Tag: Featured Business
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How a 30-Second Video Could Land You a 5 Gyres Expedition Seat
The 5 Gyres Institute is searching for some help with a June expedition to Iceland, and a 30-to-45-second video could land you a spot on its Sea Dragon sailing vessel. Three years ago, the nonprofit organization found evidence of plastic in all five oceanic current systems as part of the world’s first global survey of plastic marine pollution. Now, the…
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144 Bipartisan Congress Members Request Wind Tax Credit Renewals
There are 80,000 people in the U.S. who are employed in the wind energy industry—an industry that has secured $105 billion in investments since 2005. At the same time, the cost to deploy the energy has dropped by 43 percent in four years and wind has risen to become the fifth-largest power source in the U.S.…
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Environmental Film Festival Avoids 151 Tons of Carbon With Wind Energy
As tourists and movie enthusiasts continue taking in a record 200 films from 38 countries over the course of 13 days at the 22nd annual Environmental Film Festival in Washington D.C., they’re doing it with the aid of wind energy. Green Power Offsets, a Houston, TX-based provider of site-specific renewable energy credits (RECs), has dontated 200,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of RECs to…
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World Water Day: How Levi Strauss Saved 770 Million Liters in Two Years
In honor of today, 2014 World Water Day, one company has decided to show just how much water it has saved in a relatively short period of time. Levi Strauss & Co. launched a new line of jeans in 2011 specifically to save water during its process. By reducing about 96 percent of the water used…
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How Wind Energy Can Conserve Europe’s Water and Save Billions
It’s no secret that multiple countries within the European Union have a strong track record in onshore and offshore wind energy. However, the latest report from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) frames the advances of wind energy around an issue that won’t disappear anytime soon—water security. EWEA’s Saving Water With Wind Energy begins with statistics…