Tag Archives: management
Top 5 U.S Green Business Schools
Here are the top five business schools for those seeking to maximize the likelihood of securing an environmentally oriented job. This list was compiled by by US Green Technology and they are presented in ascending order by the cost of tuition cost. Portland State University School of Business Administration The MBA program at this school [...]
Will California Reach It’s Renewable Energy Goals?
California has the most ambitious renewable portfolio standard (RPS) in the nation, requiring that 33 percent of the state’s energy mix come from renewables by 2020. There are 29 states (and the District of Columbia) with RPS goals in effect, but the average amount of renewable energy required in those states is much less than [...]
Top 5 Things Needed for A Sustainable Supply Chain
A sustainable supply chain is composed of five basic elements: Measurement, suppliers, design, partners and leadership. Here is a breakdown of these five elements by Michael Koploy from an article published in Corporate Social Responsibility. Koploy is an ERP Analyst at Software Advice and manager of Warehouse Management Systems Guide. He reports on news and trends within supply [...]
Energy Monitoring For Small Businesses
There’s no getting around one of energy efficiency’s biggest PR problems: it’s just not as sexy as some other sustainable energy choices. People love the idea of something like solar, producing their own clean energy — and for good reason! We love solar, too. But energy efficiency is frequently overlooked, especially on existing buildings, when [...]
Energy Management: In The Sweet Spot
Since industrial and manufacturing companies use close to a third of all the energy consumed in the US each year, managing that energy is becoming a core business concern. This bodes well for cleantech companies that specialize in providing industrial energy management software and services. The U.S. market for these services will rise from $960 million in 2011 [...]
HelioPower Announces Key Management Changes
HelioPower, an integrated energy solutions company with over 1600 solar and cleanenergy systems engineered and installed since 2001, today announced thepromotion of Ty Jagerson to President and the appointment of ToddLindstrom as Chief Operating Officer. Jagerson, formerly co-founder of SolFocus and CEO of Simple Energies, joined HelioPower as executive vice president of commercial sales whenHelioPower [...]
Why Solar Radiation Management (SRM) isn’t the Answer
Solar radiation management (SRM) – aka ‘hard’ geo-engineering — is, literally, a smoke andmirrors solution to the dangers posed by unrestricted emissions ofgreenhouse gases,. As science advisor John Holdren resasserted in 2009 of strategies such as space mirrors or aerosol injection, “The ‘geo-engineering’ approaches considered so far appear to be afflicted with some combination of [...]
SunEdison Awarded CanFirst Capital Management Solar Projects
SunEdison, a division of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., announced thatit will develop and build industrial and retail roof-top solarphotovoltaic (PV) projects for CanFirst Capital Management, a privatereal estate company based in Toronto, Ontario. With thisagreement, SunEdison will finance, build, own, operate, monitor andmaintain photovoltaic solar energy systems with capacity totaling1.5-megawatts (MW). They will be hosted [...]
Rio+20: The Aftermath
Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, has come and gone. The global environmental community certainly had high hopes for this event, described as the biggest UN conference ever. With such outsized expectations, some people were bound to be disappointed… and in this case, a great many people felt let down by the conference. [...]