As we mentioned earlier this week, the 21st annual Solar Tour is taking place throughout the Washington DC area. This is one of several events in and around the nation’s capital. Check out the 2nd Green Revolution’s calendar for more information. The big annual event in the green building industry, Greenbuild, takes place early in [...]
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October 2011 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
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No Comments »Five Friday Facts: The Nature of Design
September 30th, 2011 Eric Wilson A friend recently lent me her copy of David Orr’s The Nature of Design. I read and reviewed his 1994 book, Earth in Mind several months back. In the first few chapters there were a number of interesting facts. I culled a few from Earth in Mind for a past Five Friday Facts and noted [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Coal, David Orr, Food, Population Growth, Science, Waste No Comments »EcoFreek, Your Search Engine for Reusing and Repurposing
September 27th, 2011 Eric Wilson In an attempt to broaden the reduce, recycle, reuse mantra, Ecofreek.com offers web denizens a portal to search for used items that are listed on the web. Numerous sites provide listings for free “stuff”, but sifting through all of them can be time consuming. Classifieds and Craigslist contain a wealth of gently used goods for [...]
Biomimicry Institute Announces Biomimicry 3.8
September 25th, 2011 Eric Wilson Starting with the release of her book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature in 1997, Janine Benyus has been building a following around the concept of biomimicry, or imitating nature. The book served as the foundation for the Biomimicry Guild the following year. In 2006, the Biomimicry Guild took hold with the vision to promote “learning [...]
Environmental Regulations, Public Health, and the Economy
September 22nd, 2011 Eric Wilson The first Five Friday Facts of the month centered on the economic impact of environmental regulations on the economy. If not for President Obama’s announcement earlier this month that the administration has withdrawn support for tighter regulations on smog and air pollution at the risk of harming economic growth, this would not be an issue. [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, President Obama Tags: Chemicals, Economy, Pollution, Quotations, Regenerative Economy No Comments »Toyota’s Prius Goes Plural
September 20th, 2011 Eric Wilson Back in January we wrote about the expansion of the Prius line and more recently about their imminent arrival in the US. Billboards and commercials (albeit slightly strange ones like the video below) have begun airing this past week with the tagline “The Prius Goes Plural.” In addition to this tagline/motto, the new Prius line [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Transportation Tags: Cars, Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrid, Prius, Video No Comments »Pollution in Production of Solar Panels an Issue at JinkoSolar Plant
September 19th, 2011 Eric Wilson Reports out of China indicate protestors are upset over pollution from a local solar panel manufacturer. The producer in question, JinkoSolar, has been accused of polluting a river as a result of runoff from the plant carrying waste laced with harmful chemicals. The New York Times reports that “residents claimed runoff from solid waste laced [...]
Posted in China, Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, News, Renewable Energy, Sustainability Tags: Chemicals, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Pollution, Solar Energy, Water 1 Comment »Bringing Electric Cars to the Public’s Consciousness
September 18th, 2011 Eric Wilson On several occasions I’ve written about the increasing visibility of electric vehicles. There was the post last fall about seeing three electric vehicles in one week and then a few months back there was the Chevy Volt plugged in at Canopy Airport Parking Lot. While laid up with a case of possible food poisoning, I [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Chevy Volt, Electric Vehicles, Tesla No Comments »
