Much as was the case with this time last year, there seem to be fewer conferences on the topics of sustainability and clean energy during the month of December, especially toward the end of the month. Whether it’s the cold temperatures, the holiday season in much of the western world, or fatigue, most of the [...]
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December Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
December 2nd, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Clean Technology, Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Sustainable Development 
Tags: Africa, Calendar, Colorado, Lifecycle, Wind Power 
No Comments »Junkestra: Cleverly Creating Music with Trash from the Dump
August 4th, 2010 Justin Manger Think about what you hear at the landfill or dump near you: the beeping of trucks backing up, hydraulic lifts, seagulls or other birds squawking and circling above, and the overall cacophonous mix of machines sorting and burying our garbage. Classical music, it’s safe to say, does not make the typical list. A San Francisco [...]
Posted in Conservation, Green Products, Justin Manger, Recylcing Tags: Green Product, Landfill, Lifecycle, Waste No Comments »May 2010 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
May 3rd, 2010 Eric Wilson On or around the first of every month, 2nd Green Revolution updates the green events calendar for the coming month. Last November we began including a post highlighting some of the intriguing events for that month. Unlike past months where many of the events on the calendar take place abroad, May showcases numerous conferences, workshops, [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability Tags: Calendar, Clean Energy, Lifecycle, New Urbanism, New York City, NYC Green Buildings No Comments »The Footprint Chronicles: Where Has Your Jacket Been?
February 25th, 2010 Eric Wilson Earlier this month on Public Radio International’s daily program The World, reporter Murray Carpenter highlighted “some of the new technologies that help consumers trace the global journey of their purchases and calculate their environmental cost.” If companies are going to argue their products are truly green, there needs to be independent verification. Greenwashing (making specious [...]
Growing the Economy, But at What Cost?
February 15th, 2010 Justin Manger “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Ghandi What is growth? If one looks at an organism, growth requires inputs (food/energy, micro-nutrients, water, etc). For the economy to grow, massive inputs are also needed, mostly in the form of energy and materials. Currently, the major difference is that [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Behavior, Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Justin Manger Tags: 2nd Green Revolution, Cradle to Cradle, Lifecycle, Regenerative Economy No Comments »LEED-like Standards for Road Construction
January 25th, 2010 Eric Wilson Following on the heals of last week’s update about Solar Roadways comes news of an organization called Greenroads that hopes to bring US Green Building Council-like standards to road construction. The USGBC’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification represents an industry-wide set of standards for green building. Greenroads aims to develop a list [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Building, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: LEED, Lifecycle, Solar Roadways, USGBC No Comments »Life Cycle Assessment of LEDs Reveal Greater Energy Savings
December 12th, 2009 Eric Wilson A series of posts on 2nd Green Revolution have discussed Life Cycle Assessments (LCA). Companies ranging from New Belgium Brewery to Interface Inc. have generated these assessments for their products in order to determine the energy and material requirements to create, manufacture, and dispose of their goods. As the name implies, LCA considers all inputs [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson Tags: Cradle to Cradle, Interface, LED Lights, Lifecycle, New Belgium Brewery No Comments »Interface Inc: Using Lifecycle Assessments to Measure Product Impacts
December 2nd, 2009 Eric Wilson Last Saturday’s post, the second written about Interface Inc.’s steps toward becoming a sustainable company, highlighted InterfaceRAISE. This is the third post detailing Interface’s sustainability measures focuses on lifecycle assessments and further details the path that Interface has blazed. One of Interface’s main goals is to become a regenerative business. In order to do so, [...]
