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We are all quite proud of my daughter, Jess, who works in advertising in New York City.  She’s 24, broke, and works on the top floor of a Fifth Avenue sky scraper right next to the Empire State Building.
And she does cool work.  Her firm, Green Team, focuses on what they call the “Awakening Consumer,” [...]

The Earthbark Movement kicked off earlier this month, launching a website www.earthbark.com designed to empower eco-friendly dog owners and pet friendly businesses with the a goal to help you reduce your carbon “pawprint”.

Earthbark raises awareness of dogs’ impact on our planet and gives dog owners the tools and information to minimize their impact on the [...]

Scott Shore was an intern with us last semester.  He is off to his next adventure, and we are grateful for his time with us.  Here is what he wrote about his time at Piedmont:

For the last three months, I have been an intern at Piedmont Biofuels.  Rather than just providing a standard journal with [...]

This past September, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order directing the California Air Resources Board to adopt regulations increasing California’s energy from renewable sources to 33% by 2020 and 20% by 2010.

On December 18 the states regulators approved a request by Southern California Edison to construct a 173 mile long electricity transmission line [...]

It went from Copenhagen to “Hopenhagen” to in the end “Brokenhagen”.

The UN climate change conference in Copenhagen is still going on after world leaders jetted in over the past few days and reached a “Copenhagen Accord” that was agreed by the US, China, South Africa and India, however as early as this morning it is [...]

Will they or wont they?

With only a few hours left to write and agree on a deal, that question is still largely unanswered. Or is it?

The better question should be, will the deal be substantial, or as it is suggested be a “political deal” promising to meet and to further discuss the issue again [...]

The possibility of agreement in Copenhagen is all but lost. As world leaders arrived at the UN Climate Change Conference, there ultimately may be nothing for them to vote on.

As protestors outside the Bella Convention Centre were doused in pepper spray beaten with batons and 230 of them arrested and detained, inside negotiators still [...]

The UN Climate Change Conference is entering the decisive phase, as heads of state and government begin to arrive for the final few days of negotiations.

While UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is saying the leaders are facing a “defining moment in history”. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, offers a more sobering assessment stating the [...]