Archive for the 'EVENTS' Category
June 28, 2010 — SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) announced that the team of students representing the University of Rosenheim, Germany at the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe has placed second, using high-performance SunPower solar panels to power the home they built for the competition. The school also took top honors in [...]
July 1st, 2010 | Posted in EVENTS, GREEN COMPANIES, SOLAR POWER | 1 Comment
U.S. Green Building Illinois Chapter (USGBC)
LEED Leaders and Liters: Community Initiatives
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
CTA Building, Chicago
River North Business Association and USGBC – Illinois Chapter’s July Green Business After Hours
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Citizen Bar
Chapter Business Meeting – Demystifiying Measurement & Verification: The Plan and the Reality
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Location TBD
Going Green and [...]
June 29th, 2010 | Posted in BIOFUELS, ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, GREEN ENERGY INSTALLERS, NONGOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS [NGOs], REAL ESTATE, SOLAR POWER | No Comments
It is everyone’s responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint at home, in business, and for our environment. It is easier than you think to go green more effectively without changing your lifestyle or your budget! There is a networking event next week not to be missed. It is for professionals that want to learn more [...]
June 25th, 2010 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, GENERAL, GREEN COMPANIES, NONGOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS [NGOs] | No Comments
“The Greening of Our Economy: Clean Energy Careers” Webinar and Discussion
Thursday, June 24, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Many of you have already registered but for those of you who haven’t, there is still time to sign up for the upcoming informative, online interactive discussion on careers in clean energy and [...]
June 22nd, 2010 | Posted in BIOFUELS, ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, FUEL CELLS, GENERAL, GEOTHERMAL, GREEN COMPANIES, GREEN ENERGY EMPLOYMENT, NONGOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS [NGOs], SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER, employment | No Comments
It is everyone’s responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint at home, in business, and for our environment. It is easier than you think to go green more effectively without changing your lifestyle or your budget! There is a networking event next week not to be missed. It is for professionals that want to learn more [...]
June 16th, 2010 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, GENERAL, GREEN COMPANIES | 1 Comment
For some, the term “smart building” might conjure up Hal 9000-like visions of know-it-all smart meters deciding when to turn off your office lights. But what if we told you even modest efficiency efforts could cut energy consumption in buildings by 30% to 50%, which would amount to $30 billion to $54 [...]
June 16th, 2010 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, GREEN COMPANIES | No Comments
It is everyone’s responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint at home, in business, and for our environement. It is easier than you think to go green more effectively without changing your lifestyle or your budget! There is a networking event next week not to be missed. It is for professionals that want to learn more [...]
June 11th, 2010 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, GENERAL, GREEN COMPANIES | No Comments
QT423YZ33XPT Apr 24, 2010 – John Tierney reports on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in The New York Times. He has some information from Stewart Brand’s new book, “Whole Earth Discipline,” in which he urges greens to “question convenient fables.”
How on target were the green movement leaders over the last 4 decades?
“1. It’s the [...]
April 24th, 2010 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, BIOFUELS, COAL, ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, FUEL CELLS, GEOTHERMAL, GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, NATURAL GAS, NUCLEAR, OIL COMPANIES, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | 1 Comment
Cleantech Forum XXVII – Paris, France
April 26-28, 2010
Themed “Towards a new normal: taking resource efficiency to scale in the 2010s,” Cleantech Forum XXVII Paris at Le Méridien Etoile over April 26-28th, 2010 will host 500 clean technology leaders, including investors, corporations, policy-makers, entrepreneurs and CEOs from around Europe – and [...]
February 16th, 2010 | Posted in EVENTS, GENERAL, GREEN COMPANIES | No Comments
Merry Christmas.
There are several ways to utilize green products at Christmas and beyond.
LED lights for decorations save a lot of energy, up to 95% less. The remaining bulbs in an LED strand will remain lit when one burns out. LED lights can last 100,000 hours.
Buy locally made gifts. They come without the added cost of [...]
December 25th, 2009 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS | 1 Comment
Dec 22, 2009 – Siemens is hard at work on technologies for integrating electric cars into the public power grid. The development of methods to rapidly recharge the cars is just one of the company’s contributions to Denmark’s Edison project, which is the first to plug a pool of vehicles into the grid. Practical testing [...]
December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, EVENTS, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, batteries | 2 Comments
Dec 16, 2009 -
Cleantech Forum San Francisco, on February 24-26th , 2010 at The Palace Hotel will help define the maturing cleantech market. The Forum is themed “Taking Cleantech to Scale” to focus on corporate integration of cleantech into growth strategies, new financing for innovation and infrastructure and global government engagement [...]
December 16th, 2009 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, BIOFUELS, ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, FUEL CELLS, GENERAL, GEOTHERMAL, GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, GREEN ENERGY EMPLOYMENT, HYDROELECTRICITY, HYDROGEN, INVESTMENTS, NATURAL GAS, NONGOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS [NGOs], NUCLEAR, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | No Comments
Dec 7, 2009 – Are you at the Copenhagen meeting? If so, please provide your comments here. USA President Barack Obama will be there as well as leaders from most developed and developing countries of the world. People are unsure if any major commitments will be made by the largest polluters in the world, or [...]
December 7th, 2009 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, BIOFUELS, BROADCAST MEDIA, ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, FUEL CELLS, GENERAL, GEOTHERMAL, GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, GREEN ENERGY EMPLOYMENT, GREEN ENERGY INSTALLERS, HYDROELECTRICITY, HYDROGEN, INVESTMENTS, NATURAL GAS, NONGOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS [NGOs], NUCLEAR, OIL COMPANIES, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER, batteries | 1 Comment