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LEED Certification and EV Charging Stations: What you need to know

Blink Charging

Meet ENERGY STAR criteria and have features like load management and flexible pricing. LEED can be applied to newly designed, built, or renovated commercial buildings, homes, neighborhoods, and even entire cities. LEED’s stated goal is to help create buildings that: Reduce contribution to global climate change.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future?

Store 84
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California ARB approves cap-and-trade amendments; linking with Ontario

Green Car Congress

AB 617 directs CARB to work with local air districts on the deployment of community-focused air quality monitoring networks, as well as the development and implementation of community emission reduction plans in the neighborhoods most burdened by poor air quality. California is on track to achieve its 2020 goal.

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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

EV Match

In partnership with Community Charging, headed by Vanessa Perkins, and funded by the Keeling Curve Prize for Global Warming Mitigation (which we were proud to receive last summer), EVmatch has a new publicly-available charging station located at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. And there’s a 20% price jump between second and first tier panels. I’m seeing the prices drop on most panels I monitor.

Solar 210
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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. But as of this spring, the average new vehicle sold in America—across everything from large pickup trucks to small economy hatchbacks—the average transaction price was $42,000. You have to do it on a global scale.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. But as of this spring, the average new vehicle sold in America—across everything from large pickup trucks to small economy hatchbacks—the average transaction price was $42,000. You have to do it on a global scale.