Responding to the need for community venues for the arts, the nonprofit Place is building green artist residences and community developments throughout the country. Their newly completed Working Artist Ventura (or WAV) LEED building is a bold plan that mixes arts, community, economy and sustainability into a single development. WAV also offers a residence for homeless families, a retail and arts center, and upscale lofts. The dynamic program includes a jazz club, a movie theater, an art gallery, studios, a cafe, and restaurants. Most importantly, WAV is a community for arts of all genres.Read ...
It's been exactly a year since Walmart's historic launch of a Sustainability Index and other measures to assess suppliers and products and, remarkably, the sun still rises in the East and sets in the West.As I stated in my analysis that day July ...
This post was written by Rob Reed. He is the founder of MomentFeed, a location-based marketing, strategy, and technology firm. Location technologies are transforming how we experience, navigate, and ultimately better our world. From the global to ...
By John Addison (7/26/10)Solar energy growth continues its strong growth. For the 30 years from 1979 to 2009, solar energy has grown 33 % CAGR (compound average growth rate). For this decade, over 40 percent is forecast. Although 2009 was hurt by a s...
