Tag Archives: energy conservation

Campus Sustainability Reports from Across the Nation

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education : Wednesday May 16, 11:56AM

The following is from one of our guest bloggers, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. You can see the original post, with pictures, here . This has been re-posted … More »

Alliance for Sustainable Colorado featured in Colorado Real Estate Journal

Megan Moore : Tuesday April 17, 4:54PM

The Alliance's collaborative partnership with Greenprint Denver and Living City Block on the Better Buildings Denver initiative was recently featured in the Colorado Real Estate Journal's April 18-May 1 … More »

REMPC and Topping Out

Michael Kirk : Friday March 16, 12:00PM

February 13, 2012 was a special day for Larimer County. The Board of County Commissioners joined staff to celebrate the Topping Out of the new 53,000 square foot Alternative Sentencing Department (ASD) … More »

Kick-Starting 2012 Roundtables with Sustainable Business!

Zach Owens : Tuesday March 13, 4:49PM

With Spring arriving, the smell of business sustainability is in the air! Next week CORE is hosting the 2012 Sustainable Opportunities Summit , which promises exciting keynotes from John Viera, Director of … More »

A Different Kind of Fort to See in Fort Collins

Kim Hughes : Thursday February 9, 5:02PM

On February 7, a few of us Alliance staff members pushed through the small winter storm that was hitting Denver and headed North for Fort Collins. Yes, the weather was nicer up there, but our real purpose was … More »

Better Buildings Challenge Comes to Denver

Phillip Saieg : Monday February 6, 2:24PM

In December of 2011, President Barack Obama announced that the United States will be upgrading the energy efficiency of America s buildings because it is one of the fastest, easiest, and cheapest ways to … More »

REMPC and the New Year

Michael Kirk : Friday February 3, 1:59PM

Happy 2012 and thanks again for supporting the Regional Energy Master Plan Consortium (REMPC). The first goal for the new year is to have stakeholders from each of the energy sector groups choose … More »

Green Certifications Lead to Sustainable Businesses

Jason Page : Thursday October 27, 2:57PM

I attended the Downtown Denver Partnership s (DDP) Member Forum last Thursday, October 20, 2011 which was held at the Embassy Suite s new LEED certified building. The Forum, Certifiably Green: Local … More »

Betting on Big Hits in Energy Efficiency

Rebecca Cantwell : Friday September 30, 8:33AM

Energy efficiency has moved into the big leagues of energy resources and is entering the playoffs as a key competitor to fossil fuels for utilities across the United States. But with the dramatic growth in … More »

Serious Money for Energy Efficiency

Tom Prugh : Wednesday September 21, 3:03PM

Getting lots of coverage in the media ( see Climate Progress , for instance, and the same story cross-posted to Grist ) is the news that two California pension funds and an investment consortium assembled … More »

Corporate Carbon Progress and Profits

Tom Prugh : Friday September 16, 2:09PM

The Climate Post includes an item this week on a new report from the Carbon Disclosure Project revealing that two-thirds of companies responding to a survey of the world's 500 biggest public corporations … More »

Fort Collins proves that “carbon-emission cuts and a high quality of life can co-exist”

Kim Hughes : Wednesday August 17, 4:29PM

This week, the City of Fort Collins received great acclaim by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability for being named one of top cities in the nation in regard to cutting carbon emissions. Fort Collin's … More »

CAFE Whipping Boy

Tom Prugh : Monday August 15, 10:32AM

People love to beat up on EPA's corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) standards, probably because drivers rarely get anywhere near the kind of miles per gallon the window stickers suggest they should. The … More »

A “must do” on your personal sustainability checklist!

Anna Zawisza : Monday August 15, 10:19AM

Last week, my fiance and I let a complete stranger into our home. He invaded every corner of the house, opening closets, going up into the attic, and actually sucking the air out of our hose with strange … More »
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