A recent report measured American “Green Jobs” for the first time. Perhaps no place in the U.S. was hit as hard by the economy of the past several years than Detroit. The Motor City has seen a decline for quite some time, but later this month there is a conference focused on green jobs in [...]
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May 2012 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
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No Comments »Movie Review: Fresh
April 30th, 2012 Eric Wilson The other day I attended a showing of the documentary “Fresh”, directed by Ana Sofia Joanes, organized by Chipotle Mexican Grill, the locally-grown restaurant known for its burritos made with sustainable ingredients. At 72 minutes, the documentary focuses on people working to make a more sustainable food system. Kelly Smith, a marketing strategist for Chipotle, [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability Tags: Food, Michael Pollan, Movie Review, Organic, Video, Waste No Comments »75 Percent Recycling Rate at 2012 Consumer Electronics Show
April 26th, 2012 Chris DeArmond At the beginning of the year, I talked about some of the eco-friendly products that were featured at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). However, I didn’t go into great detail as to how sustainability was carried out as a major theme of the venue itself. Now that several months have passed since the event, [...]
Posted in Business, News, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Chris DeArmond, Video, Waste No Comments »REDD+: Beyond Carbon Credits; REDD＋:炭素クレジットを超えた利益を目指して
April 24th, 2012 Guest Author This post was written by Akane Hanai, a UN Volunteer working in Viet Nam on the UN-REDD Programme as a Programme Specialist with a Master of Arts in Environmental and Resource Policy from George Washington University. It’s been almost eight months since I got involved in the UN-REDD programme in Viet Nam. For my first post, [...]
Posted in Conservation, Guest Authors, News, Op-Ed, Policy, Sustainability Tags: Akane Hanai, Carbon Dioxide, Environment No Comments »Earth Day 2012
April 22nd, 2012 2nd Green Revolution Celebrating the 42nd Earth Day and 4.5 billion years of earth. Image from NASA Johnson Space Center
Hertz on Demand: Toward Sustainable Transportation
April 18th, 2012 Eric Wilson Can a rental car company really move society toward sustainable transport? Hertz on Demand, a car sharing service from the eponymous rental agency, believes they have devised a way to more appropriately share cars. Currently there are a wealth of these types of services. Occasional Car, eGo Car Share, and ZipCar are some of the [...]
What Does the Natural Gas Boom Mean for Sustainability?
April 15th, 2012 Eric Wilson Both NPR and the New York Times ran stories last week that highlighted the role of natural gas in the U.S. energy economy. NPR interviewed Amy Myers Jaffe, director of Rice University’s Baker Institute Energy Forum. Jaffe predicted that natural gas prices would remain low for the foreseeable future, specifically 5-10 years. The New York [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Biomimicry, Fracking, Natural Gas, Solar Energy, Wastewater No Comments »Weather Disasters Set Record for Costs in 2011
April 11th, 2012 Justin Manger 2011 saw a slew of natural disasters in the U.S. that brought a record of 14 separate weather events with costs exceeding $1 billion each. From hurricanes and floods, to heat waves and droughts, to tornado outbreaks and wildfires, it was a wild year for Mother Nature. There were over $46 billion in damages tallied [...]
EPA’s P3: Planet, Prosperity, People
April 7th, 2012 Eric Wilson In the vein of honesty, the three words under our logo, “People. Planet. Profit.” are not our own. John Elkington is credited with coining the phrase. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has swapped out “profit” for prosperity and rearranged the phrase, also known by the shortened “P3″. Under the umbrella of P3, EPA is running [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Eric Wilson, Green Products, Sustainability Tags: Calendar, Chemicals, Energy, EPA, Triple Bottom Line, Washington DC, Water No Comments »April 2012 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
March 31st, 2012 Eric Wilson When thinking about mining, sustainability is not the first word that comes to mind. For that very reason, the Sustainable Mining Conference in London presents an interesting notion. Can mining be sustainable? It would be hard to argue in favor since mining mostly procures minerals which do not regenerate in a human lifetime, making them [...]
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