I recently had the opportunity to take two tours of 1536 Wynkoop St in the Lower Downtown section of Denver. A hundred year old brick building that began as a warehouse, the structure is now home to some 38 non-profit organizations and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado. According to the tour guide, the building was [...]
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Site Visit: Alliance for Sustainable Colorado
March 23rd, 2011 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Building, Site Visits, Sustainability 
Tags: AASHE, Biomimicry, Bus, Chemicals, Colorado, Denver, Interface, LEED, Trains, Water, Water Conservation 
No Comments »Ski Industry Develops Alternative Energy for Survival
March 20th, 2011 Guest Author Hunter Sykes is a sustainability consultant with Coldstream Sustainability Group, a 20-year ski industry veteran and the director of the film: Resorting to Madness: Taking Back Our Mountain Communities. He holds an MA in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. If you are a skier or boarder, have you ever thought [...]
Carbon Offsets: The Debate Continues
March 17th, 2011 2nd Green Revolution Carbon offsetting is an area of the green economy that has been in the news for sometime now. Economii.com states that “Carbon offsets are used to reduce the amount of carbon that an individual or institution emits into the atmosphere. Carbon offsets work in a financial system where, instead of reducing its own carbon use, [...]
The Double Edged Sword of Growth and Development
March 14th, 2011 2nd Green Revolution A few months back our Five Friday Facts came by way of a 60 Minutes story on Brazil (see the video clip below). Many of the facts touted Brazil’s progress in the area of clean energy. One that did not make the cut was the following fact, “Ninety percent of the roads in the country are still [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Behavior, China, Conservation, Economics, Education, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Economy, Justin Manger, Policy, Real Estate, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: 2nd Green Revolution, Africa, Brazil, David Orr, Denver, Environment, Opinionator, Pollution, Public Transit, Smart Growth 1 Comment »The Future of Coal
March 13th, 2011 Chris DeArmond Environmentalists and a handful of politicians have dreamed of a day when coal power plants are shut down and supplanted by renewable energy sources. However, even though renewable energy is on the rise, coal will likely continue to be a significant part of the world’s energy supply for decades to come. This is especially true [...]
Posted in Behavior, Clean Technology, Conservation, Guest Authors Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Chris DeArmond, Coal, Electricity Generation No Comments »Toward a New Set of Three “R”s
March 10th, 2011 Eric Wilson I’ve been thinking about this for a long time now. Reduce, reuse, recycle is a fantastic approach to conservation and economic restraint. While I still find value in these, I want to put forth a few more options. The first set of words below are grouped together as a new set of three, but in [...]
The Biomimetic City and Sustainability
March 6th, 2011 Phil Sauve “After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.” -Janine Benyus, co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute and founder of the Biomimicry Guild. Our current world is dangerously unsustainable. Greenhouse gas levels are reaching dangerous tipping points, climate change is a reality, freshwater shortages are [...]
Growing Popularity in Refurbished Cell Phones
February 28th, 2011 Chris DeArmond Several months ago, 2nd Green Revolution ran a piece on “urban mining” in Japan, which described the country’s efforts to recycle metals found in many discarded electronics. I was reminded of it recently while reading a story on companies selling refurbished phones in the Wall Street Journal (“Entrepreneurs Find Gold in Used Phones”). While the [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Featured Posts, Green Economy, Green Products, Recylcing Tags: Battery, Chris DeArmond, E-waste, Green Product No Comments »
