develops specialized circuits or regions for object recognition, including text. The edges, corners and physicality of paper text have a more obvious topography than onscreen text: that is, all of those tangible features of paper text make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text. In contrast, most screens interfere with intuitive navigation of text and inhibit people from mapping the reading journey in their minds. For this reason, engineers and designers will continue to make reading on an e-reader as close to reading on paper as possible. Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, has begun ranking its suppliers on sustainability. Since launching a sustainability program in 2006, the retail giant has reduced energy consumption in its stores, added solar panels, curbed emissions and recycled millions of tons of trash. Now, Walmart is looking to extend its operation with a supplier sustainability index. The corporation will create a competitive sustainability ranking for many of the 150,000 products sold in its stores. As always with Walmart, the opportunity is to drive change at scale. If all goes according to plan, it could change the way all kinds of consumer products – clothes, toys, electronics and beverages – are made. If you’re planning a summer get-away, there are increasingly more options for green travel without sacrificing the luxuries or comforts you hope to have. Thankfully, this list of green vacation spots will help make all our travels as green as possible. From exploring the eco-tourism in Madagascar to basking in the geothermal energy of Iceland’s spas, these locations are completely powered by renewable energy and can help you get off the power grid while you’re off the grid. In recycling news, the United States EPA has reevaluated existing regulations to permit the recycling of plastic scrap containing levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) less than 50 parts per million. PCB production has been banned in the United States since 1979 due to is links to cancer and other toxic effects. This new interpretation allows more plastics to be recycled while continuing to prevent dangerous levels of PCBs from entering the environment. According to the Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, 1 million to 2 million tons of plastic are generated annually, most of which could be separated and recycled.

How Green Gaming Can Improve Sustainability Performance Competition. Progress. Achievement. These are all good measures for today’s corporate sustainability initiatives, but did you know these are also natural desires that are fulfilled by some of the most successful games? MORE...