Climate Change, Green Business »

[9 Mar 2010 | 19 views]

sacdomeCalifornia’s independent budget watchdog, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, predicts job losses in California due to, among other things, the state’s climate change legislation, according to a report today in Reuters.

In 2006, California passed a climate change law that mandates greenhouse gas emissions cutbacks to 1990 levels by the year 2020.

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News and Views »

[28 Feb 2010 | 77 views]

This was the year when the Olympic organizing committee vowed to go green.  And many of those bronze, silver, and gold medals, are — yes — green.

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News and Views, Renewable Energy »

[22 Feb 2010 | 32 views]

Could this be the next revolution in energy?  Or are there two sides to this  story as the Christian Science Monitor suggests? Side One — It is already in use on eBay campuses and hear what they have to say. CBS 60 Minutes showed the Bloom Box - a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard that works as a power source 60 Minutes: Bloom box and bloom energy.

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Renewable Energy »

[15 Feb 2010 | 80 views]

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Environmentalists and the media are enamored with the idea of renewable technology. Solar technology, in particular, has exciting possibilities. But, with a bit more research, two major problems with solar tech solutions quickly become evident.

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Green Business, Sustainable Building »

[14 Feb 2010 | 51 views]

Eco-Friendly and Patient Friendly Are Newest Trends in Healthcare.  In this video we are remined that while hospitals make up only four percent of the country’s total building population, they  consume eight percent of the energy.  Here is a solution, a hospital so green it is the platinum standard.

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