Volunteer Day with Sensible City and The Family Resource Center
The team lends a helping hand at the Emma Family Resource Center, shutting down the community garden for the winter.
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Asheville Community Values Assessment – an invitation…
In partnership sith local civic and business leadership, Barrett Values Centre has announced We Are Asheville, a community values assessment intended to inform and empower local problem-solving, decision-making and sustainability through an understanding of our community’s shared values.
Thomas Ugo Ermacora on sustainability, urban planning process, and future
Clear Village Founder Thomas Ugo Ermacora shares his thoughts on sustainability, lengthy urban planning process, his hope for a human pace in planning through micro-urbanistic interventions and vision of resilient and empowered communities.
Techflash: Seattle’s
Frank Catalano: Having spent a February week at a major technology industry trade show, I was delighted to see key Seattle-area companies well-represented on the Austin exhibit floor. The 450 exhibitors included DreamBox, co-founded by a Microsoft veteran and now backed by Reed Hastings of Netflix;GlobalScholar, run by a former Amazon.com and Drugstore.com executive and recently [...]
Clear Village – Dynamic Dialogues in Helsingborg complete
Helsingborg is an atmospheric midsize town situated in the South-West of Sweden, there are traditional- and creative industries, developed infrastructures, public services for young and old, proximity to water and…
Clear Village kicks off Helsingborg Lab
Today, Clear Village kicks off an exciting new participative design Lab in Sweden, aimed at articulating the future cultural life of its host city, Helsingborg. Led by Clear Village and Artur Moustafa of the Helsingborg City Theatre, participants will gather background information and stimuli which…
UPDATED – New Video: Fox Business News with Eric Corey Freed of Urban Re:Vision
Urban Re:Vision Executive Director Eric Corey Freed interviewed with the Fox Business News team via satellite during the West Coast Green conference in San Francisco. Watch him keep a straight face while answering tough questions on the affordability of green.
Virtual Vehicle Company: Unlocking Green Car Data With Cell Phones
Virtual Vehicle Company, a startup that was one of the 100 finalists showing their technology at the Cleantech Open Conference on Thursday, is the first company that I’ve seen that truly uses the latest cell phone innovations to…
Bloomberg Television airs three segments covering West Coast Green Conference
In 2007 and 2008, we hosted Bloomberg at West Coast Green (world’s largest residential green building/innovation conference). The videos below are two of three segments which include interviews and footage shot on-site. Segment 1: Building a Green Home includes interviews with the same individuals on different topics, as well as Michelle Kaufmann (creator of the [...]
CBS’ Colleen Edwards: Open Season (and the Cleantech Open)
The Real Story took a road trip to San Jose to meet some of the inventors and entrepreneurs participating in the Clean Tech Open, a conference dedicated to bringing ideas together with mentoring to create viable businesses in the clean tech arena.
DOE Awards Up to $122M for Making Fuel from Sunlight
More reports coming in from the Cleantech Open National Conference: Revolutionary — that’s how the Department of Energy describes the methods for generating fuels directly from sunlight that the agency hopes will emerge from a new project in California.
Governor Quinn and Mayor Daley Open Fourth Annual Chicago Green Festival
CHICAGO – Illinois Governor Pat Quinn joined Mayor Richard M. Daley for the opening ceremony of the Fourth Annual Chicago Green Festival on Saturday, which included Quinn’s signing an amendment to the Capital Development Board Act. The updated legislation calls for the measurement, reporting and comparison of energy consumption across 10 types of buildings, for [...]