Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
GOAL Site makes formal Presentation to Mayor’s Forum on Jobs
Foundation President, Marc Dreyfors, presented to Mayor Bill Bell’s forum on job creation, a part of the national effort by the White House and the Obama Administration to receive feedback to help form public policy.
“Green Infrastructure is Critical to Creative Class Communities!”
Green Infrastructure (not to be confused with green technologies) is essential to developing sustainable communities. Durham is already widely recognized as a center for the creative class, a contemporary name for “knowledge” workers. These aren’t just jobs for artists but all jobs that require thinking and/or creating for a living, e.g. researchers, doctors, lawyers, etc. ...Read more.
Freightliner Custom Chassis (FCCC): State-of-the-art in truck design?
Triangle Clean Cities hosted a tour of the Gaffney, SC Freightliner truck chassis facility, owned by Daimler. The chassis were going into a range of vehicles, and the engineers we met were using the designs for the basis of hybrid and alternative fuel systems.
Critique of White House “Green Jobs Report”
The following is a critique of “The White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families: Green Jobs Report,” convened by Vice President Joe Biden. It is an excellent document and in it are the words and conceptual models needed for the The Green Jobs Movement’s success. It also is missing some things.
Join Us: TFF and Greenway Head to DC Inauguration
Greenway Transit will be offering a completely green tour package to Washington, DC for the January 20th Inauguration, as well as taking its fleet of people powered pedicabs to DC to help folks get around on the Mall for the week before the event.
Big Fall for Foundation and Friends
2008 was a tough year for The Forest Foundation, Forests of the World, Carolina Biodiesel and Greenway Transit. Forests of the World sales dropped dramatically in 2008 and we decided to back out of Fall tradeshows because of the rising costs, slowing economy and inability to gain enough value in the products to cover ...Read more.
Tale of Two Cities
Mary Katherine and Marc finally took a well-needed vacation at the end of November, visiting Prague and Bolzano in the Dolomites in northern Italy. There are a lot of cool things we can learn from our European neighbors, so read on.
Green Oil Campus/Ecolounge: Solar Hot Air Workshop
The Ecolounge hosted another successful workshop, attended by over 40 folks, presented by Rebekah and Stephen Hren.
Mary Katherine and Marc Receive Sustainability Champions Award
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Sustainable North Carolina Recognizes Five Individuals as “Sustainability Champions”
Raleigh, NC – October 28, 2008 – Sustainable North Carolina (SNC) has announced that it is honoring five individuals for outstanding achievements in promoting social responsibility and environmental stewardship in business.
While this is the 7th annual Sustainable North Carolina Awards program, this ...Read more.
Climate Catastrophe: A Correspondence between the Entrenched Right and Bitter Left
Hi Folks:
Here is an exchange I had with the COO of a right-wing think tank that promotes “free markets” and negates climate change. It’s a compelling read. I am not sure if the time spent made an impact. According to NY Times article citing psychological research on politics and climate change, humans tend to want ...Read more.