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ECOAID LEADS IN GREEN EDUCATION WITH NEW CARBON PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL

October 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

EcoAid™, the Valley’s leading pioneers in Green business as Arizona’s sole sustainability and carbon offsetting company, is excited to announce the creation of the nation’s first and only Carbon Professional School based right here in Phoenix. Climate change and Green industry practices are becoming critical factors in the US business economy, which requires the learning and understanding of new concepts. As Corporate America prepares itself for new, stricter carbon emissions regulations, and the American public begins to actively take a more vested interest in the effects of their lifestyle... [Read the full story]

GreenBusiness

The unheralded significance of the Audi ‘green police’ ad

February 8, 2010 · Comments Off

Read the full post at Grist. Is it me or were the Super Bowl commercials this year unusually ugly, misogynistic, and, worst of all, unfunny? Some of America’s biggest corporations seemed to be trying to play to Teabag America, and the results were as bitter as the teabaggers themselves. Amidst the dreck was a commercial from Audi featuring the “green police.” Tags: illinois carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon offsets, buy carbon credits, illinois carbon consultants, illinois carbon offsets, Carbon Credits, carbon neutral Read More →

GreenHomes

Sustainable Home Building – Your Choice For Going Green

December 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By John Rault – Sustainable home building features the conservation of resources to a large degree. In a finite environment using resources efficiently is the hallmark of a new method of building your home. Using recycled products is part of this process. In building a home with a view to conserving energy, your house will be architecturally designed to reflect this. When your home is energy efficient, you’ll use less energy to power your house. Less energy means burning less finite fossil fuel. Therefore, you’ll be responsible for less carbon emissions into the environment.... [Read the full story]

GreenSchools

Start With the Walls to Build a Green School

December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By Alice Lane Taxpayers want them to save money. Elected officials want them because they make their district, county, or state look good. Students want them because they’re cool and school employees want them because they make budgeting easier. Everyone is looking to make school buildings as green as possible. As you drive by new school buildings being constructed you might see solar panels or windmills, but the external things are not what truly make a school green. A school might have a windmill to help the students better understand the way wind technology can produce electricity, but... [Read the full story]

EcoCars

Eco Cars Top Detroit Auto Show

January 12, 2010 · Comments Off

Eco cars are dominating this year’s Detroit Auto Show with a number of new concept hybrids being launched by both large and small automakers. The Ford Fusion Hybrid won the 2010 North American Car of the Year, at this year’s 2010 North American International Auto Show, which opened for previews Monday, reports The Washington Post. Ford [...] Tags: carbon neutral, carbon offsets, carbon footprint, Carbon Credits, carbon neutrality, buy carbon credits, carbon offsetting Read More →

GreenPower

Keeping Down with the Joneses

January 27, 2010 · Comments Off

I recently read about what I think is the most ingenious plan to get people to voluntarily lower their energy use: Make it a competition. A start-up company called OPower is working with utility companies across the country to mail utility customers their energy usage — and comparing their numbers with the neighbors’ numbers. This tiny incentive of wanting to keep up with the neighbors — in this case by keeping energy use down –- has been enough to get customers to lower their energy use by about 1.2 percent to 2.8 percent. While that number seems small, multiply it by millions... [Read the full story]

GreenBusiness

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Fighting Climate Change is a Business Model

Last month, the blog Solve Climate published a report detailing Bell Labs’ new initiative to make the systems that power the Internet more energy efficient by convening a “Green Touch” consortium composed of industry, universities, science labs and non-profits. The consortium is committed to find open-source...

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Getting Real About Measurement: How to Size Up the Triple Bottom Line

Read the full story at GreenBiz. As businesses become increasingly strategic about sustainability programming, using metrics to measure and manage social, environmental and economic impacts has become standard practice. Yet, there’s still significant variation in how companies interpret and use the resulting...

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Where’s that next big energy savings? Try the cash register

Read the full story at GreenerWorking.com. Some of the biggest energy savings for small business operations are right in front of you, but you can’t actually see them. Reason: They’re in the latest computer chips inside cash registers. Or if you’re past accepting cash, then the lingo is point-of-sale (POS)...

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Lighting: A Path to a Greener Bottom Line

Read the full story at GreenerBuildings. Call them the two greatest challenges now facing American businesses: Companies must not only survive the “Great Recession” of today, but must strategically position themselves for the green economy of tomorrow. The bad news is that the pressure to perform flawlessly...

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The Pendulum of Energy Efficiency and the Importance of Human Factors

Read the full story at GreenerBuildings. I have noticed that my lighting industry peers are increasingly focusing on carbon footprint cost and the sustainability of lighting systems. Commendable use of their time as, from the U.S. Department of Energy to the New York Mayor’s Office, the push is for 30 percent...

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2010: Start of Our Make-or-Break Decade? What Green Leaders Think Comes Next

Read the full story in E The Environmental Magazine. Last Earth Day, we reached out to some of the brightest green movers and shakers, and asked them how they were going to spend the day, as well as how they thought the rest of the year would go. Now that 2010 has begun, we thought it would be a great time to circle...

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Plastic Q & A

Read the full post at Earth 911. Even though recycling has been around for decades, there’s still a great deal to learn about it. Especially as our focus on environmental issues as a nation continues to rise, our collective knowledge about sustainable options like recycling is more crucial than ever. But let’s...

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Get Green-Savvy

Read the full post at Earth 911. Why does it all even matter? We’ve all been there for the probing questions that follow habitual green activities or beliefs. While you know why you do it, it may be hard to articulate when you’re “under the gun,” so to speak. Whether it’s lack of information,...

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Going Green

By Derico Dabney – Currently we are facing dire economical and ecological times. Recent changes and breakdowns in several industries have left millions unemployed; as they are forced to watch their finances dwindle or disappear altogether. In addition, our reluctance to embrace a burgeoning emphasis on finding...

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Why the Triple Bottom Line Matters More Than Ever

Read the full story at GreenBiz. The conventional way to measure the success of a business is the bottom line. But the concept of a triple bottom line, where social and environmental factors are considered along with economic ones, is also getting a lot of attention. Is this another business fad? Is it a new management...

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Selecting an Electronics Recycler, tips for local governments and small businesses

Title: Selecting an Electronics Recycler, tips for local governments and small businesses Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows®...