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05.23.12: Boulder, Colorado is one of a handful of U.S. cities with a Zero Waste policy, a municipal commitment to divert as much of the waste stream as possible from landfilling and incinerators. Even though Boulder has a long history of environmentalism, the state of Colorado has some of the lowest landfill tip fees in [...]

03.22.12: How much can cleantech investing change with geographic region, culture and market? Potentially, a lot. Sarah Bacon talked with two cleantech investors working in vastly different entrepreneurial landscapes, co-founder and investment director of Sustainable Technologies Fund in Stockholm André Heinz, and partner at Aquillian Investments, Bill Tarr, in San Francisco. We covered the pace of deal flow, sustainable mindsets, technologies [...]

2.24.12: NNR Producer Ben Pomeroy visits the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 300 acre industrial park in the heart of New York City which has been overhauled with solar street lamps, rainwater harvesting, and other sustainable features to accomodate 6,000 occupants. Ben talked with a handful of the Yard’s 275 tenants about their sustainable business models, [...]

2.10.12: In the latest installment of Ask The Expert, producer Ben Pomeroy visited with Emily Landsburg, CEO of Black Gold Biofuels to learn about the infrastructure scourge and energy potential of used cooking oil’s less glamorous cousin, restaurant grease trap waste. Unlike yellow grease from cooking oil, grease trap waste had no practical applications until [...]

1.18.12: Film director Larry Fessenden (pictured above) boasts a prolific career scaring people. Of all the horrors he been part of, Larry may be most frightened by what’s happening in real life on planet earth. Many of his films find their terror from present day ecological and resource crises, like climate change or water shortages. When [...]

12.16.11: Climate negotiators from around the world gathered in Durban, South Africa last week to discuss how the international community might beat back global warming. Though the United Nations Framework on Climate Change summit yielded a consensus to renew the Kyoto Protocol and fund mitigation and adaptation measures in developing nations, heavy hitters like India, China [...]