Sungevity, the nation’s fastest growing provider of residential solar installations, today announced the launch of Sungevity.org as an innovative way to help schools and non-profit organizations raise money while getting more homeowners to put solar on their rooftops.
Americans do believe that environmental progress can be achieved together with job creation and economic growth. President Obama’s address identified Midwestern clean energy and high-speed rail development projects where this is already happening.
Senior business leaders, policymakers and clean energy thought leaders convened tyesterday for the first annual Clean Economy Summit, hosted by the Clean Economy Network Education Fund. The goal of the two-day conference is to produce a practical business and policy roadmap for achieving a clean economy and accelerating job creation in the United States.
A free online educational workshop for formal and informal educators, ocean explorers, scientists and other interested members of the public will be available from NOAA later this month. The course named “How Do We Explore?” is based on the voyages of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, which most recently completed a joint expedition with an Indonesian [...]
Babson College’s Mark Donohue, Clean Technology Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Mary Gentile, director of the business curriculum Giving Voice to Values and Babson Senior Research Scholar, and Mark Albion, who served as Babson’s first director of the Lewis Initiative, are among the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior in 2010.
According to opponents of the project, locating the proposed Sanderson Farms chicken slaughterhouse in Nash County likely will make it more difficult for the area to continue to grow and recruit cleaner, greener industries. Current law imposes fixed caps or limits on the amount of nutrients in the Tar-Pamlico and Neuse River Basins.
The winners of the Ocean 2030 contest were announced at the National Council for Science and the Environment’s conference, Our Changing Oceans, in Washington, DC this week. Ocean 2030 is a multimedia – photo, video, and art – contest that provided a forum for youth to share their vision for our oceans over the next [...]
Green Education Foundation (GEF) is mobilizing millions of students from across the country to participate in National Green Week 2011, a sustainability education (SE) campaign scheduled for the week of February 7-11, 2011. Over two million students participated during last year’s event, saving over 100,000 lbs of trash (in just 5 days) and tens of [...]
The Global Wind Energy Council, WWF, the LEGO Group, the UN Global Compact, Vestas Wind Systems, PricewaterhouseCoopers (the Official WindMade Verification Partner) and Bloomberg (the Official Data Provider to WindMade) today announced their support for the development of the first global consumer label identifying corporations and products made with wind energy.