by C.D. Guillaudeu | Jun 2, 2020 | Business Spotlights, General, Sustainable Landscaping, Zero Waste
Many, many thank-yous to Lauren Gassman of Food Loop Compost for being our May meeting’s guest speaker last week! Lauren introduced us to her composting service started back in October 2019, her basic composting techniques, business model and scaling her...
by C.D. Guillaudeu | Mar 19, 2020 | Cleaning Products, General, Resources
Michael Mulcahy founder and Chief Executive for Ascalon International, Inc. introduced VGI attendees to their new biobased all purpose cleaner, Laurinex. Ascalon is a Virginia and Veteran-owned company, which designs, manufactures, and markets a revolutionary family...
by C.D. Guillaudeu | Feb 10, 2020 | General, Green Business Challenge, VGI News, Zero Waste
Virginia Green Initiative (VGI) Green Business Challenge Awards – 2/6/2020 Text and photos by C.D. Guillaudeu – 2/8/2020 Thursday evening Feb 6th, the Virginia Green Initiative (VGI) had their first Green Business Challenge (GBC) awards celebration for all...
by C.D. Guillaudeu | Dec 10, 2019 | Business Spotlights, Cybersecurity, Energy, General, Infrastructure
What in the World does Cybersecurity have to do with Being Green? Colin Dunn of Fend Tech explained exactly that at VGI’s monthly meeting November 21st. Cybersecurity runs the gamut from the software and networking hardware itself to Social Engineering, (someone...
by C.D. Guillaudeu | Oct 30, 2019 | General, VGI News
VGI will be meeting earlier in the months of November and December due to the holidays. Thursday November 21st and Thursday December 19th
by C.D. Guillaudeu | Oct 19, 2019 | General
Our Featured speakers are Scott Feder of Shrewd Marketing and Linda Graziano of the AppQueen, speaking on audience reach. General meeting starts at 2pm This Thursday at 801 Sycolin Rd SE #102 Leesburg, VA.
by C.D. Guillaudeu | Oct 7, 2019 | General, Materials, Recycling, Resources
Many thank-yous to our September Speakers, Scott MacDonald, Recycling Manager for Prince William County (his PowerPoint is embedded at the end of this article) and Tony Hayes, Recycling Manager for Loudoun County. Encouraging businesses and individuals to recycle not...
by C.D. Guillaudeu | Sep 29, 2019 | General
Last day to fill out the VGI Green Business Challenge is December 31st! Go Green to Save Green! Green Business...
by C.D. Guillaudeu | Aug 25, 2019 | Capitalism, Climate Change, Economy, Fossil Fuels, General, Green New Deal
The Green New Deal, why do we need it? An Engineer’s Perspective given by Tony Noerpel, founder of Sustainable Loudoun. Speaker Bio: Tony Noerpel retired in 2016 after a long career as a research engineer and inventor with Bell laboratories and Hughes Network...
by C.D. Guillaudeu | Jun 23, 2019 | VGI News
On Wednesday June 12th, Dr. Mary Haberl of VGI participated with Clean Air Partners at Potomac Conservancy’s Paddle the Potomac Event down at the Key Bridge Boathouse in Washington D.C. Many thank-yous to Potomac Conservancy and Clean Air Partners, it was...
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