GreenWave Solutions

General Manager
GreenBusiness WORKS

GreenWave Solutions is very excited to announce that we will be offering LED lights and LED Lighting in Atlanta.  LED lights may be THE most viable and effective “green” solution on the market.  Due to our partnership with a large LED lighting distributor we are able to provide LED lighting retrofit at NO UP FRONT COST*.

Go to our LED Lighting page to learn more about this amazing innovation and offer!

*Financing and lease to own systems are only available to qualified commercial customers.

Thursday,
January 21, 2010

8:00AM-5:00PM

$295

HOK Training Center
191 Peachtree St. NE Suite 4100
Atlanta, GA 30303

The Quality Growth Institute is offering an intensive, eight-hour course – intended for those in the construction, development, design, real estate, legal, facility operation, regulatory, or other related fields or industries – to prepare attendees to register, prepare for, and pass the Green Associate exam.

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Green building is a global movement, and USGBC has a growing commitment to ensuring our message has a global reach. Our international activities at Greenbuild and our expertise in policy, in technical green building issues, and in supporting the drive for a common carbon metric position us well to play a constructive role on the world stage in advancing the contributions of the built environment toward solving climate change.

As evidence of this commitment, this week, USGBC will join other green building councils and thought leaders from around the world in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the Conference of the Parties (COP15) United Nations Climate Change Conference. World leaders continue to struggle to find consensus around defining common goals and targets to address climate change, but during these critical meetings USGBC will aggressively add its voice to others who see greenhouse gas reductions from buildings as a fundamental strategy that should be addressed as part of the outcome of this round of talks.

Greenbuild 2009 – with its 27,373 attendees from 78 countries, hundreds of participants in the WorldGBC’s International Congress, and a dozen leaders of green building councils from every region of the world participating in the Opening Keynote & Celebration – underscored our international dedication. USGBC is committed to harnessing that energy and excitement with a focus on some clear international goals that will help us elevate the conversation.

One of those priorities is a common carbon metric. A fundamental aspect of tackling our carbon reduction goals is the ability to measure our progress, and to do that we need to have a common language worldwide. In November, the world’s leading green building organizations – including USGBC – reached a ground-breaking agreement to adopt a common global metric for the measurement of the carbon footprint of buildings. This is a critical and timely step that will demonstrate the cost-effective carbon mitigation potential of buildings, which account for around 40% of the world’s energy use and 33% of global greenhouse gas emissions. You can follow the events at Copenhagen by checking back regularly at the USGBC.org COP15 news page.

Essential to supporting the green building movement internationally is building capacity on the ground in local communities worldwide, providing professionals, policy makers and others with the tools and training they need to make green building a reality. Throughout 2009, the model by which USGBC develops, delivers and supports LEED and green building knowledge underwent a major evolution that will allow us to serve global as well as domestic audiences more effectively. We are working with green building councils and partners worldwide to bring our LEED curriculum to their communities. We will have increasing capacity to train green building professionals across the globe to serve as LEED instructors. Our course review process will allow us to identify and support quality green building education developed by third-party providers, including green building councils, international and multinational companies offering training for their employees, universities and formal education institutions, and others. We will offer education development services to help third-party providers create and improve their own green building curriculum. And we are committed to providing translations of select publications and courses, beginning with Spanish during 2010. Questions may be directed to the USGBC education department.

The USGBC community helps frame the global conversation about climate change mitigation, economic revitalization, and the other environmental and social challenges we face. We see that definitively in LEED’s increasing uptake in the world marketplace. At the end of the third quarter of 2009, there were 4,599 LEED APs outside of the United States. Currently, there are 2,688 non-U.S. green building projects registered or certified under LEED in 117 countries. Clearly, on the ground here and around the world, the pace of green building and the work of green building professionals underscore the immediacy and importance of the impact of green buildings.

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Cheap, Efficient Solar Cells You Can Print
For a while, everybody was talking about Nanosolar. They were the Tesla Motors of solar panels, in a way. But for the past year, they’ve kept quiet and this led some people to doubt that the company really would be able to deliver on what it had promised. Was it all hype? Well, Nanosolar has now broken radio silence and the news are good. They’ve simultaneously released information about three things, along with a very cool video that shows what the inside of their factories look like, including the brand new one in Germany.

Nanosolar 640MW Robotic Factory in Germany
The first piece of news from Nanosolar concerns a solar panel factory in Germany with a capacity of 640MW/year. The fully-automated facility is located in Luckenwalde near Berlin, and its inauguration was attended by Germany’s Minister of the Environment and the Governor of the State of Brandenburg, among others.

The 640 megawatts per year number if reached when the factory is operated 24/7 at the rate of 1 solar panel every 10 seconds! Nanosolar has also announced that serial production in its San Jose, California, cell production factory commenced earlier this year and that production would be ramping up to meet the $4.1 billion in contracts that they already have.

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