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UK Supplies 1440 Million Liters of Biofuel in 2011 - INFOGRAPHIC

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Infographic provided by Staveley Head

State of the Smart Grid - Podcast

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

A long overdue, but informative look at how the smart grid is evolving and the challenges the industry faces as it works to get to scale. Listen as Drew Johnston, Smart Grid Development and Deployment Consultant at Landis+Gyr, explains the current state of the marketplace, challenges utilities face in modifying their business models to help minimize customer's use of energy and how pilot projects throughout the country are showing great promise.

Black and White and Green All Over

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

I recently had the opportunity to work with Dell to give away one of their new 'Green' printers to Green Collar's social media following. It was a great experience and a lot of fun, especially considering this was no simple inkjet home printer, but instead an enterprise-level, four-color, network laser printer meant to be a workhorse for small and medium sized businesses.

This was evidenced by the fact that the Dell 5130cdn Color Laser printer arrived on a palette! I h [...]

What the Frack Is Going On?

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100

If you're like me, you've been watching the Natural Gas Fracking situation unfold like a slow motion train wreck, devastating large parts of the country. The concept is that the gas companies buy drilling rights on people's property (which is very attractive for the landowner's because they get some good coin!), then the gas companies pump massive amounts of water and chemicals way underground to crack (or fracture - hence frack) the earth in order to release natural gas depos [...]

Moving Beyond the Automobile - Meet the Superbus

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Very cool new high speed electric "bus" from Holland. I'd like to see more about how to get in and out of it, but I would like to take a ride on one of these at 150 mph!

Moving Beyond the Automobile

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100

I just ran across this site, thanks to SmartPlanet . It is by Streetfilms.org and is called Moving Beyond the Automobile . It has excellent, high quality short films educating you on proven methods for streamlining municipal transportation and he [...]

Peak Oil Has Arrived - 10 years ago

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Don't take my word for it, take the word of Exxon-Mobile, the world's largest publicly-traded oil company. In an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday titled Exxon Struggles to Find New Oi l, states:

In its closely watched annual financial report released Tuesday, the company said that for every 100 barrels it has pumped out of the earth over the past decade, it has replaced only 95.

It's a [...]

Water in Business - The Next Sustainability Frontier

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100

In this interview with Dr. Neno Duplan, the CEO and founder of Locus Technologies , we discuss the current thinking and approach to water in today's business landscape. Locus, is a leadi [...]

Green Job Seekers - 5 Tips For Creating an Eco-Conscious Personal Brand

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

5 Tips for Creating an Eco-Conscious Personal Brand

If you are interested in pursuing a green career or looking for a company that espouses green practices, you've hit on a growing demand cycle. To properly leverage all the new opportunities out there, you not only need to have the required skills, but the right attitude and "brand". Employers are looking for professionals who not only bring high energy, but a real devotion to green philosophies. This shouldn't come as a surp [...]

Calculating ROI For Your Solar Project - Part IV of IV

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Part 4 in a series of 4 posts from Dr. Nicole Peill-Moelter, the Director of Environmental Sustainability at Akamai, in which she documents what she learned while deploying a solar system on her home in California.

Calculating Your Effective PV KWH Rate [...]

Financing Solar For Your Home - Part 3 of 4

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Part 3 in a series of 4 posts from Dr. Nicole Peill-Moelter, the Director of Environmental Sustainability at Akamai, in which she documents what she learned while deploying a solar system on her home in California. This segment covers financing options for solar systems, buy vs. lease and rebate and tax considerations. This is great stuff...thanks Nicole.

Financing Options

Now that you're nearly ready to call the sales rep, let's look at various [...]

Buying Solar For Your Home - Part 2 of 4

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Part 2 in a series of 4 posts from Dr. Nicole Peill-Moelter, the Director of Environmental Sustainability at Akamai, in which she documents what she learned while deploying a solar system on her home in California. This segment covers sizing your system, connecting to the grid, net metering and various other electricity related mysteries. Thanks again Nicole!

How to Size Your Solar System

One of the initial steps in purchasing a PV system is estimatin [...]

How to Buy Solar For Your Home - Part 1 of 4

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

We are happy to welcome back Dr. Nicole Peill-Moelter, the Director of Environmental Sustainability at Akamai, to Green Collar. Since we last we spoke with Nicole, she has deployed a Solar PV system on her home in California. [...]

Green Collar's Sister Company Helping B2B Companies Generate More Leads, Sales On-Line

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Green Collar Media's sister company, FuelDog, Inc., has been a recognized leader in social media, on-line B2B solutions and marketing and sales automation since 1997. The results they have been generating for their clients have been so impressive that we felt we had to FuelDog-Inbound-Marketing-Solutions

New England Patriots - A Green Business Success Story

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100

This interview with Jim Nolan, the SVP of Finance, Administration and Operations for the Kraft Entertainment Group (they own the New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, the New England Revolution soccer team and Patriot's Place) i [...]

SolarOne Interview - Off the Grid Lighting Providing Lower Total Cost of Ownership

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100

In this interview with Channing Page of SolarOne Solutions, Inc., we review the state of the art in exterior solar lighting and what it can mean to businesses, municipalities and institutions. If you are a l [...]

Seawater to Hydrogen to Energy...No Electricity Needed

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100

So I don't often write about brand new research, as Green Collar generally focuses on green products that are already in the market solving problems for businesses, but this is very interesting.

Chemical engineers from Purdue have defined a way to release the hydrogen from seawater. According to SmartPlanet's summation of how it works:

using 90 percent bulk aluminum and 10 percent liquid metal alloy, consisting of gallium, indium and tin. The galliu [...]

First Measure, Then Save. Interview with Hara: Energy & Environmental Management Software

kevin@greencollarmedia.com — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Listen to the Full Interview!

One of our favorite sayings at Green Collar is "You can't improve what you can't measure". That is why we were so excited for this interview with Amit Chaterjee, CEO of Hara. Hara is the leading and fastest growing provider of