2011 Eco-Maverick Honorees Announced

Celebrity co-founder Adrian Grenier and founder Peter Glatzer will be honored for their innovative approach to raising awareness about the environment at the 5th Annual Opportunity Green Business Conference in Los Angeles this November. The Eco-Maverick award is given each year to a prominent celebrity for using their influence and exposure to promote sustainability issues…

Time Magazine

A Green Chamber of Commerce Offers a New Voice for Business The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has—how to put this—not been a friend of environmental legislation or regulation. The Chamber—which represents more than 3 million U.S. businesses—spent millions to lead the successful fight against carbon cap-and-trade legislation, along with health care reform and most of…

Today: Al Gore Launches 24 Hours of Climate Reality

Al Gore notoriously used multimedia to bring global warming to the public’s attention: Millions of people woke up to the climate crisis thanks to the world’s most famous Power Point presentation. An Inconvenient Truth thrust climate into the national discourse, forever branding global warming as an issue we could no longer ignore. But even though…

Dirty and In the Dark : The Aftermath of the Power Outage

On Thursday,  September 8th a widespread power outage left over 5 million people in California, Arizona, and Mexico without electricity. Among the population affected, 1.5 million San Deigans were left in the dark as 2 million gallons of sewage water began to spill into San Diego water tables, beaches, lagoons, and harbor.  The spillage caused the closure of 1o miles of San Diego…