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Are Zero Waste Communities A Viable Option for Achieving Sustainability in The United States?

By Aysu Katun on January 21, 2010 5 Comments Austin, Berkeley, Boulder, Canberra, desalination, diversion, diversion rate, federal plan, General Motors, GrassRoots Recycling Network, Hewlett-Packard, incentive, Kamikatsu, landfill, landfill-free, Lord Norman Foster, Los Angeles, Masdar City, monorail, NIKE, policy reform, recycle, recycling rate, repair, reuse, San Francisco, Seattle, solar power, waste processing, waste reduction, zero carbon, zero waste communities, zero waste goal, Zero Waste International Alliance, zero-waste

Are Zero Waste Communities A Viable Option for Achieving Sustainability in The United States?

Imagine a world where the concept of “waste” does not exist. A world in which nothing gets discarded, every industrial product gets reassembled into something useful, each unit of energy is offset and anything and everything is a renewable resource. This is the design principle and environmental philosophy of “zero waste”.

100 Private Companies That Lead in GoingGreen

By Tracey de Morsella on October 8, 2009 2 Comments 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, AlwaysOn, AquaCritox, battery manufacturing, Best Early Venture Award, biodiesel, BioFuelBox, Biofuels Digest, biomass, biorefineries, biorefinery, Biotech and Agriculture, Bridge Bank, BrightSource, CA, Calera, California, cement, clean energy, Clean Energy Entrepreneur of the Year Competition, Clean Manufacturing and Clean Products, coal, Coda, Coda Automotive, Colorado, desalination, Edison, Editor’s Choice Award for Most Revolutionary Technology, electricity, energy efficiency, Energy Innovator Award, Energy Management, Energy Storage System, FOG, Global Cleantech 100 list, GoingGreen, GoingGreen 100, GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies of 2009, Goodwin Procter, Green Automobiles & Transportation, Green Buildings & Green Nano/Micro-Tech, Green Materials, Green Rankings, greenhouse gas emissions. GHG, HelioVolt, Houston, innovation, KPMG, Lakewood, Los Gatos, low-speed vehicles, MA, MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship, MacArthur Foundation, Manatt, Marin Soljačić, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Menlo Park, Morgan Stanley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Newsweek, Next Energy Innovators, NREL, Porous Power, Red Herring Top 100 Global Company, Resource Recovery & Waste Management, Revolution Partners, San Jose, Santa Monica, sewage sludge while concurrently producing energy with the extracted wastes. The Ireland-based firm as a, Silicon Valley Bank, smart grid, solar energy, solar panels, solar thermal processes, sustainability, The Artimis Project, turbine engine, TX, ultra-thin lithium batteries, US Department of Energy, wastewater, Water Technology & Treatment, Watertown, wet waste, Wilson Heat Exchanger, Wilson TurboPower, wireless, WiTricity, Woburn, Zeachem

The AlwaysOn Network recently announced their Third Annual List of the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies of 2009. The award recognizes the top private greentech companies that are creating new business opportunities and transforming the world’s largest industries to improve sustainability.Among the hundreds of companies evaluated, They selected the Oakland California-based, Brightsource Energy, a provider of solar energy to utility companies, as the overall winner.