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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, [...]
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] | 8 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 sustainability. Across every [...]
June 22nd, 2010 | Posted in BIOFUELS, EMPLOYMENT, 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 | 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 | 2 Comments
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 billion in annual [...]
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. [...]
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 beyond. The agenda [...]
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 [...]
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, BATTERIES, EVENTS, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS | 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 in cleantech. Learn [...]
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 | 1 Comment
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, BATTERIES, 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 | 1 Comment
Oct 18, 2009 – Are you going to SMARTSALON: ENERGY + THE CITY? It will be held November 12, 2009 at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York City. Where do problems and solutions intersect in mapping new energy pathways for the world’s burgeonin cities? PLEASE NOTE: This event is by invitation only!! For more [...]
October 18th, 2009 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, BATTERIES, BIOFUELS, ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, FUEL CELLS, GENERAL, GREEN COMPANIES, HYDROELECTRICITY, HYDROGEN, INVESTMENTS, NATURAL GAS, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | 1 Comment