from poconoraceway.com – August 1, 2010 POCONO RACEWAY TAKES THE “GREEN” FLAG IN SOLAR ENERGY Major Renewable Energy Project is the World’s Largest for a Sports Facility POCONO, PA…July 31, 2009… Pocono Raceway is getting ready to “Go Green” by installing a three megawatt solar farm, which will power all the track’s energy needs and [...]
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Pocono Raceway Unveils 25 Acres of Power…from the Sun!
Posted in Economic Prosperity on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Richard Branson Finds the Perfect 10
Posted in Economic Prosperity, tagged economic prosperity, green jobs, green economy, sustainable jobs, sustainable economy, economic competitiveness, Richard Branson, ecocapitalist, Green venture capitalist, green investment on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Richard Branson’s Virgin Green Fund seeks to support more mature energy companies that have significant growth on the horizon, but yep, still need just a guiding hand to get them through the growing pains of moving from start-up to mature. $220 Million says they’re serious about the effort, which makes them different than many venture [...]
Sustainable Means Retainable (Jobs That Is!)
Posted in Economic Prosperity, tagged economic competitiveness, green economy, green jobs, Lisa Renstrom, sustainable economy, sustainable jobs, Tracy Russ on May 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My big takeaway from the CERES 2010 conference this past week in Boston? Well, there were two: 1. Sustainable actions mean retainable jobs. As Ken Colburn, Environmental point guy at Stoneyfield Farms (the nation’s largest organic yogurt producer) shared, 48 people at the company owe their jobs to efforts the company made to reduce waste, [...]
Windex Warrior: Fisk Johnson Says “We Need Disruptive Progress”racy
Posted in Economic Prosperity, tagged Converge, economic competitiveness, economic prosperity, Fisk Johnson, sustainable economy, sustainable jobs, Tracy Russ on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
FROM THE CERES CONFERENCE – I’ve never liked Lemon Pledge so much in my life (and I love it) as I listened to Fisk Johnson, SC Johnson’s CEO and Chairman, put his Pledge and Windex where his mouth is, saying, “We need disruptive progress, a step change, from business, from government, from individuals. Sustainability issues [...]
Right on, Target! Honcho retailer backs climate change action
Posted in Economic Prosperity, tagged green office, green jobs, green economy, sustainable jobs, sustainable economy, economic competitiveness, Tracy Russ on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Ceres conference: Target Corp. announces it has joined BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy). Target is nation’s 2nd largest retailer, with 350,000 employees and $65B in revenues.
The 21st Century Office – Yes, we can still have red staplers in the Green office
Posted in Economic Prosperity, tagged green office, 21st century, economic prosperity on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The people at World Wildlife Fund and HP have partnered to pull together a great site and video entitled, “The 21st Century Office” that highlights technologies that can save money and reduce waste for companies, adding to the economic bottom line for everyone. While it’s not the first time that these points have been made [...]
Human Wealth and Power – Economists Say Use It!
Posted in Economic Prosperity on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
During our outreach to various groups that we think might have something to offer to the Converge story, we ran across E3 – Economics for Equity & Environment. This is a group of JUST economists who realize that the economic benefits and justice message hasn’t been a strong enough part of the climate change message. [...]
Siemens Says “Sustainability Behind Everything”
Posted in Economic Prosperity, tagged activism, Earth Day on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While I was in Copenhagen for the COP15 conference last December, one of the most impressive displays was from Siemens. An entire exhibit of green energy solutions, not just a few, or even twenty, but dozens. And they weren’t just “someday-this-will-happen” ideas, they were right here, right now solutions. They even had a electric chopper [...]
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 [...]
Gettin’ Green – Go Ecocapitalists!!
Posted in Economic Prosperity on April 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A Converge shout out to these people -thanks to the great work at Grist and the ClimateDesk project! 14 Innovators Who Are Changing Green Business Move over, hemp tote bags: These ecocapitalists see profit in fixing the planet. Leslie Christian Founder, Upstream 21 & Portfolio 21, Seattle “Small companies are critical to the future of [...]
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