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, [...]

Fairleigh Dickinson University and Citi Foundation Partner with Woodbridge Township to Develop Green Technology Park & Incubator
Woodbridge, NJ (November 9, 2009) — Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Citi Foundation are pleased to partner with Woodbridge Township in its redevelopment of a Brownfield site to create the Pennval Road Green Technology Park. TheGreen Technology Park, which [...]

(Crossposted at http://greenventuresconference.org/?p=458)
We’ve just released our March Newsletter for the Sustainable Business Incubator, updating our growing network of colleagues and friends about the May Conference, and listing a number of related events leading up to it. Here’s an expanding version, with some of the materials we could not include in the PDF version, for those [...]

“Growing the Next Generation of Green Ventures”

Sustainable Entrepreneurship Symposium and Expo
An NCIIA Invention to Venture Workshop
for faculty, students, and the business community
Friday, May 2, 2008, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Followed by a networking reception 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
and Green Enterprise Showcase

The presentation from this event is now available here.

“Demystifying Carbon Markets”
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 7:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Lenfell Hall, the Mansion (Hennessy Hall)
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Madison, NJ
Featuring Speaker: Lawrence Pratt
Associate Director of the Latin American Center for Competitiveness
& Sustainable Development (CLACDS)
Professor, Masters Degree and Executive Education Programs
INCAE University, Costa Rica

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

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 [...]

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 [...]