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• Lessons From The World's Trash, PDF, FMJ, March/April 2023
• CRE 'Overpaying' to Send Waste to Landfills, PDF, Globest, Nov 15, 2022
• Largest Study of Global Commercial Building Waste Reveals 62% of “trash” is NOT trash, AP, Yahoo, Nov. 10, 2022
• Follow the Blueprint: Compliance for Sustainability Success, IFMJ, July/Aug 2022 (download pdf)
• Bronx development aims to turn trash into cash, April 18, 2022
• 2020 Year in Review: TRUE, Feb. 2020
• Getting To The Bottom Of Waste, FMJ Magazine, May/June 2020 (download pdf)
• Food Waste Audits Help Restaurants Fight Waste and Hunger, QSR magazine, Nov. 2019
• What’s In Your WasteStream?, NYSAR3 Fall 2019 Newsletter
• New Data – Who Dis? What Data Collection Can Do for You, Waste 360 NothingWasted! podcast
• Top tweets from Waste Expo 2019, Waste360, May 10, 2019
• Pedaling Her Way to Composting and Recycling Success with Sarah Womer, Founder of Zero to Go & Sustainability Consultant at Great Forest, Nothing Wasted Podcast, May 6, 2019
• Looking To Go Green? Here’s How It Can Work For Your Firm (pdf), Law 360, April 19, 2019
• Food Waste and the Waste Stream | How to Achieve Zero Waste, Planet Bonehead, March 11, 2019
• Understanding the Waste Stream | Zero Waste and Green Tech, Fuelblue podcast, March 13, 2019
• How a Waste Audit Can Help Save Your Business Money, The Balance Small Business, Feb. 27, 2019
• New York’s package free shop leads the way in quest for zero waste, XinHua News Agency, Feb 22, 2019.
• How important are waste audits? San Francisco’s mandate speaks volumes, Waste Dive, Jan 23, 2019
• 3 Big Sustainability Issues Facing Every Business, and How to Respond, Environmental Leader, Dec. 3, 2018
• How Carbon Footprint Accounting & Reporting Benefits SMBs: Experts Weigh In, Environmental Leader, Dec. 10, 2018
• How to Plan a Waste Audit, Dumpsters.com, May 23, 2018
• Case Study: Daylight Hour Adds Up For Easy Energy Savings Boost At Great Forest, BeEx Insight, June 26, 2017
• How Facilities Management Can Learn To Attract Top Talent, Control Your Building, June 19, 2017
• New York Hotels Take a Green Turn, Gourmet Traveller, May 2017,
• Case Study: Great Forest and Enevo, May 4, 2017
• Enevo Teams Up With Great Forest To Deliver Greater Value To Clients, May 4, 2017
• How The Peninsula New York Topped the Hotel Category in the Zero Waste Challenge, (pdf) Green Lodging News, Sept. 30, 2016
• Mayor de Blasio’s Zero Waste Challenge Wraps Up With Thousands Of Tons Of Waste Diverted From Landfill and Incineration, July 11, 2016
• Brown Agenda Cuts Lead from Poor Kids, Huffington Post, March 3, 2016
• Modular Phones, E-Waste, And The Shift Towards Sustainable Electronics, Curbed, Jan. 19, 2016
• Is America Recycles Day Obsolete?, Triple Pundit, Nov. 17, 2015
• Seven New York City Hotels Honored For Sustainable Hospitality Initiatives, Nov. 9, 2015
• Talkin’ Trash: Quotes from DSNY, Great Forest, EPA, and more, Oct 16., 2015
•  The Unbearable Inevitability Of Recycling: A Response To John Tierney, Waste Dive, October 14, 2015
• The How And Why Of Waste Audits, USGBC, August 31, 2015
• Single-Stream Recycling: Simple for Residents, Complex for the City, City Limits, May 20, 2015
• Great Forest Partners With Keep America Beautiful On New Study That Reveals What Works In Workplace Recycling ,  April 28, 2015
• How Green Are NYC Hotels? Ten Things We Learned from the HANYC Sustainability Awards, Green Lodging News, Feb. 17, 2015
• New law requires New Yorkers to recycle e-waste or face fines, Global Business America, CCTV America, Jan. 8, 2015
• Headless Pineapples, Paper Hats and More Small Ways Hotels Go Green, SKIFT, Nov. 12, 2014
• Waldorf Astoria, Hilton Midtown, Carlton Hotels Honored by HANYC for Their Green Initiatives, Press Release, Nov. 11, 2014
• Waldorf Astoria, Hilton Midtown, Carlton Hotels Honored by HANYC for Their Green Initiatives, Green Lodging news, Nov. 11, 2014
• The Chemical Weapons Ukrainian Separatists Didn’t Get, Businessweek, Sept. 15, 2014
• How Lunch Led to a Green Revolution, BBC, June 17, 2014
• Going Back to Basics Leads to Better Waste Management, Insider Knowledge Report, Environmental Leader, May 2014
• Wyndham New Yorker Hotel Recommits Itself to Green Efforts, Green Lodging News, May 22, 2014
