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Introducing STARS, a voluntary points-based rating system inspired by LEED, which will allow transportation professionals to plan and compare their projects using a national sustainability standard.

It’s Summer. The fair’s in town.  It’s going green and Minnesota is leading the charge with The Eco Experience Exhibit.  Why make a big to-do about a seemingly small feat?  Because in one turn-o-the-wheel, nearly 500,000 people will be exposed to a varied and diverse weekend event calendar, addressing everything from alternative energies, personal diet, [...]

Beer and Sun are two things that go hand in hand with the summer.  Summer BBQs, ballgames, and trips to the beach usually involve both.  So, we’re excited about an improvement to near perfect union of the two.
Enter the 2009 Craft Lager Festival, a beer fest entirely fueled by the summer sun.   The [...]

There is a movement afoot in one of the classic post-industrial cities of the US which is now becoming the embodiment of a local, green economy. Once known far and wide as “The Smoky City”, Pittsburgh, PA, was the world’s largest producer of steel and had the pollution to show for it: black skies, streetlights [...]

The military and it’s vets are very quickly going green. The convergence of the energy independence and national security discussions happened a while ago, but it seems that we are just starting to see implementation of it now. Just as an aside, I cannot explain this incredible lag. From members of my family with connections [...]

FDR’s 1935 Works Progress Administration was the mother of public infrastructure programs. The country was in the toilet and this program employed all comers. If there’s something really amazing and built out of stone in your town, look for the WPA letters carved into it somewhere. This is true of the bridges in Pittsburgh that [...]

Don’t you love when the government does something right?  The California Department of Conservation just gave away $20 million from unclaimed recycled CRV funds (ya know, that weird symbol on your glass Guayaki bottle).  These mega-bucks went to companies statewide that demonstrate strong recycling development & expansion efforts.  At no-cost to the states general fund [...]

If you’ve seen Shaun White’s porcelain punim staring at you from a newsstand lately, it may be from atop the latest version of Fast Company. It features an interesting article that lists what they see as the 10 most promising green jobs of the decade. It’s an interesting mix of traditionally blue and white collar [...]

How could renewable energy possibly benefit America’s traditional farmers?  How does the average young person in middle America see themselves fitting into a “sustainable lifestyle”?  Just ask anyone in the 760 person town of Trimont, Minnesota.  Approximately 67 Wind Turbines have been generating not only energy throughout the state but also millions in revenue for [...]

Green Collar Jobs
What was once blue is turning green.  Green collar that is.  A sprouting labor force in the environmental sector has been growing rapidly in the last few years.  What’s a green collar job you ask? “It has to pay decent wages and benefits that can support a family. It has to be part [...]