With the end of 2010, 2nd Green Revolution’s virtual stock game we set up for readers interested in flexing their green stock picking muscle also came to a close. Jason W led for nearly the entire 5 months, winning the competition with an 11% return. Jason’s portfolio was a well-rounded group of companies including Central [...]
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2nd Green Revolution’s Stock Market Game Winner: Congratulations Jason W
January 10th, 2011 
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No Comments »Design a Bioplastics Logo for Cereplast and Get $25,000
January 6th, 2011 Justin Manger Bioplastics is an up and coming industry filled with start-ups trying to make the big breakthrough that will eliminate petroleum based plastics and make its inventors rich. Cereplast Inc.(CERP on NASDAQ) of El Segundo, CA is looking to make its mark using plant inputs such as corn, wheat, potatoes, and tapioca. But the “mark” may be [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Green Economy, Green Products, Justin Manger, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Composting, Green Product No Comments »Peace on Earth?
December 28th, 2010 Justin Manger With the holiday season comes reflection: year end lists and rankings of what transpired in 2010, personal reflection about what went well and what didn’t over the year, and more broad assessments of what happened internationally and how we are coming along as a global society. One statistic, provided by the always interesting Democratic Leadership [...]
Posted in Behavior, Education, Green Economy, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Policy, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: Climate Change, Water No Comments »A Quick Thought on Balance
December 21st, 2010 Justin Manger It’s nice to see continued focus in the media on the idea that business and environmentalism are compatible. It’s been a long time coming. It’s really the only way – given that our mostly free market system has been and continues to be the most accepted and successful model around the world – to make [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Behavior, Business, Economics, Green Economy, Justin Manger, Policy, Sustainability Tags: 2nd Green Revolution, Environment, Regenerative Economy No Comments »Five Friday Facts: U.S. Science and Technological Leadership at Risk
December 10th, 2010 Justin Manger • In 2009, 51% of U.S. patents were awarded to non-U.S. companies. China has gone from 15th place to 5th in international patents. • The World Economic Forum ranks the U.S. 48th in quality of mathematics and science education. Source: Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited, 2010 • In less than 15 years, China has [...]
Green Kids, Health, and Economics
December 7th, 2010 Guest Author The following post is from Malcolm Bill. He is an Australian freelance writer and journalist. He writes extensively in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the US. He’s published more than 500 articles about various topics, including Washing Machines and Refrigerators It’s an interesting fact that the green concepts which started as a sort of lifestyle protest have become [...]
Posted in Green Economy, Green Products, Guest Authors Tags: Chemicals, Food, Organic, Science No Comments »New Mexico Regulators Approve Plan to Cap Gas Emissions
December 7th, 2010 Justin Manger Just after California completed its first cap and trade deal, New Mexico seems ready to be one of the next state’s to act in place of the federal government. News has broken that regulators in the state have decided to approve a proposal for capping greenhouse gas emissions statewide. The Environmental Improvement Board voted 4-1 [...]
Our Generation’s Sputnik
November 29th, 2010 Justin Manger Procrastination has gotten me again. The title to this post has been marinating for a couple months now, waiting for 30 minutes of inspired writing to give form to the thought that an awful lot is riding on this shift to cleaner energy. Well, it looks like Department of Energy Secretary Chu has beaten me [...]
The 2010 Elections and US Energy Policy: Finding Common Ground
November 6th, 2010 Eric Wilson After the self described “shellacking” that President Obama and the Democratic party undertook, what are the implications for the United States’ energy policy? As reported on National Public Radio, the President stated that he foresees working with the Republicans to make “modest forward movement on energy policy.” Throughout the previous decade, the Republicans were the [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Economy, Op-Ed, Policy, President Obama Tags: Congress, Energy, Green Jobs, Jobs, Rare Earths, Washington DC No Comments »Californians Keep Emissions Curbs on Track with “No” on Proposition 23
November 5th, 2010 Justin Manger Californians voted to keep the Global Warming Solutions Act in place on Tuesday, one of many little talked about state ballots measures that were up for a vote in different areas of the country. The act (Assembly Bill 32 or AB32) was passed in 2006 and aims to cut the state’s industrial CO2 emissions to [...]
