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Virtual Energy Forum

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 by Kyle Scribner

If you’ve been wanting to green up your office but have been overwhelmed by all the info available, there’s an event next month that may be just what you’ve been waiting for.

The second annual Virtual Energy Forum, running June 24-25, is a free, online, open-access event aimed at empowering companies and their employees to make their workplaces more efficient and sustainable.

Just register at the forum and you’ll have access to presentations, case studies, and more that will help you work smarter and healthier. You’ll even get to chat with exhibitors and experts.

Scheduled speakers include Rocky Mountain Institute’s Amory Lovins, Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp and the Department of Energy’s Mark Ginsberg. Companies of varying ‘greeness’ will be represented, including Hess, Dow Chemical, Procter and Gamble, IBM, Raytheon and Whirlpool, as will the EPA, International Energy Agency and Harvard University.

You’ll learn about ways to conserve energy, how to get refunds and subsidies to help pay for retrofits and upgrades, and other best-practice techniques.

I’ll be checking in at least one of the days and posting about it, perhaps tweeting too. Let Captivate know if you plan to attend by commenting below or emailing kscribner@captivate.com.






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Kyle Scribner is a born-again nature freak who also happens to be an editor at Captivate Network.

You know that exhilarated feeling you got as a kid when you would go down to the pond to catch frogs? It never really goes away; it’s just dormant. So I'm here to slap a mix of facts and borderline balanced opinion on you, to poke a stick at the nature freak slumbering in us all and maybe get him to once again come out and play.

And we might even learn a few things about the environment as we go.

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How do you commune with nature or become part of the solution to the environmental crisis when you're trapped in a cement-and-glass, gas-guzzling, power-sucking, emissions-spewing metropolis 8 hours (or more) a day? How do you go 'green' in a world of gray?

Actually, there are plenty of ways, and Green Among Gray aims to show high-rise inhabitants how they can help ease the load on the environment and on their minds by exploring natural oases, conservation tips, and other ways to stay green while working in the concrete-built world of the big city.

Look for short updates on the latest environmental news along with periodic longer features on specific places and events that allow big-city workers to get close to nature.