The Sustainable Business Incubator

The untimely demise of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology means that there is no longer an official “approval” for science and technology incubators in New Jersey. Nor is there — this year at least — any state funding. New Jersey’s 14 incubators, members of NJBIN, have been left to fend for themselves, [...]

What a Way to Go is the strongest statement yet of the multiple crises that are facing us as a planet and as a species today. It differs from the other major documentaries we’ve seen recently – Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour, in several important ways – both in [...]

October 23, 2007
7:30 am ET – 6:00 pm ET
Hyatt Regency of New Brunswick, NJ
Two Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
New Jersey is a “perfect storm” for bioenergy development – urban density, abundant transportation and shipping infrastructure, land available for sighting plants, and ready access to a large market. Feedstocks from municipal and commercial wastes – such [...]

September 27 & 28
Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick
This year’s conference offers information on clean energy strategies for businesses and municipalities and includes a Municipal Track, a day (9/27) devoted to providing municipalities with tools and information specific to their needs. The second day includes awards, keynote address by Ted Turner and workshops on some of the [...]

Attending this week’s Clean Energy Conference and Leadership Awards, at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, New Jersey, left me wondering if we are really ready to cope with the climate change crisis. And New Jersey is now in the lead – along with California – in mandating significant carbon reduction targets. But if there [...]

… and some serious business opportunities, e.g., http://www.climatetrust.org/solicitations_2007_RFP.php, and

In The Black: The Growth of the Low Carbon Economy highlights the startling growth generated by the companies active in renewable energy, biofuels, the manufacture of energy-smart products and low carbon vehicles, and the emerging clean energy and carbon trading markets. These companies – and the growth [...]

State rebates cut installation costs
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 07/30/07
BY REBECCA SANTANA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOPEWELL — When it comes to the environment, New Jersey’s image is one of a gloomy, chemical, toxic mess — a polluted wasteland where it would be easy for Tony Soprano to dispose of [...]

by Jon S. Corzine, Governor, State of New Jersey – Editorial July 8, 2007
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 ”Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will support our economic growth strategy by creating markets for efficient and clean energy technologies and by spurring technical innovation and job growth. Moving aggressively now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will also place New Jersey’s [...]