What it Takes to LEED
4.30.12: Seven World Trade Center, the Empire State Building, and 41 Cooper Square are all LEED certified. LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a point-based rating system established by the U.S. Green Building Council to drive energy and resource efficiency innovation in the construction and building industry. LEED certification has become a proxy mission statement for energy [...]
Two Clean Tech Venture Capital Investors Talk Shop
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 [...]
Cradle to Cradle at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
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, [...]
There’s Gold in that Grease Trap!
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 [...]
Meet a Super Fund Site: The Gowanus Canal
10.28.11: Last year the Gowanus Canal was designated a Super Fund site by the Environmental Protection Agency in order to remove the chemicals, heavy metals and volatile organics from what that agency called, “one of the most extensively contaminated waterways in the nation”. Producer Ben Pomeroy visited the Gowanus and the surrounding neighborhood to learn [...]
