The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a measure to ban plastic bags at grocery stores and other shops in unincorporated Los Angeles County areas. The goal of the ordinance is to get people to use their reusable bags. It applies to grocery stores, drug stores, liquor stores and convenience stores. Customers would no…
Local business owners described the greening of their own operations — and how other companies can follow suit — at the recent Bright Green Future Conference, which was held at University of San Diego. Of the 50 speakers and panelists at the Nov. 5- 6 program sponsored by San Diego EarthWorks, about a half dozen…
A Solana Beach company says business is booming in connecting people with solar installers, energy auditors and green contractors. Greener Dawn operates hundreds of websites that give people information on solar installations and energy savings, collects their information, and then sells it to contractors and installers as sales leads. “We’re a technology company that does…
If you’re thinking about going solar, well, in a way, you already have. Most of the energy we use on Earth was created by the sun. Oil, coal, natural gas, wind, hydropower, even the heat from a wood-burning stove. (Big exceptions are nuclear and geothermal power.) By relying on fossil fuels, we’ve built a civilization…
TASIILAQ, Greenland — With a tense pilot gripping the stick, the helicopter hovered above the water, a red speck of machinery lost in a wilderness of rock and ice. To the right, a great fjord stretched toward the sea, choked with icebergs. To the left loomed one of the immense glaciers that bring ice from…
The Green Chamber of San Diego County is proud to present Brother Ishmael Tetteh as the features speaker on our upcoming event, Thursday, November 18th, at hotel Solamar, whom will be speaking about sustainability from the perspective of living in harmony with nature. Brother Ishmael Tetteh is the Founder of Conscious Humanity in the United…
How much thought do you actually give your lighting system? Well, just a little could dramatically affect your energy saving and your bottom line. It’s a LED, and if you think about it, you can’t afford not to implement LED lights into your existing lighting system. Light Emitting Diodes, or LED lights as we know…