One way to encourage progress on a goal like energy reduction is to have a competition. Many of these competitions take place in the education sector. The ongoing Green Cup Challenge is one example. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has organized a number of national competitions, including the Battle of the Buildings and [...]
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February 2012 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
February 1st, 2012 
Eric Wilson With an extra day this year, February gets its quadrennial opportunity to step up and fill its 29 days with as many events as possible. With that in mind, there are a number of domestic events jammed into February. These include two here in Denver, one of which I will attend at the end of [...]
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No Comments »BOULD Ideas, for an Unreasonable Venture
January 31st, 2012 Eric Wilson Perhaps one of the biggest knocks on green building, and LEED certification in particular, is that it is unattainable for so many. Despite costs that have dropped for sustainable materials, the extra costs associated with achieving LEED certification can be a financial barrier to building green homes and structures. Some see green building as elitist [...]
Poll: What is your McDonald’s Moment?
January 30th, 2012 Eric Wilson In yesterday’s op-ed I referenced Justin’s “McDonald’s moment.” When he was 12 years-old, he wrote a letter to the company inquiring about their Styrofoam packaging. This is not to be confused with the restaurant’s ill-fated foray into social media. Yesterday’s post recounted the effect growing up in LA had on me and how I came [...]
Growing Up in LA
January 29th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few weeks ago I was talking with another transplant from Los Angeles who also became interested in environmental sustainability. She asked what it was that got me interested in the topic. I told her that I never was big on going outside – not like I am now at least. I’ve hypothesized before on [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Environment, Los Angeles, Prius, Tesla 1 Comment »2012 Green Cup Challenge is Underway
January 28th, 2012 Eric Wilson From January 18th to February 15th, 116 schools throughout the country will compete to reduce electricity usage at their schools by taking part in the 2012 national Green Cup Challenge® (GCC). This year marks the 5th rendition of the project. Click here for information on the 2010 version. Sponsored by the Green Schools Alliance (GSA), [...]
Five Friday Facts: Industrial Waste
January 27th, 2012 Eric Wilson As a follow up to yesterday’s post detailing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) most recent Toxics report, comes today’s Five Friday Facts. The EPA compared many of the 2010 figures to 2000. The facts below come from Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins (the latter two are co-founders of the Rocky [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Recylcing Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Chemicals, EPA, Landfill, Natural Capitalism, New York City, RMI, Waste, Wastewater No Comments »Obama Returns to Energy Theme in State of the Union
January 26th, 2012 2nd Green Revolution As he has done previously in talking about the state of America, President Obama had several things to say about energy in Tuesday night’s speech (transcript here). For one, due to a surge in domestic oil production, imports of foreign oil have fallen to the lowest levels in 16 years and “American oil production is the highest that [...]
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