• Countdown To Earth Day: There’s Still Time To Take Action, Media Post Marketing Green, April 4, 2014
• Earth Day Events Organized Worldwide: Four Examples, Environmental Leader, March 25, 2014
• Composting for Businesses and Organizations, Environmental Leader, November 7, 2013
• Implementing a Centralized Recycling Collection System, 2013 Insider Knowledge Report, Pg 123, Environmental Leader, Jan 2013
• How To Make Your Company More Green, The Business Journals, Jan. 24, 2013
• 8 Tips to Fast-Track LEED for Existing Buildings, Buildings magazine, November 20, 2012
• 10 Steps to An Effective Office Recycling Challenge, Environmental Leader, June 26, 2012
• Recycling Competition ,  Page 71, Environmental Leader’s 2012 Insider Knowledge Report (full 2012 report pdf)
• Great Forest Partners with CRedit360 to Offer Access to Sophisticated Data Platform, Jan. 2012
• Get The Message With Big Green Statements, Environmental Leader, Oct. 12, 2011
• Does Your Diversion Rate Really Affect Your Recycling Efforts?, Environmental Leader, March 14, 2011
• Power Surge for Biz, Crain’s New York Business, March 7, 2011
• Composting in Urban Areas, Page 60, Environmental Leader’s 2011 Insider Knowledge Report (full 2011 report pdf)
• Using LEED as the Starting Point for Greater Sustainability, Greenbiz.com, December 2010
• Great Forest Sustainability Metrics Offers Snapshots of Sustainability, August, 2009
• Gioia Lays Out Plans, But Not Dollars (Yet) for Carbon-Neutral Campaign, City Hall News, April 27, 2009
• Earth Day 2009:  Great Forest on Recycling, Fox News, April 2009
• Met Life Building is First in NYC to Achieve LEED-EB:O&M, Feb. 2009
• Breakthrough Solutions for One of Earth’s Biggest Challenges: An Interview with Great Forest’s Richard Fuller, Idea Connection, Jan. 27, 2009
• NYC’s Historic Hotel Penn Earns ENERGY STAR, Jan. 20, 2009
• The Renovation of LEED-EB, Greener Buildings, July 3, 2008
• How Green Are We?, Time Out New York, July 5, 2007
• Try Ending Free Pick Up of Trash, New York Times, April 2003
• Where Mob Ruled Business Steps In, New York Times, August 12, 2001
• Yorktown Saves $1M with Garbage Contract, North County News, October 12, 1999
• Yorktown Shows the Way to Reduce Garbage Costs Through Competition, The Journal News, October 5, 1999
• Yorktown Garbage Deal Brings $1 Million Saving to Town,The Journal News, October 5, 1999
• Law makers mull regulations on garbage haulers, December 07, 1998
• Trash Costs Climb as Carters Recoup Price War Losses, Crains, June 22, 1998
• Gas Market’s Promise is Hot Air to Small Firms, Crains, May 4, 1998
• Deregulation Loosens up the Job Market, Too, Crains, May 4, 1998
• “Get Involved” is Message at BOMA Codes and Regs Update, Real Estate Weekly, October 20, 1996
• Recycling Saves $130,000, Real Estate New York, December 1995
• Recycling Officials Threaten Fines, Westchester County Business Journal, October 6, 1995
• Recycling, Resource Recovery, Environmental Solutions, February 1995
• Mandates for Commercial Sector Recycling, BioCycle, December 1994
• Road to Clean Air, Facility Manager, July 1994
• NY Trash Compaction: Carters Rush to Merge, Crains, May 23, 1994
• Recycling Other People’s Waste is the Basis of His Success, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 5, 1994
• Firm Tries Taming NY’s Recycling Jungle, Crains, August 16, 1993
• On-site Commercial Recycling the Law, Real Estate Weekly, July 14, 1993
• City Recycling Mandate Gets Mixed Reviews from Industry, Better Buildings, July 1993
• Harvesting the Urban Forest and Five Common Misconceptions About Recycling, Skylines, July 1993
• Environmentalism Meets Real Estate, Real Estate Weekly, July 14, 1993
• Court Strikes Down New York City Garbage Rates, New York Times, January 19, 1992
• Law Asks Firms to Take Stock of Trash, Crains, July 22, 1991
• Question of the month, New York Real Estate Journal, June 1991
• Business Recycling Ef fort Underway Despite Griping, Crains, June 10, 1991
• Recycling in Commercial Buildings, BOMANY, May 9, 1991
• Businesses Turn to Recycling and Find It’s Good Business, New York Times, April 22, 1991
• Recycling Programs Address the Handling of Building Trash,  Real Estate Forum, December 10, 1990