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My Green Job: Chad Sanders, solar installer
Chad W. Sanders, 34, Lakewood, Colorado
What I do:
 I work for Metro Solar, a solar thermal and photovoltaic installation and service company. We specialize in solar thermal heating and high efficiency boiler systems, but also install PV (photovoltaics). Since we are one of the few companies that service old systems, the majority of the work I do is in this area. There were many solar thermal systems installed in the Denver area back in the ‘80s and Metro Solar has stayed in business maintaining these systems during the last three decades. Now that there is a renewed interested in solar we are starting to install new systems.
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Tags: · Chad W. Sanders, Colorado, Denver, Lakewood, Metro Solar, My Green Job, Photovoltaics, Solar Power, solar roof installations, solar thermal
Green Apple Festivals will kick off Earth Day in major U.S. cities
By Sommer Saadi
Green Right Now
Do not underestimate the excitement of Earth Day. Trust us. There is a lot to look forward to this year – the Green Apple Festival and Earth Day Network are making sure of it.
The two organizations have teamed up to put together the largest Earth Day festival in America. The event will take place April 17 to 19 (the weekend before the official Earth Day on April 22) and features simultaneous service events in ten major cities across the nation including New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
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Tags: · 1 House at a Time, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Earth Day Network, Green Apple Festivals, International Bird Rescue Research Center, Los Angeles, Lower East Side Ecology Center, New York City, Planet Green, Seattle, Washington
America’s least wasteful cities
Nalgene’s least wasteful city study, which was produced from a survey of 3,750 Americans in the top 25 largest cities that sought to probe their “mindset”, asking them about their green habits like whether they used public transportation and reusable grocery bags or composted and reused containers — resulted in San Francisco taking top honors as the most mindfully-least-wastefully green city:
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Tags: · Boston, Denver, Least Wasteful Cities, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nalgene, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC
Artists announced for Green Apple Festival ‘Thank You Concerts’
Photo: Green Apple Network
From Green Right Now Reports
Green Apple Festival and Earth Day Network have released the 2009 line up for the free “Green Apple Thank You Concerts” for volunteers in major cities across the country over Earth Day Weekend (April 17 through 19).
Performers at the flagship event “Earth Day on the National Mall” in [...]
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Tags: · Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Denver, Earth Day Network, Green Apple Festival, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC
Roll up your shirt sleeves on Earth Day
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Next month we celebrate Earth Day, the calendar hub of environmental action in the United States and around the globe.
The event, launched back in 1970, has enjoyed enduring life, inspiring countless mid-April tree plantings and “trash offs” No doubt many adults today remember canvassing a ditch for soda cans and paper litter sometime during their childhood.
Lately, Earth Day has been enjoying a resurgence as green aspirations break out in corporate offices, Jaycee meetings and kindergarten classrooms across the land.
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Tags: · Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Earth Day Network, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC
EPA lauds 25 U.S. cities with most Energy Star Buildings
By Harriet Blake
Green Right Now
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized 25 U.S. cities for having the most Energy Star buildings in 2008.
The top 10 are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, D.C., Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Atlanta and Seattle.
Los Angeles ranked first with 262 buildings earning the Energy Star rating, which can be applied to rehabbed and new properties. San Francisco had 194 buildings; Houston, 145; Washington D.C., 136 and Dallas, 126.
Energy Star, the EPA’s label for high efficiency, sets standards for everthing from light bulbs and appliances to buildings.
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Tags: · Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Energy Star, Galleria North Tower, Green Valley ELementary, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Houston, J.C. Penney, LEED, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seatle, U.S. Green Building Council, Washington DC
Denver revs up a program to slow down wasteful driving habits
By Laura Elizabeth May
Green Right Now
Denver drivers have seen the light. It’s on the driving dashboard that shows them their CO2 emissions.
As part of a pilot program called Driving Change, city-employed and selected citizen drivers were given feedback from their dashboards about their driving habits, which in turn, told them about their carbon emissions.
What they learned was that how they drove really did make a difference.
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Tags: · carbon dioxide emissions, Denver, Driving Change, gas mileage
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I work for Metro Solar, a solar thermal and photovoltaic installation and service company. We specialize in solar thermal heating and high efficiency boiler systems, but also install PV (photovoltaics). Since we are one of the few companies that service old systems, the majority of the work I do is in this area. There were many solar thermal systems installed in the Denver area back in the ‘80s and Metro Solar has stayed in business maintaining these systems during the last three decades. Now that there is a renewed interested in solar we are starting to install new systems.