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EverythingLongBeach.com plans green promotion to plant hundreds of trees

Climate change is one of the most daunting threats facing our world today. Creative solutions will be the key to changing the tides of the biggest fight of humanity. EverythingLongBeach.com will begin using Mokugift’s tree-planting rewards as prizes for the Great Green Ideas contest.
EverythingLongBeach.com actively supports green activities in Long Beach by promoting events that [...]

Fresh & Easy Opens LEED-certified store in California

Cathedral City Mayor Kathy DeRosa and California State Senator John Benoit joined Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market CEO Tim Mason in opening the grocer’s first LEED Gold Certified store, as established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). LEED is the nation’s preeminent program for the design, construction and operation of [...]

U.S. Designates Polar Bear Critical Habitat

It’s been a good couple of weeks for polar bears.  First, the Department of the Interior announced that it would propose tighter international regulations of polar bear trophy hunting and trade under international law and, today, the Department of the Interior unveiled a proposal to designate 200,000 square miles of “critical habitat” for the polar [...]

Princeton Review rates top green colleges and universities

The Princeton Review – known for its education services helping students choose and get in to colleges – today reported its second annual Green Ratings of colleges: a measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99.   The company tallied its Green Ratings for 697 institutions based on data [...]

Small Business find a green place to network online

Small businesses account for 99.7% of all employer firms in the United States. Next week (August 10), Greenergy2030.com will launch its free media network as a place to bring “green change” to the world through education, legislative efforts, media outreach and the dissemination of information about alternative energy and sustainable business practices.
Through the Greenergy2030 Business [...]

Blue Helmets Go Green

Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Um Bello, heads up the Alpha Company of the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) which is working in the region of Kakata in western Liberia. On 8 July 2009, Um Bello led his troops in a new exercise: planting trees to contribute to the UNEP-led Billion Tree campaign.
“The war against global [...]

Alliance for Climate Protection partners with Dot Eco, LLC

Dot Eco LLC, the applicant for the new .eco top level domain, recently announced it has entered into an integrated partnership with former Vice President Al Gore and his philanthropy, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to secure and promote the .eco top level domain.
.eco will be established for individuals to express their support for environmental [...]

Air has elevated cancer risk in 600 neighborhoods

WASHINGTON – Millions of people living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that put them at a much greater risk of contracting cancer, according to new data from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The levels of 80 cancer-causing substances released by automobiles, factories and other sources in these areas [...]

Biofuel Could Lighten Jet Fuel’s Carbon Footprint Over 80 Percent

The seeds of a lowly weed could cut jet fuel’s cradle-to-grave carbon emissions by 84 percent.
David Shonnard, Robbins Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, analyzed the carbon dioxide emissions of jet fuel made from camelina oil over the course of its life cycle, from planting to tailpipe. “Camelina jet fuel exhibits one of the largest greenhouse [...]

Kresge Announces New Higher Green Building Standards for Challenge-grant Applicants in Higher Education

The Kresge Foundation announced today that it is raising the bar on green building requirements for challenge grants awarded to applicants in the higher-education sector.
Effective June 2010, the foundation will only consider proposals for facilities-capital grants from colleges and universities that plan to use the funding for building projects – new construction, renovations, and expansions – [...]

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