In this issue, Energy Vision celebrates its second anniversary. EV Vice President Gail Richardson writes about “Closing the Loop: Using NYC Waste to Power Sanitation Trucks.” And Philip Shabecoff describes the effects of toxic chemicals in the environment on children’s health.
Energy Vision presented a group of speakers at the 2008 Rutgers University Clean Energy Conference. The first speaker, Joanna Underwood, President of Energy Vision, kicked off the conference.
Click below to hear the other speakers:
David Demers – Mr. Demers, CEO Westport Innovations, Vancouver, Canada, spoke about the fact that oil consumption has increased worldwide while discovery of new sources of oil has dramatically dropped.
Russell K. Barnett – Mr. Barnett, Director of Environment and Waterways, Smithtown, Long Island, New York, describes implementation of 100% Natural Gas Sanitation truck fleet, the first of its kind on the East Coast.
Dean Saito – Mr Saito, Manager, South Coast Air Quality Management District, California, spoke about the current levels of air pollution in Southern California where he has sought to reduce the use of diesel fuel by replacing municipal truck fleet fuel with Natural Gas.
Ray Burke – Mr. Burke, Vice President Business Development, Clean Energy, explains the use of alternative fuels, particularly natural gas, for garbage truck fleets.
For those in the Philadelphia area! We invite you to join Energy Vision, Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities and Bryn Mawr College’s Environmental Studies Department for a clean fuels workshop.
Learn how your community can get on the path to sustainable energy by shifting its refuse truck fleets from reliance on high carbon diesel fuel to clean, secure natural gas! For the agenda and to attend, click on this link:
Smithtown, Long Island is one of a handful of early adoptors of Clean Natural Gas (CNG) for its refuse truck fleet.
Read Joanna Underwood’s article on green garbage truck fleets, published in the January, 2009 issue of Canada’s Municipal World Magazine. Municipal World is the oldest continuously published monthly municipal magazine in the world.
Energy Vision celebrated its second anniversary in NYC on Dec 4th, at a reception held in the historic townhouse of film writer and TV producer Tom Fontana. The evening Co-Chair, Blythe Danner, presented EV’s first two “Energy Vision” awards to National Grid’s CEO, Robert C. Catell, a leader in promoting clean alternative vehicle fuels, and to Ed Begley, Jr, Actor/Environmentalist, who pioneered in “walking the walk” with his green lifestyle. Ed got a new show (Congratulations, Ed!) so couldn’t come to New York. But we enjoyed his remarks! Scroll down for photos from the event, along with a video from Ed.
Read about intern Emily McGlynn’s experience at Energy-Vision. Emily has been an intern with Energy Vision for two years. She is a 2009 graduate of Bryn Mawr College and was chosen in 2008 to be a Truman Fellow.
Energy Vision holds its second workshop on alternative fuels. Read about it in our latest Newsletter.
Find out about NY State’s groundbreaking green purchasing initiative and get EV’s latest news! See EV News Vol. 1, Issue 3.
EV’s work was featured on G Word, a show highlighting unsung innovations in the environmental movement on the Discovery Channel’s vanguard network Planet Green. The segment “Green Garbage Trucks” aired on July 22nd at 7:00pm EST.