This holiday season– learn how to use your purchasing power to save money and make a positive impact in the lives of those in your local community, as well as those around the globe. The key to making a difference is simple: Become a Conscious Consumer. It’s true, you can help your community—and…
Global Green Consumers Summit: Speakers Announced! The U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce our speaker list for our Global Green Consumers Summit. The summit begins December 5th, so be sure to sign up today! Click here to sign up! Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of Jacques- Yves Cousteau and National Geographic Emerging…
U.S. Green Chamber President Irene M. Stillings will perform moderation duties at Sustainable Solutions, a panelist event on November 14th, 2012 at UC San Diego. Sustainable Solutions will bring together innovators in sustainable practices to share their unique solutions for making long-term sustainability a reality in homes, small businesses, and throughout the United States. Irene…
Okay, let’s be honest here, a Locavore Challenge is a great idea, but much easier said than done. I cheated on day one and have continued to do so every day thereafter. I blame this on a characteristic that has been rooted in me since birth. I am what you call a “social-eater”, in other…
Is this the beginning of the end for batteries? Researchers in the UK have invented a power generating device that straps to your leg and harvests electricity through the motion of your knees. The biomechanical energy harvester could signal the eventual end of our dependence on batteries to power our mobile electronics, in addition to…
Animal waste may become our next source of green energy. Private corporations in the U.K. have begun investing big bucks to convert leftover food and animal byproducts into a new source of green energy that produces electricity and cuts costs. Marketplace BBC World Service recently reported that big U.K. chains such as Walmart and Tesco…
Let’s face it, everybody dies. Last October, Earthlings reached a staggering population of 7 billion hungry inhabitants. Meanwhile various estimates speculate that our world will indefinitely sustain a global community of no more than 4 to 16 billion Homo sapiens. Our numbers continue to grow at an alarming rate, igniting urgency to favor renewable rituals…
It was a cold rainy day in San Diego, but not letting that get the better of us we headed to the Museum of Photographic Arts in the Balboa Park Museum district. In what was a welcome coincidence, the Infinite Balance exhibition was being held and is the first U.S. presentation of artists shortlisted for…
Over the next three to four decades, humankind must bring about a fundamental technological overhaul of production processes worldwide to end poverty and avert the likely catastrophic impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, the United Nations says in a new report. Major investments will be needed worldwide in the development and scaling up of…