All Posts Tagged With: "sustainability"

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Millions of Green Jobs? Beyond the Fantasy

There is another way of looking at the critical question of how to address the resource constraints, environmental challenges (including climate change) and social issues that are the underlying impetus for all the current noise about creating a new, green economy.

13Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Stapleton Home Tops LEED Platinum Projects

One of the homes featured in this year’s round-up is an HGTV Green Home located in the popular Stapleton infill development of Denver, which Jetson Green describes as a New Urbanist Community. Read more about what makes this a fantastic LEED Platinum project.

29Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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LEED Update — CU Boulder’s Williams Village North

The new $46.5 million residence hall has won LEED Platinum from the U.S. Green Building Council. It incorporates several eco-friendly elements such as use of solar panels which account for 12.5% of its energy source, and high-performance heat recovery systems.

19Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ridekick – Takin’ It to the Streets in Fort Collins

Ridekick International is celebrating its product release on the streets of Fort Collins in a bicycling road rally on Friday, June 24th. After a year in development, a fleet of the electric-assist power trailers will whisk company team members on a playful cruise around Old Town.

19Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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A Net-Zero Energy Historic Building in Grand Junction

“GSA will partner with regional businesses to maintain the historic features that make the building unique, while investing in sustainable technologies to make it one of the most energy- and cost-efficient buildings in the country,” Johnson told her audience.

1Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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A Recipe for Retrofits

The biggest stumbling block to making existing structures more sustainable is to justify the upfront expense. Sure, making an office more energy efficient will save money in the long run, but when budgets are tight, such efforts get put on the backburner. Living City Block aims to change that dynamic.

25Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CORE Sustainability Breakfast

CORE invites you to join them at one of the first high-rise office buildings in the United States–and the largest west of the Mississippi River to receive LEED Platinum status – the highest awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council.

7Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CityDesign Meets IBM’s CityOne - Plotting the Way Forward One Click at a Time

An international urban design and sustainability roundtable and room of energy executives, urban planner and environmentalists maybe was an odd place to present a video game. Unless, of course, it’s a game about energy, urban design and environmentalism, which, in this case, it is.

20Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Energy Entrepreneurs Vie for NREL Growth Forum Spot

Every aspect of new energy technology was covered from carbon sequestration to ground breaking home geothermal systems and next level wind analytics. In the end the winning presentations belonged to Algal Scientific Corporation, Ener-G-Rotors Inc, and Energy Materials Corporation.

31Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Boulder Stumbles Going Green

For all the solar panels arrayed on the roof of the municipal building on the corner of Broadway and Canyon, the roar of traffic tells a different story. The people of Boulder are just as wedded to their cars as they are anywhere else in America. The city has tried hard to try to get people to use public transport. But the buses crossing this busy intersection are all virtually empty. “Changing behaviour at a community level is not easy and it doesn’t happen at a rapid pace,” admits Jonathan Koehn, Boulder’s regional sustainability co-ordinator, during a tour of some of the city’s green initiatives.

2Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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U.S. Business Leaders Call for Revolution in Energy Technology Innovation

The key, they say, is reforming and strengthening U.S. investment in energy innovation — the most critical element to securing America’s future. This isn’t just another clean energy advocacy group. Members range from Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Chad Holliday, former CEO of DuPont, to GE’s Jeff Immelt and Lockheed Martin’s former chair, Norm Augustine.

1Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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GREEN JOBS? Maybe, But Not the Way You Think

The endless green jobs debate largely misses the essential point. The REAL driver for a new, green economy is the fact that the very largest global corporations have recognized the massive competitive advantage they can secure using sustainability thinking as a central driver of their C-strategy.

1Jun2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Colorado State University Offerering First Global
Environmental Sustainability Course in Fall

Global Environmental Sustainability Seminar, GES-192, is a 3-credit course that offers an introduction to sustaining ecosystems and people in a changing world.

7May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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