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GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON, LEADERS IN MEDIA, BUSINESS AND REAL ESTATE HONORED FOR SUSTAINABLE “DESIGNS” BY GLOBAL GREEN USA AT 9TH ANNUAL NY AWARDS
New York, NY - December 10, 2008 - Global Green USA honored leading innovators for their extraordinary “designs” at the organization’s 9th Annual Sustainable Design Awards event at New York's Pier Sixty. This year’s honorees include:
Policy Design: Governor Bill Richardson, New Mexico
Organizational Design: Rosemary Ellis, Editor in Chief, Good Housekeeping
Founders Award: Robert S. Bucklin, Chief Corporate Banking Officer, Rabobank International
Green Building Design: Jeffrey C. Hines, President, Hines
Product/Industrial Design: Datuk Vinod Sekhar, Chairman & CEO, Green Rubber – A Petra Group Company
Katie Couric co-hosted the event along with David Hyde Pierce, Edward Norton (Global Green Board Member), Mel Gibson, and Brian Cox (Global Green New York Committee Member). Other notable attendees included Richard Donner, Robert Towne, and Pat Mitchell (President, Paley Center). The awards embody Global Green USA’s vision to foster a global value shift towards a sustainable and secure future through innovative policy, building, business, organizational, and industrial designs.
FIRST EVER GLOBAL SOLAR REPORT CARD POINTS WAY FOR OBAMA'S NEW ECONOMY
Dec 2, 2008 – Poznan, Poland/Los Angeles, CA – Global Green USA, on behalf of President Gorbachev's Green Cross International (GCI), released the first-of-its-kind Global Solar Report Card at the opening of the International Climate Conference in Poland. The report card can be found here.
The report spotlights countries that have designed the most promising policy frameworks for solar marketplace development and compares 16 countries' (and California's) efforts to incentivize the manufacture and deployment of solar power.
"The U.S.' C+ grade confirms that President-Elect Obama has ample opportunity to invest more in solar power today and begin shifting energy subsidies from dirty fossil fuels to clean solar technologies," said Matt Petersen, head of Global Green and chairman of GCI's energy program. "Solar power has incredible potential to deliver substantial amounts of clean electricity while reducing electricity bills and creating new, green jobs in manufacturing and solar installation."
GLOBAL GREEN USA HOSTS 4TH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO BENEFIT; HIGHLIGHTS GREEN BUILDING & SOLAR SOLUTIONS AS UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE KICKS OFF
Event Features Kate Bosworth, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Elliott Yamin, Sebastian Siegel, Darren Moore and hundreds of Global Green supporters
San Francisco, CA - Dec. 2nd - Global Green USA celebrated their 4th Annual San Francisco Benefit Party on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008. Held at San Francisco¹s LEED certified Bently Reserve, the event focused on green solutions that can help address the world¹s economic, energy and environmental crises. Proceeds from the evening benefited Global Green¹s initiatives nationally and in the Bay Area including its groundbreaking work to rebuild New Orleans green, to create green affordable housing that dramatically reduces high energy bills for low-income families and to create healthy green schools.
The event, entitled "Gorgeous and Green," was co-chaired by Zem Joaquin, Matt Petersen and Nadine Weil. The event included a VIP dinner and exclusive performance by American Idol finalist Elliot Yamin, as well as a presentation by climate expert and Global Green Advisory Board member Dr. Stephen Schneider.
Emergency Response Studio (ERS) exhibited at Global Green's Holy Cross Project Visitor Center
Emergency Response Studio, by Paul Villinski, is a solar-powered, mobile artist's studio, repurposed from a salvaged FEMA-style trailer. This sustainably re-built, off-the-grid living and work space is designed to enable artists to "embed" in post-disaster settings, and respond and contribute creatively. Villinski conceived the project in response to the devastation of post-Katrina New Orleans as "a symbol of transformation and possibility for the communities of the Gulf Coast." ERS will be exhibited in Prospect .1 New Orleans, the largest exhibition of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, which opens throughout the Cresent City November first, 2008.
Villinski's vision for ERS was realized through vital funding and in-kind donations from generous supporters, including Global Green USA.
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