U.S. Green Chamber Of Commerce 25 July 2011 LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD: ETHANOL SUBSIDIES & CONGRESS Getting renewables on a level playing field with fossil fuels should be a top priority for Congress. Last month, we covered the need to end oil subsidies. This month, we discuss what is happening with ethanol subsidies. Scientists agree…
The City of San Diego opens the doors this summer to a facility that is testing whether it could provide a new local source of water for San Diego. Located in northern San Diego, the Advanced Water Purification Facility is a small-scale, state-of-the-art water purification facility that purifies one million gallons of recycled water every…
877MyJuicer.com was founded in 2004 by Andrew Casey, the current owner and CEO, with the goal of providing affordable appliances that help sustain healthy lifestyles. “877MyJuicer.com was founded on the basic principle of feeling better,” said Casey. “In 2003, I searched Google for ‘feel better’ to [find] anything that might lift my general spirit…
The clean economy has remained elusive in part because, in the absence of standard definitions and data, strikingly little is known about its nature, size, and growth at the critical regional level. Seeking to help address these problems, the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings worked with Battelle’s Technology Partnership Practice to develop, analyze, and comment on…
Since 1973, the San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) has helped to fund job training programs throughout San Diego County in order to provide both youth and adults with the skills and knowledge necessary to enter the workforce in fields like healthcare, information technology, and the newly emerging green industry. “The San Diego Workforce Partnership has…
I woke with fresh coffee and a soy yogurt. When I was finished I rinsed the container and, doing my best to be a responsible recycler, examined the number on the bottom of the container to find the number 6 inside a recycling symbol. Prior to researching what numbers on the bottom of plastic containers meant, I would have just tossed it in…
Over the next three to four decades, humankind must bring about a fundamental technological overhaul of production processes worldwide to end poverty and avert the likely catastrophic impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, the United Nations says in a new report. Major investments will be needed worldwide in the development and scaling up of…
Julie and Jocbethem Tahapary are a socially-conscious team, seeking to do their part in helping the planet and reducing the world’s dependency on fossil fuels. They are independent distributors for Greenfoot Global, which markets a green technology called EnviroTabs. “EnviroTabs helps reduce tailpipe emissions by allowing fuel to burn quicker inside the combustion chamber,” Jocbethem…
In the wake of a lawsuit filed by environmental groups, California will delay enforcement of its greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program by one year to give the state more time fine-tune the scheme. The head of the California Air Resources Board(CARB) said Wednesday that polluters wouldn’t have to comply with the emissions trading program until 2013, but…
U.S. Green Chamber Day at the San Diego Fair was an overwhelming success. It was a beautiful Saturday on the coast, and we had a great time interacting with our members. Here is some of the feedback we have received about the event: “We got very good feedback and leads from the event and it…