2011 Energy Star Emerging Technology Award Winners Reuse Wasted Energy

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This series is made possible by energy-efficiency specialists WellHome and their Home Weatherization Giveaway Sweepstakes. Take a quick visual quiz of your home’s energy use to see your potential yearly savings. Hurry! For your shot at a grand prize of $2500 in energy efficiency upgrades, enter by March 20! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [...]

OPOWER’s Innovative Approach Uses Behavioral Science to Save Energy

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This series is made possible by energy-efficiency specialists WellHome and their Home Weatherization Giveaway Sweepstakes. Take a quick visual quiz of your home’s energy use to see your potential yearly savings. Hurry! For your shot at a grand prize of $2500 in energy efficiency upgrades, enter by March 20! OPOWER is an industry leader in [...]

Rising Sun Energy Center: Opening Doors to Greener Horizons

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This series is made possible by energy-efficiency specialists WellHome and their Home Weatherization Giveaway Sweepstakes. Take a quick visual quiz of your home’s energy use to see your potential yearly savings. Hurry! For your shot at a grand prize of $2500 in energy efficiency upgrades, enter by March 20! It’s not everyday you hear: “Sign [...]

For What Its Worth

Tangible & Intangible Values, Image Credit: John Friedman

From the editor: This is a guest post by John Friedman, an award-winning communicator and CSR practitioner. Through this engaging post John conveys how businesses, big and small can create “real” value and “sustain” themselves through touch economic times. In a market-driven economy, value is based on perception rather than a systematic formula so that [...]

Navigating the Waters of Mission and Profit with Criterion Ventures

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A common dilemma for social entrepreneurs is the choice between and within for-profit and non-profit legal structures. Everyone in our field knows how artificial the for/non-profit line can seem when you’re an entrepreneur trying to change the world, while (hopefully) supporting yourself and dependents in order to make your efforts sustainable over time. But tax [...]