Van Jones did not disappoint as the keynote at the Climate Solutions 2nd Annual Fundraiser breakfast in Seattle this morning. He evoked the oil spill disaster in the Gulf as a learning opportunity and catalyst for moving us away from fossil fuels and towards a national climate policy. Jones stated that we are now paying
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
I am on the Steering Committee for the Eastside LEED Users Group (ELUG), the outreach arm of Cascadia Green Building Council. We meet monthly to share topics on sustainability that impact the built arena. Our hosts are GLY in Bellevue, on the eastside of Lake Washington. Our audience consists of architects, contractors, engineers, municipals as
Along with almost 1,000 other people, from many parts of the country, I attended the 2010 Living Future Conference in Seattle last week. The majority of the audience represented the Cascadia Regions’ design build commercial community. Also in attendance were corporate leaders, foundations, municipal representatives, community organizers, sustainability consultants, and marketing, and media folks to
It seems that April was my Clean Tech learning month. Last week I rounded out the trend by attending an area breakfast and program on the subject hosted by The Economic Development Council of Snohomish County. The program included several keynotes, with three panelists who focused on clean tech in the state, in Tri-Cities and