By MELINDA TUHUS Images from my 12-day Walk for Appalachia’s Future Of all the indelible images from my 12-day Walk for Appalachia’s Future along the...
Archive for tag: Environment

Climate Crisis Pushes Migratory Monarch Butterflies Onto Endangered List
By JAKE JOHNSON The International Union for Conservation of Nature [in July] formally listed the beloved migratory monarch butterfly as endangered, citing dire threats...

Planet’s Vital Signs Are Reaching Dangerous ‘Tipping Points’ Amid Climate Crisis, Scientists Warn
By Julia Conley “We need to stop treating the climate emergency as a stand-alone issue—global heating is not the sole symptom of our...

Ballon de Paris: Taking Climate and Weather Monitoring Off the Ground
By MIRIAM ACZEL Paris—that beautiful city of cheese and wine, boat rides and picnics along the Seine, museums and breathtaking architecture—and what better way...

Amsterdam: Towards an Environmental Paradise?
By MIRIAM ACZEL The Dutch capital Amsterdam is widely known for being a bicyclist’s paradise. Biking safety levels are the highest in the world—in stark...

Preserving Legends to Protect the Environment
By MIRIAM ACZEL The Mekong River, one of the longest river systems in Asia—and twelfth longest in the world–flows through six countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand,...

Building Gardens and Communities with Alfrea
By JANINE FINNELL, Founder and Clean Energy Ambassador, Leaders in Energy I recently had the pleasure of giving an introduction and welcome on the website...

First “Leaders in Energy Without Borders” Google Hangout Session
By SILVIA LEAHU-ALUAS Janine Finnell, Adriaan Kamp, and Silvia Leahu-Aluas, three sustainability and energy professionals and members of the Leaders in Energy group, have started...

Managing difficult change in large energy organizations: Catching up with Josh Silverman
By TRAVIS HIGH, Leaders in Energy Leaders in Energy’s 4 Generations (4 Gen) event is a celebration of multigenerational achievement in sustainability. Last year was...
The Currency of Entrepreneurship is Connections
Leaders in Energy recently co-hosted an Energy Technology ”Petting Zoo” with Potential Energy DC, an energy incubator, in Tyson’s Corner, in the Metro Washington, DC area. It was an exciting evening with numerous energy and environmental entrepreneurs displaying their business products and technologies. These ranged from an “Iron Goat” that cuts and pelletizes biomass feedstocks, including grass, to Yuck Old Paint, LLC™, which is the first and only company in the mid-Atlantic region that offers a green service to safely remove and dispose of old cans of paint from commercial and residential properties in an eco-friendly manner, to battery energy storage devices (Tumalow, Ecocell), and more.
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