Will the Solar Industry Soon Face a Lack of Skilled Labor? By Comly Wilson Reposted from Clean Edison Continued Growth The growth of the solar industry may soon face the reality of not having enough skilled workers to satisfy demand, suggests a recent report by The Solar Foundation and the …
Reposted from Clean Edison Blog What the Green Building Industry Can Learn From Motorola By Comly Wilson, 2011 C2C Fellow Whether driven by a genuine desire to reduce their environmental footprint, or simply to insulate themselves against rising costs, energy efficiency is becoming a significant organizational goal for many companies …
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http://scienceprogress.org/2012/12/technology-and-society-fracking-ideology/ As a follow up to the Science Progress article I co-authored with Dr. Adam Briggle earlier this July, we have written another short piece that again explains the subject of our study, Technology and Society: Fracking Ideology, and requests reader participation. You can find the article linked here and above. …
by Taylor Evans The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is a City agency of approximately 6,000 employees. DEP both manages and conserves the water supply for NYC and collects and treats all wastewater. It is estimated that DEP distributes more than one billion gallons of drinking water to 9 million New Yorkers …
By Alicia Caruso ’14 and Sara DiNovi ’14 The National Climate Seminar recently hosted Jeremy Osborn, the Director of Operations at 350.org, an environmental advocacy group focused on building grassroots movements for environmental initiatives, namely climate change, worldwide. 350 is both a number (350 ppm) and a symbol. It stands …
I started my internship at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) as a Researcher in their Natural Gas Program in NYC three weeks ago. I would argue that Environmental Defense Fund’s slogan, “finding the ways that work,” accurately summarizes their overall objective as an environmental advocacy organization. EDF is unique in …
Reposted from the Poughkeepsie Journal At the U.S.-India Energy Partnership Summit, a distinguished panel, including academics, CEOs, and high-ranking government officials, discussed the barriers to technology transfer between the U.S. and India and how these barriers may be overcome in the coming years. Much of the day’s discussion centered around …
Reposted from greenbiz.com Written by Lisa Jaccoma, Bard CEP alumna ’10 From a marketing and communications standpoint, 2011 should have been a wake-up call for the cleantech industry in the U.S. We are getting our collective butts kicked in the national conversation. Yes, individual companies did well. Enough good to …
On February 17th and 18th the second year Bard CEP students got the pleasure of participating in the Pyramid 2012 challenge, organized by the ISIS Academy and led by Roberta Fernandez. The two-day workshop took us through a set of tools that we will now all be able to utilize …