OppGreen Insights

Interview with Paul Bunje, Exec. Director of the Center for Climate Change Solutions

Posted on 01. Nov, 2009 by Susanna Schick.

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Paul Bunje is the Executive Director of the Center for Climate Change Solutions (CCCS) at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment OG: So what are some of the projects you’re working [...]

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Opportunity Green Reports on CRA/LA’s Progress with the Cleantech LA Initiative

Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Ben Upham.

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Opportunity Green checked in this week with the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA) to learn what progress the collaborative organization has made in their initiative [...]

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A Pragmatist’s Approach to Sustainability: An Interview with Gensler’s Nellie Reid

Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Gaia Dempsey.

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It’s easy to be drawn to the flashiness of radically innovative design: imagine the possibilities of a futuristic community where every building is entirely self-sufficient and biologically integrated into the [...]

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Opportunity Green attends launch of CleanTech Los Angeles

Posted on 15. Apr, 2009 by Chathri Munasinghe.

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Esteemed figures in the academic community and Los Angeles government converged this morning to announce the launch of CleanTech Los Angeles. This unique partnership aims to introduce Los Angeles into [...]

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Uncovering the Acumen Fund and moving beyond the blank check

Posted on 19. Mar, 2009 by Chathri Munasinghe.

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Imagine you had sweater and donated it to the Goodwill. Now imagine you went to Africa more than a decade later and came across a boy who was wearing it. [...]