From Huffington Post, July 30 // DETROIT — General Motors said Friday that it is boosting production capacity for its new Chevrolet Volt due to strong public interest in the electric car that goes on sale this year. GM will now have a production capacity of 45,000 vehicles in 2012, up from previous plans for [...]
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Zap!!!! GM to Boost Production of Chevy VOLT By 50 Percent To Meet Demand!
Posted in Converge News on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Green Jobs Award – Nominations Open!
Posted in Converge News on July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Announcing new Green Jobs Award by Nick Flores from greenforall.org – With support from the Citi Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, SJF Advisory Services and Green For All have partnered to launch a Green Jobs Award Program, which seeks to identify, recognize, and promote private companies that are leaders in quality green job creation. Green [...]
Green Prosperity Report Points Way to New American Jobs
Posted in Converge News on July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States” is a new report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PERI), commissioned by Green For All and NRDC. The report finds that investments in a clean energy economy can significantly drive down the [...]
70 Sustainable Practices Make Proximity Hotel a Great Green Stay
Posted in Converge News on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While at a 20-year college reunion in Greensboro, NC (yes, I’m an alum of Guilford College!) I had the chance to stay at one of the few LEED Certified hotels in the United States. Overall it was a FANTASTIC experience! The Proximity Hotel manages to retain the creature comforts of an upper-end home away from [...]
18 Corporations (Like Nike, Starbucks, Target and Levi’s) Say Let’s Get Our Green On, Congress!
Posted in Converge News on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Shortly after the release of the American Power Act yesterday (May 12, 2010) from Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I – Conn.), a coalition of 18 US corporations called BICEP released a statement supporting passage of the bill and asking Congress to HURRY UP!! The coalition released a statement of support, saying in [...]
One-armed man builds largest wind farm…”singlehandedly”
Posted in Converge News on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not our joke, but it’s a good one and it came straight from the mouth of Cliff Etheredge, a one-armed, former cotton farmer in Roscoe, Texas who has built the largest wind farm in Texas that he says he “took on as a challenge” and says “I guess you could say I did it singlehandedly.” [...]
‘Mills, Baby, ‘Mills says Oilman T. Boone Pickens!
Posted in Converge News, tagged green economy, economic competitiveness, Tracy Russ, climate change legislation, US energy policy, green energy, renewable energy, T. Boone Pickens on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Who do you think might be an unlikely ally for green energy sources? At first blush, you’d think that long-time Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens would be the LAST person to say that we need more windmills, more solar, more alternative energy sources, but that’s exactly what he advocates for in his PickensPlan. Why? Because [...]
Converge Seeks Website Editors and Book Contributors!
Posted in Converge News, tagged climate change campaigns, climate change communications, Converge, Converge Story, environmental communications, environmental editor, environmental writer, freelance environmental writers, green editors, green writers, Lisa Renstrom, Tracy Russ on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Converge seeks volunteer BOOK CONTRIBUTORS (people who write a one-time story about the future) and volunteer WEBSITE EDITORS (people who can regularly contribute to the Blog and site)! EDITORS will regularly update the Converge network via the website Blog, Facebook Fan page and Twitter feed with news and perspectives on at least a once-a-week basis. [...]
Converge Goin’ to Ceres Conference!
Posted in Converge News, Economic Prosperity on April 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We know…the image of most gatherings of the enviro. crowd is a a bunch of peeps in organic fabrics, protesting and loudly decrying corporate America – Converge says more power to ‘em and some of our biz world definitely deserves the rap! BUT, there is a large movement that is coming from those who are [...]
What’s Next for the Movement?
Posted in Converge News, tagged activism, Earth Day on April 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Earth Days, a new documentary film that traces the path of activism from the first Earth Day 40 years ago, is a great look at the origins of Earth Day and some of the people that were early leaders. But, the big question now is…what’s next? Take a look at the Earth Day trailer and [...]
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