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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-mpravdgw&w=420&h=315] Here’s a radio interview I did the other day on a station in Cedar Rapids, IA. The show is cleverly called “Clean Up Your Act,” and deals with hundreds of different issues associated with sustainability and clean energy, …

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Please take a moment and consider the work of the Turimiquire Foundation, run by a dear friend, his brother, and a few others in a remote region of Northeastern Venezuela. You’ll travel a long way to find a group that, dollar-for-dollar, …

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As we scour our civilization in an effort to identify and rid ourselves of all things unsustainable, perhaps we should look past cleantech for a moment and examine a wider circles of our lives – perhaps including our involvement with …

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By: Ollie Oelofse, Founder and CEO, True North Bridged Technologies, Inc.  Sacramento, CA By: Yvonne R. Davis, M.S. M.A., P.C., Chief Operating Officer and Director of International Relations, True North Bridged Technologies, Inc.,  Sacramento, CA More than participating in “Going …

SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN GREEN; OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS UPON IT! Read More »

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Soon we’ll be getting started with a blog that I propose to call “Corporate Role Models,” in which we herald some of the good things corporate citizens are doing in lowering carbon footprint, and aiming at sustainability more generally. We’re …

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Wally Rippel, whom I interviewed for both my last book and current effort, led a team of college kids at Cal Tech in an electric vehicle race against MIT – in the 1960s! That’s not just yesterday, is it? Fortunately …

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcDG7jImhPI&w=425&h=349] In our July 2011 webinar “Corporate Sustainability: Tapping the Incredible Wisdom of Nature,” I interview Kathryn Alexander, leader of Ethical Impact, a group that helps the corporate world in issues concerning sustainability. 

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As I’ve mentioned, I always look forward to Jeremy Grantham’s quarterly newsletter. I admire his fluid and conversational writing style, his common sense, and his viewpoint that, while making lots of money is nice, we should at least consider the …

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Most of my business focus is on renewable energy — an arena that, if successful, could conceivably create a world in which it matters very little how much energy we consume – or even waste.  Some people say that that …

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On a drive to pick up my son this afternoon, I caught an episode of The Bioneers, a radio show covering issues in sustainability. Clever name, don’t you think? This week’s speaker began by mentioning that she’s from Illinois, a …

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