Sustainability
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Celebration of Life: The Story of My Volt
I eyed the Volt since it was a concept car in ’08 before finally leasing my “dream car” in December 2012. An influential builder donated funds to his alma mater to build a solar parking canopy with an EV charging station on campus, and our company built the array and installed the station. At the…
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Monitoring Energy in LEED Platinum Building
The William A Kerr Foundation’s office in downtown St. Louis was one of the first LEED-Platinum Certified buildings in St. Louis. The facility, which is approximately a mile north of the Gateway Arch, was purchased in 2004 in a largely abandoned industrial area, and received a $2M renovation earning 5/5 points for its Innovation and…
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Movie Review: Where to Invade Next
Last night we watched Where to Invade Next, a film by Michael Moore. While many people disregard Moore as a provocative liberal, he identifies a number of policies and programs that other countries have implemented that seem very enviable and ideal. Moore travels to nine largely European countries under the ruse of an invader attempting…
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My Volt Love Story
When I saw the first production design Volt in 2008, I was fascinated. It was a great looking car, and the idea of running on electricity was particularly alluring. Now, if the truth be told, I had not been a fan of GM since I was a kid coveting the Camaro or many other of…
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Film Review: Merchants of Doubt
“We’re the negative force—we’re just trying to stop stuff.” – Marc Morano, Executive Director of ClimateDepot.com, a leading site for climate change skeptics. This quote sums up the theme of Merchants of Doubt, a hard-hitting and at times discouraging documentary which details the campaign to discredit scientific climate research. Morano is one of those talking…
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Disruptive Innovations in the Energy Industry
This is an exciting time in the energy industry, unless you work for an electric utility company. Just like changes that happened in the telecom industry not too long ago, these utilities are in for a shake-up. The three-prong disruptive forces of electric vehicles, solar photovoltaics (PV), and energy storage are combining to create a…
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