Sustainability: Topic of a Mobile Discussion
I’m headed out in a few minutes for another hike at the same place (Gaviota, CA) I mentioned a year or so back, and with the same friend – a fellow who shares my concern for the direction in which humankind is headed vis-à-vis sustainability and our environment. He told me on New Year’s that he intends to make 2014 “a year of taking action” to forward his progressive ideals. Sounds good to me, and a fine topic for discussion as we take in the scenery.
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.
