The Sustainable Business Incubator

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 [...]

THE HEAT IS ON…. What to do now?
Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions
A day of discussion and workshops on energy and climate change strategies for New Jersey
Friday, October 12, 2007
9 am- 4 pm
The Conference Center at Mercer County College
West Windsor

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 [...]

Thursday September 20, 8:30 am -12 pm
Trenton Marriott, 1 West Lafayette Street, Trenton

Shrinking your town’s carbon footprint depends to a large degree on successfully working with the press to inform, engage, educate and persuade the public about how to address the issues.
To help you do that, ANJEC and the New Jersey Press Association (NJPA) will [...]

The 11th Hour is clearly a movie that needed to be made – and needs to be widely seen – and Leonardo DiCaprio has done a creditable job in lending his talents and star presence to the effort. Yet in some ways, and perhaps not least in the marketing of it, it still pulls [...]

… 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 [...]

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 [...]