Sustainability and the Arc of the Moral Universe
During a 30-minute drive I took earlier today, I had the pleasure of listening to a 1964 talk that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered at the Baccalaureate sermon at the commencement exercises for Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, which included that fabulous line: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” For what it’s worth, this quote has a long and very interesting history, an article on which is linked above.
Regardless of its history, we’d all like to believe that its message is, in fact, true, insofar as it forms the basis of our optimism – at least our hope – that humankind can somehow find its way to a just, kind, and sustainable world. (more…)
In the world of sustainable lumber certification, a lot of hard knocks have been traded between various organizations, mainly over the issue of acceptance by the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, the current standard in green building certification. As of 2014, the only organization that the LEED program 
Hyundai has been developing alternative-fuel vehicles for a long time, and has been offering several electric and hybrid models for a while now, which have made them one of the leaders in green vehicles. In recent years, they have been developing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, which are considered to be cleaner, more efficient, and have better range than other types of alternative vehicles. 
Today everybody is talking about green cleaning. This is a process that involves using eco-friendly ingredients for the preparation of cleaning products. If you want to keep fresh water clean and toxic-free, you need to consider green cleaning.
In this day and age, as we consider climate change, global warming, and other scientific phenomenon, we’re all looking for ways to help reduce our carbon footprint.
I’m delighted to announce that a razor-sharp graduate student at USC, Nikita Rao, will be joining us at 2GreenEnergy as an intern. Her master’s program focused on the electric power industry, a topic that I know we’d all like to understand better, and she’ll be researching and writing on a variety of related topics.
