The Business Environmental Program provides free and confidential environmental management assistance to business and government operations in Nevada. The Program specializes in cost effective strategies to reduce hazardous materials and waste generation, conserve water and energy, minimize air emissions, and maintain compliance with environmental requirements. The program provides training, on-site consultation, assistance over the phone and through its website and publications.
“Understand and Benefit from the Green Trend” Learn more about the biggest trend in the building and retrofit industry in a fast paced, interesting seminar from an industry expert who is in demand as a speaker. Speaker: Barbara Collins is a Senior Building Science Consultant with ERH West, a company that specializes in green consulting,...
The following is a guest post by Edward Quevedo, Esq of Paladin Law. and Leilani C. Latimer or Sabre Holdings. It concerns work done by 3p’s new sponsor, Dominican University’s Green MBA program. You can look forward to a new series of posts by Dominican in the coming weeks. Can Green Teams help companies innovate...
The National Academies’ America’s Energy Future project aims to stimulate and inform a constructive national dialogue about the nation’s energy future. With a sustained national commitment, the United States could achieve considerable energy-efficiency improvements, acquire new sources of energy supply, and effect substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through the accelerated development and deployment of...
The Drug Enforcement Administration and government, community, public health and law enforcement partners today announced a nationwide prescription drug “Take-Back” initiative that seeks to prevent increased pill abuse and theft. DEA will be collecting potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs for destruction at sites nationwide o n Saturday, September 25th from 10 a.m....
ScienceDaily (Aug. 18, 2010) — The concentrations of toxic nitrogen oxide that are present in German cities regularly exceed the maximum permitted levels. That’s now about to change, as innovative paving slabs that will help protect the environment are being introduced. Coated in titanium dioxide nanoparticles, they reduce the amount of nitrogen oxide in the...
Americans are using less energy overall and making more use of renewable energy resources, according to a report released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). According to the report, the U.S. used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. There also was a decline in natural gas...
Chamber Energy Forum Flyer Sept 14, 2010
Please make plans to attend the Nevada Woody Biomass Collaborative’s teleconference/meeting on Thursday, September 2, 2010, from 2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. We will be meeting in Ely, Las Vegas and Carson City at UNR’s Cooperative Extension Offices (addresses below). We will be fortunate to have the USFS’s leading authority on the Fuel’s For Schools...
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