August 4, 2010 Leave a comment
Given the large number of businesses operating in Washington, D.C. and its surrounding area, the office managers may want to consider the green gadgets I have listed here.
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July 26, 2010 Leave a comment
Marriott International unveiled a prototype last week that will help it build more green, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)-certified hotels.
Charleston/Summerville is the first of Marriott hotels set to open in early 2012, will be a LEED hotel, created in partnership with the US Green Building Council.
According to their press, using the prototype will save the hotel giant six months of design time on each hotel. That’s about what the company says it would usually take to design a LEED-certificate worth new property. Marriott plans to roll out similar prototypes for its other brands in the future, including Residence Inn by Marriott and Towne Place Suites. Read more of this post
July 18, 2010 2 Comments
Whether you think President Obama is doing a great Job in handling our nation, whether or not you voted for him, one thing for sure he deserves a major credit for – Greenizing the country. I have been living, studying, and working in Washington, D.C. since 1985. I have never seen so much buzz and initiatives on green since Obama has taken over the Washington, D.C. His passion for going Green has even got Bill Gates to invest in green.
Prior Obama if you asked any republican to spell out “green”, they would spell it B-L-A-C-K. I assume you all know what I mean; OIL. Read more of this post
July 9, 2010 2 Comments
This is what I call good citizens! In an effort to become energy independent and ultimately carbon neutral, Washington, D.C. residents Shelley Cohen and Mike Gala are installing the District’s largest residential solar panel system.
The 11.96 kW system was installed this week by Maryland-based Astrum Solar.
The 52 solar panels will generate 13,754 kW-hours of electricity a year, meeting between 75-85 percent of the home’s electricity use. The environmental benefits from this solar project are equivalent to planting 250 trees annually or recycling 100 tons of waste over 30 years. Read more of this post
April 22, 2010 Leave a comment
by Elias Shams
It is 40th annual celebration of Earth Day and a lot going in Washington, DC. Both environmental non-profits and green corporate social responsibility programs have ramped up efforts to promote environmental action.
Here’s a look at just three of the many tools and great initiatives for environmental action taking place on the social web. Hopefully social media will help raise awareness all over the world. read more…
January 11, 2010 Leave a comment
This post is not really a Washington, DC thing unless you are in the telecom space or you lobby for a telecom carrier. The fact is that all the US telecom and mobile service providers have a strong lobby in our nation’s capital, I figured that I would give them and you my 2 cents on telecom operators and the path they should take to go GREEN. I am a telecom geek anyway!
So, if you are a wireless operator or you are lobbying for them, I hope you are taking notice.
I’ve been following this for years since my virginity broke at the age of 22. Not sure what the connection was, but, yes 22! depressing 
isn’t it? Not the non-green thing, the virgin till 22 thing Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t a retard or geek in my teen. The thing is, I was 13 when I realized girls were different than 
boys By the time, I was gonna a do something about it, an Islamic revolution happened…Then, there was a war with Iraq… Believe me sir! I knocked on every door – cat, dog, goat, every door! nothing!!! So, I was around 21 1/2 when I got off 
the boat, landed in this great new country of mine, USA, and finally… 
It was a beautiful goat in a barn in some ville town in West Virginia on July 28, 1985 at 2:38:45 p.m EST. No wonder they say Virginia for lovers! I still carry her picture in my wallet. Here she is aaah…Just look at that smile —>
Anyway, back to the green technology. This has been a very interesting topic since the first Earth Day in 1970 when I was only a little boy. However, momentum behind environmentally friendly public policy and business practices has dramatically picked up over the past 15 year or so. There has been more focus on it since the rise of 
Obama administration in our beloved Washington, DC. Not to mention the global recognition of the need to protect the environment for future generations has also increasingly become a central issue that is now shaping behaviors in both the public and private sectors.
The good news is, subscribers of all age groups are now expressing awareness of and interest in ecofriendly device and service incentives. Such issues were not even a talking point a couple of years back. According to a report by ABI Research, almost half of North American mobile consumers are likely to be influenced by suppliers’ green credentials when buying telecom services or devices. Of 1,000 respondents:
- 41 percent said they would be significantly more likely to buy services from telecom providers with green credibility,
- 45 percent said they would be more likely to buy devices from telecom companies that are seen as green.
Respondents were asked whether they would be more likely to buy mobile services or mobile handsets from an operator with “green” initiatives, described as one that “gives money to organizations seeking to help the environment, actively employs programs that reduce its carbon footprint and buys network equipment from green equipment vendors.”
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Elias Shams
Kamran Abdi
Tatiana Sorabi
