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 
Justin Manger 
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No Comments »365 Straight Days of Posts
January 8th, 2011 Justin Manger As anyone who’s written a blog knows, consistency – in addition to quality and/or content and topic – is the key to building an audience. Today, 2nd Green Revolution reaches a new milestone: 1 year straight of having at least one post up every single day. This is something in which we take pride, especially [...]
Five Friday Facts: Incredible Population Statistics
January 7th, 2011 Justin Manger By 2045, global population is projected to reach 9 billion. It is currently nearing 7 billion. It took humans millions of years to reach 1 billion people in population. The 1 billion threshold was reached in 1800. It took the next 130 years to reach 2 billion (1930), 30 years to reach 3 billion (1960), [...]
Posted in Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Policy, Sustainability Tags: Population Growth No Comments »Secret Science Project in Abu Dhabi Makes it Rain in the Desert. Really?
January 7th, 2011 Justin Manger Call me a skeptic. The Chinese tried to make it rain to wash away pollution before the 2008 Olympics. Native Americans have their rain dances. Scientists in Abu Dhabi have their ionisers. According to this Daily Mail article, “scientists employed by the ruler of Abu Dhabi claim to have generated a series of downpours. Fifty rainstorms [...]
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 »In Nod to Energy Efficiency IKEA Stops Selling Incandescent Light Bulbs
January 5th, 2011 Justin Manger In order to get a head start on federal legislation that would mandate more efficient light bulbs like LEDs and fluorescents starting in 2012, IKEA has already decided not to stock or sell the incandescent bulb invented by Thomas Edison over a century ago. IKEA, a Swedish home furnishings store, has over 300 stores in 37 countries. [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Green Products, Justin Manger Tags: Energy Conservation, Green Product, IKEA No Comments »Green Apartments Survey
January 4th, 2011 Justin Manger Are apartment owners and property managers adopting green retrofits? The following 7 question survey is from Property Management Software Guide. They created it to learn what progress is being made toward greening apartments in the multifamily housing market, which make up 20% of all US households. Multi-family structures such as apartment buildings, condos, and townhouses [...]
Infographic: The Internet and the Environment
December 30th, 2010 Justin Manger Most of us are online a lot these days. Not only is the digitization of communication, work, and play convenient and relatively cheap, it has had a profound impact on the “brick and mortar” world. Take the publishing industry, for example. Aside from the personal preferences that go along with reading real ink on paper [...]
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 »DC’s Streetcar Debate Should End. Construct the Line.
December 26th, 2010 Justin Manger There has been a lot of debate surrounding the idea of building a streetcar line from Chinatown going east along the H Street corridor in Washington, D.C. I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Chinatown is already a vibrant and exciting part of the city and is not too far from The Atlas [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Featured Posts, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Policy, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: Trains, Washington DC 2 Comments »
