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Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore received the 2009 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award this evening for his successful efforts to raise awareness about climate change. The award was inspired by Applied Materials Chairman Emeritus James Morgan’s belief that technology can be ...
Environment
Al Gore
Climate Change
Bangladesh
James Carville
Bill Gates
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We’ve all seen them. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports weighing it at nearly 100 pages, crammed with charts and graphs, and gray with type. There’s valuable information in there, but unearthing commentary on issues of strategic importance can be daunting.
That’s why I was ...
Green Living
Gap
Colbert Report
Technology works best when it’s least intrusive and does the heavy lifting for you. Apple understands this. And so, it seems, does EcoFactor, the winner of the recent Clean Tech Open.
What it does behind the scenes is fairly complex, but for the user, easy and out of the way: It keeps your home ...
Environment
Green Grid
Clean Calgary Association
Eco Goats
Engaging employees through sustainability is not a one size fits all approach. From Walmart’s Personal Sustainability Project to Sodexo’s Corporate Citizenship Program to Intel’s intranet to FMYI’s online collaboration, the variety is endless. Each of the four members ...
Environment
Green Grid
Wal-Mart
Intel
The term “fair trade handicrafts” summons images of wicker baskets and hand-dyed sarongs. But the business side of the fair trade marketplace is getting a little less old-world, thanks to World of Good, an organization that connects artisans in developing countries with mainstream ...
Green Living
eBay
Ever since I was a kid, when my father used give me Matchbox cars he bought on his way home from work, I’ve been crazy about cars. So I was extremely excited to have the opportunity to speak with Simon Saba of Saba Motors, whose EV vision is something any gearhead can get jazzed about: ...
Energy/Transportation
Alternative Transportation
Boats outfitted with solar panels have become “floating classrooms” for children in the low-lying regions of Bangladesh, where floods have destroyed crops, schools, roads and infrastructure. They are among the more than 20 million people who became displaced last year due to climate change. In ...
Environment
Barack Obama
Al Gore
Climate Change
Bangladesh
It wasn’t all that long ago that Chrysler Corp. pocketed more than $12.5 billion in government bailout funds to avoid a bankruptcy filing, promising on the way to the bank to build more fuel efficient cars and produce electric vehicles by 2011.
About three years later the U.S. carmaker has ...
Energy/Transportation
Chrysler
Fiat
Alternative Transportation
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Sustainable Industries continues to impress me. Yesterday’s SI
Economic Forum featured Paul Hawken, well-known author (Ecology of
Commerce, Natural Capitalism, Blessed Unrest) and sustainability guru (the mind behind Wiser Earth and a variety ...
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At Tuesday’s Academy Awards of Cleantech (The Cleantech Open), attendees were all abuzz about Seattle based HydroVolts, winner of the $20,000 Cleantech Open sustainability prize. HydroVolts has created a floating in-stream hydrokinetic turbine that generates distributed renewable energy ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
h.u.m.a.n. Healthy Vending is on a mission to change the world–one snack at a time.
The Los Angeles -based company is turning the $30 billion/year vending industry on its ear by using state-of-the-art, energy efficient machines filled only with healthy foods and drinks.
In addition, h.u.m.a.n. ...
Environment
Eco Goats
Nothing is more frustrating than trying to remove a newly purchased item from its super-strong packaging. You pull and you tug, you rip and you cut, but no matter how hard you try, the packaging just won’t budge! Whether it’s a brand new DVD, a new electronic gadget, a child’s toy or a box of ...
Green Living
Amazon
Eco Goats
Say you’re the Mayor of San Francisco. You’re spending million of dollars every year to increase energy efficiency, install solar panels and encourage the use of electric cars — all in an effort to lower your city’s greenhouse gas emissions, in line with (hypothetical) ...
Environment
Climate Change
Methane Gas
A maker of thermostat data systems that claims to be able to reduce heating and cooling costs for buildings by 20-30 percent won Grand Prize at this year’s Cleantech Open, one of the leading environmental technology competitions in the country.
Ecofactor makes integrated systems that ...
Environment
Clean Calgary Association
Eco Goats
Green Grid
Pop quiz: what does our municipal sewage waste that gets processed at wastewater treatment plants, and the great Pacific garbage patch, have in common?
Well, not much…yet.
A clean tech startup by the name of Micromidas may change all that, and in the process, change the game for plastic ...
Green Living
Clean Calgary Association
While waiting for the PBS show, the NewsHour to begin, I saw a Monsanto advertisement which said, “Monsanto…producing more, conversing more…that’s sustainable agriculture.” On Monsanto’s website the company state that its commitment is to “help farmers produce more and conserve more” by 2030. ...
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Southern California based Genea Energy is ranked number 13 on Forbes’ America’s Most Promising Companies list. Doug Schneider, Genea Energy’s CEO, said, “Forbes saw in Genea a special potential for growth, and that just echoes what our management team has been saying all along. We have a ...
Green Living
Clean Calgary Association
California
When it comes to footwear, comfort, style, durability and affordability are important aspects when picking out a pair of shoes. But there is a lot more that goes into shoes than just our feet.
Canadian-based footwear company Oliberté, is stepping up and reaching out to impoverished African ...
Environment
Eco Goats
Liberia
By Martin Melaver
Recently, I’ve been reading with my son The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. We’re at that point in the story when our travelers arrive on the planet of Magrathea. Magrathea, you may recall, made a name for itself millions of years ago by specializing in building designer ...
Environment
The Land Institute
Stephen Colbert
At the last minute, I decided to attend Tuesday night’s Cleantech Open Awards Gala, and was pleasantly surprised at just how many companies with game-changing technologies were participating in the event. From the finalists to the runners-up to last year’s winners, the promise of ...
