-Aptera Motors (California) producing hybrid and fully electric
vehicles that are highly aerodynamic and built of lightweight composite materials. The hybrid version gets
300 miles per gallon.
-AquaBuoy – there is a wave power test project off of Puget Sound, Washington
that is using buoys to capture the motion of the waves to generate electricity
-Biomimicry Institute
– copying the traits in nature to more efficiently design products, such as Velcro designed to imitate burrs from plants.
-Blue Spruce Dairy Farm - Anaerobic Digesters collect the methane released from the breakdown of farm animal
waste and burn it for heat and electricity.
-Cape Wind Project (Cape Cod, Massachusetts)
-EcoLawn (Coldwater, Ontario) maker of EcoLawn grass seed, which produces a natural
lawn that needs no watering, fertilizer, pesticides and grows slowly minimizing the need to mow.
-Fenway Park
(Boston, MA) The nation's oldest ballpark has taken on the challenge of being more sustainable by instituting green initiatives.
-General Motors (Detroit, Michigan) developing the Chevy Volt, the electric car they
claim will usher in a new world of vehicles
-Green City spotlights – we will be visiting and profiling
the top green cities in America to see what makes them so progressive, including: Portland OR, San
Francisco CA, Boston MA, Austin TX, and Chicago, IL
-Greenfeet, More Hip Than Hippie Podcast (Chico,
California) Val runs Greenfeet.com, an online retail store of eco-friendly products that was picked as Co-op America’s
Top 10 green businesses. She and Dori do a weekly podcast which helps make being green easier for everyone.
-Geysers Geothermal Plant (Middletown, CA) The Geysers geothermal plants use the heat from the ground to produce
electricity.
-Helix Wind - manufactures vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) that are an alternative
to the propeller-type wind turbines. VAWTs are able to generate electricity at lower windspeeds, among other advantages.
-Hoover Dam (Boulder City, Nevada) the mother of all U.S. hydroelectric facilities.
We will use this to compare with some of the large-scale hydroelectric projects being built in China and their impacts,
as well as the potential to upgrade existing U.S. hydroelectric projects.
-Howard Lyman (Washington
State) 4th generation cattle rancher who has authored several books and travels the country
speaking about the benefits of eating vegan, and the environmental impacts of the industrial meat and dairy industry.
-Hull,
Massachusetts municipal wind turbines
-Innovalight – printable thin film solar technology
promises to bring the production cost of solar down considerably and make integrating solar technology more common
-Los
Angeles Material Recovery Facility – in this facility, all household trash is processed through a
waste sorting center that removes all usable materials. This is an alternative to curbside recycling and
is an important alternative to making our country more sustainable
-Nevada Solar One (Boulder City,
Nevada) utility-scale solar farm using concentrated solar trough technology
-NREL National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colorado) the government lab for designing and testing cutting-edge
renewable energy technologies
-Poulsen Hybrid (Connecticut) developing conversion kits to make ANY car
a plug-in hybrid
-Recycline - makes it's household products out of recycled plastic, including recycled
yogurt cups from Stoneyfield Farms.
-Rep. Jim McGovern (Washington DC) we would like
to interview our representative Jim McGovern about what the government is doing to make our country more sustainable.
-Rocky Mountain Institute (Old Snowmass, Colorado) groundbreaking research
in renewable energy and sustainable living
-Roscoe Wind Farm - this post-petroleum town in Texas has
brought in new energy, a farm of wind turbines. We'll see what kind of an impact they've had on life in Roscoe.
-Spirit Lake School District, Iowa – powers their school with wind energy
-Stephen
Lacey, Inside Renewable Energy podcast (Jaffrey, New Hampshire) Stephen started his podcast several years ago as
a hobbyist and it is now a critical source of industry news
-Tesla Motors (Los Angeles, California)
developer of the Tesla Roadster, the full-range electric sportscar that is making headlines everywhere
-Timberland - manufactures outdoor apparel that is made from recycled materials, and the
company has a strong commitment to being an environmentally sustainable business.
-Verdant Power
(East River, New York) using underwater turbines in the East River to generate electricity
-William
McDonough, Cradle-To-Cradle (Charlottesville, Virginia) Author of the book
‘Cradle to Cradle’ which is a blueprint for a new way to design and manufacture products sustainably and waste-free.
-Zenn Motors/EESstor (Toronto, Canada) Zenn Motors produces electric
vehicles and has exclusive rights to EEStor’s ultracapacitor technology, which promises to provide long range and fast
charging time.