Archive for the 'NONGOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS [NGOs]' Category

Ads Continued: International Planned Parenthood Federation

Mar 5, 2010 – Is this a green energy subject?  The headline of the ad is “Concerned about a sustainable world?”  The photo shows a favela in, I guess, Rio de Janeiro.  “Over 60% of poor women in Latin America and the Caribbean don’t have access to contraceptives.  IPPF/WHR provides essential sexual an reproductive health [...]

Ads Continued: NRDC donated by Peter Morton

Feb 19, 2010 – Earlier this month the NRDC, “The Earth’s Best Defense” [Who are they?] of NYC had full page ads donated by Peter  Morton [Who is he?].  The NRDC is Natural Resources Defense Council & its Trustee’s include well-know actors, actresses, celebrities, wealthy businessman, etc. The ad was directed to US Senators & [...]

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 [...]

Gorbachev Chimes in on Climate Change; Maybe He’ll Go on Tour With Gore

Dec 10, 2009 – Who’s taking the lead in protecting the earth from climate change?  Mikhail Gorbachev.  You read it right, Mikhail Gorbachev.  Read his Op-Ed piece in today’s The New York Times, titled, “We Have a Real Emergency.” He links climate change to “security issues and to increasingly dangerous ethnic and international conflicts; [...]

Copenhagen Meeting – President Barack Obama

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 [...]

Tesla May Manufacture Electric Cars at Old NASA Factory in Downey, California

Tesla Motors is in the process of closing a deal to manufacture electric cars  at the site of a former NASA manufacturing plant in Downey, California,  according to Mayor Mario Guerra. The facility once employed 30,000 aerospace engineers and scientists.
“We’re excited by the possibility of Tesla coming here,” Guerra said. “We feel this could become the [...]

Business of Green

Nov 19, 2009 -  The New York Times published a full section titled “Business of Grren” Nov 19, 2009.   The following articles are included.  Click on the title to go to The New York Times article.  “Making Renewables Reliable“, “Storm Over the Chamber“, “A Surplus of Energy That Might Even Last“, “Companies Call Government Incentives [...]

Green Energy Ads Continued: America’s New Natural Gas

Nov 11, 2009 – OK, I don’t know how our new natural gas differs from our old natural gas.  The ad shows a perplexed individual [my interpretation] of an individual with a blue flame coming out of his head with the headline, “NATURAL GAS CONTRIBUTED $385 BILLION TO THE ECONOMY LAST YEAR. EUREKA!”  [I don’t [...]

Alternative Energy Jobs

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How Many Gadgets Do You Have?

July 10, 2009 – How much energy are you using to power your must-have gadgets? The Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates that new electronic gadgets will triple their energy consumption to 1,700 terawatt hours by 2030. There would need to be an additional 200 new nuclear plants to power all the TV, iPods, PCs and [...]

China’s Suntech Bets on Obama’s Green Energy

China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co. (stock symbol: STP) had only one employee in the U.S. in 2006. He operated with a mobile phone and laptop in his basement. Suntech Power, the world’s largest producer of solar-power modules now has 50 workers at its a San Francisco U.S. headquarters. The China-based company is searching for a [...]

MIT Sustainability Summit – Discovering New Dimensions for Growth – April 24, Cambridge, MA

Apr 3, 2009 – MIT is hosting the first-ever MIT Sustainability Summit: Discovering New Dimensions for Growth on April 24th, 2009. It will bring together students, engineers, business leaders, academics, environmental activists, and public servants to discuss how we can most effectively support each other as we face the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to [...]

Green Energy Ads Continued

Feb 2, 2009 – Today’s ad from the recent Newsweek isn’t from a company, but rather from a consortium of organizations supporting green energy. The tagline is, “LET’S ENGINEER OUR WAY TO A STRONG ECONOMY.” “Repower America Now With Clean Energy.” Of course, there is the obligatory picture of a wind farm. As stated previously [...]

SolFest XIV – August 8th – 9th, 2009 in Hopeland, California

SolFest is a celebration of renewable energy and sustainable living. Since 1996 over 100,000 people have attended workshops, listened to well-know speakers, enjoyed music and visted exhibits by developers and distributors of green products and services. SolFest a learning opportunity and a celebration at the same time. 
The Solar Living Institute’s home, the Solar Living Center, is a unique [...]

Solar Careers & Industry Opportunities Workshop at Solar Living Institute

Due to popular demand and a rapid sell-out of the January 16 workshop,  Solar Careers and Industry Opportunities will be offered again on February 25th. For more information on this workshop and the Solar Living Institute in Hopeland, California, please visit their website, solarliving.org.