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Cassie covers the events, businesses and people that are making things happen in the ever-growing Los Angeles green community. In the workaday world, Cassie runs Three Elements Consulting, applying the business acumen acquired through many grueling years in corporate America to green start-ups and non-profits. She is also the author of The Green Office Handbook, a comprehensive program for offices looking to go green - it can be found at TheSustainableOffice.com.
Having grown up in Texas, Cassie credits her dad for her lifelong love of nature. After moving out west, Cassie received an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she sits on the Alumni Board of Directors. She currently volunteers for several environmental organizations.There are always sooooooo many events going on during the week of Earth Day, which is technically on Wednesday, Aprill 22nd, it’s hard to know which to choose. But at least there’s a searchable database that contains what appears to be a complete listing – there are 49 events within 25 miles of my 90401 [...]
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So, I attended the Green LA Coalition and Liberty Hill-sponsored event meant to let us all know how the billions headed for California will be spent. The verdict?
For small businesses, like mine, and nonprofits, it might be tough to get in on the action unless you’re prepared to work as a government contractor, which requires [...]
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There’s more than $50 billion coming your way, Californians!
That’s the amount that the California Budget Project expects the State and its residents to receive. The goal is the creation of 400,000 jobs, many of them “green jobs”. The funding comes none too soon, since California’s unemployment rate hit 10.5% in February.
But how will that money [...]
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Working at home sounds great, doesn’t it? With the average Los Angeles commute topping 30 minutes each way, think of what you could do with that extra time. And think of what the environment could do without all of those emissions.
A new report from the World Wildlife Fund indicates that non-manufacturing companies could cut their [...]
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At least in California, that’s where some of it’s going – $10 million dollars to be exact. The money will be used to fund the Green Corps, a program that will provide training for underprivileged youth to learn jobs in green construction, energy, and technology. The funding will be matched by an additional $10 million [...]
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You might just think of it as Sunday, but this particular Sunday, March 22nd, has a larger importance – it’s World Water Day, an international day of observance and action, drawing attention to the fact that over 1 billion people that share this planet do not have access to clean drinking water.
Born from the 1992 [...]
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Across the globe, restaurants, businesses, residents and municipalities are marking Saturday, March 28th, 2009 on their calendars.
Why? At 8:30pm on that date, the lights go out.
It may sound like the beginning of a horror movie (or the rolling “brownouts” we suffered a few years ago here in LA) but this time it’s on purpose. This [...]
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Having recently seen sprinklers running along the side of the 405 – in the middle of the afternoon – made me wonder how Los Angeles was ever going to do it. How would we ever become a sustainable city, if we couldn’t even water our landscaping at night? I mean, aren’t we in a drought? [...]
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Well, I suppose that depends. If we’re talking about the actual building, then yes, apparently it can, as announced recently by California-based Carl’s Jr. The company behind the ubiquitous burger chain, CKE Restaurants, Inc. opened its first eco-friendly Carl’s Jr. just a few miles from its Carpinteria headquarters.
What makes it green? Energy saving features include [...]
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Has Valentine’s Day always meant going out to eat? I suppose the tradition of the holiday (and those little candy hearts) is best left to another post, but since eating out seems to be de rigueur for couples these days, aim for making it as green as possible. A few joints in LA seem perfectly [...]
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