Company In the early 1990s, prior to the craft beer revolution, the only beers I was used to seeing at family functions were Heineken, Amstel Light, MGD and Coors Light. However, that all changed on a trip to California to visit relatives in the early 90s. My uncle, an early proponent of craft beer, had [...]
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Sierra Nevada – Solar Innovators
June 16th, 2013 
Mac Maloney 
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Revolutionary Spirits, Uncategorized 
Tags: Beer, Mac Maloney, Sierra Nevada 
No Comments »Hopworks Urban Brewery
June 2nd, 2013 Mac Maloney Big thanks to Jake from DC Homebrewers for the draft can! Company Portland, Oregon has more breweries/brewpubs than any city in the world, totaling close to 50. Therefore, within that sphere, it is difficult to differentiate yourself from the pack. One way in doing so is to have a mission statement, like Hopworks Urban Brewery. [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, Revolutionary Spirits, Uncategorized Tags: Beer, Hopworks, Mac Maloney No Comments »Long Trail Brewing Co.
May 5th, 2013 Mac Maloney Company Long Trail Brewing Co. might not be the first name you think of when it comes to Vermont craft breweries, as others have more widespread distribution (Magic Hat) or craft cache (Hill Farmstead). However, the brewery is one of the State’s oldest craft breweries, designing microbrews since 1989. After outgrowing their initial space and [...]
Posted in Business, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Revolutionary Spirits, Sustainability, Uncategorized Tags: Beer, Mac Maloney No Comments »May 2013 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
May 1st, 2013 Eric Wilson 
The snow has finally melted in Minnesota (though another round of flurries falls as I post this). Nothing signifies spring in the sustainability world quite like the season’s first Tour de Fat. In Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, New Belgium’s annual celebration of bicycles returns after its winter hiatus. Today and tomorrow an exciting event is taking [...]
Posted in Conferences, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson Tags: Atlanta, Calendar, California, Minnesota, New Belgium Brewery, Noelle Phares, Santa Barbara, Stephen Chu No Comments »How to Make Great, Green Cities: People, Water, and Streets
April 21st, 2013 Stephen Wade 
What does it mean to be green? In the modern era, its meaning has evolved from Rachel Carson’s documentation of pollution in Silent Spring, Teddy Roosevelt and and John Muir’s founding of the National Parks, and Henry David Thoreau’s solitary musings in Walden to a more complex, integrated, consumption-based, and urban meaning exhibited by Al [...]
2014 Vehicle Technologies Budget Centers on Developing Hybrids and EVs
April 18th, 2013 Chris DeArmond 
The 2014 Vehicle Technologies budget proposal, submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), requests $240 million to support R&D efforts for batteries and electric drive technology. The allotment is a $30 million jump over the amount requested for fiscal year 2013, and hopefully will build on the program’s string of notable [...]
The Dishwasher: Kitchen Appliances Revisited
April 14th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
As a follow up to a recent post about toaster ovens and toasters, I’ve come across another troublesome kitchen appliance, the dishwasher. I love the dishwasher. Well, I love the idea of it; not when it comes to resource consumption (water, detergent, materials to build), but from a pure convenience standpoint. Here’s the problem, it [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed Tags: Tiny Homes, Water, Water Conservation No Comments »April 2013 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
April 4th, 2013 Eric Wilson Nothing conjures up the ideal life quite like Hawaii, which has the highest ranking in the most recent well-being index. Despite the erroneous name of the event (see below and let us know if you figure out what’s wrong with the name), Hawaii is hosting a sustainability in higher education summit this month. 2nd Green [...]
Posted in Conferences, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Building, Renewable Energy Tags: Calendar, California, Hawaii No Comments »New Hydrogen Catalyst May Finally Make Stored Renewable Energy A Reality
April 2nd, 2013 Luke Jackson A common tactic for those opposed to renewable energy is to remind everyone that solar panels don’t produce energy when the sun is down, and wind turbines don’t produce energy when the wind isn’t blowing. Certainly, this is true – meaning there will need to be backup plans to generate energy when renewables are not [...]
Cheap Energy and the Future of Renewables
March 31st, 2013 Eric Wilson 
I recently read Alan Weisman’s Gaviotas on the bus. Numerous tweets resulted from the first few chapters and now this post. Weisman relates the story of how the 1973 oil embargo and ensuing energy crisis played a crucial role in the attention heaped upon Gaviotas, a settlement in the llanos (savannah) of Colombia. The town [...]
