Sustainability
Tangerine Solar launches new Solar Community
Monday, November 9th, 2009Advantive launched a new company called Tangerine Solar. Tangerine Solar develops community-scale solar energy systems in partnership with local citizens, advocacy groups, businesses, utilities, and government officials. There is outstanding demand for community solar energy, but virtually no providers that serve the unique needs of community-scale projects. Tangerine Solar will allow many projects on the […]
Advantive builds an Energy Savings Calculator for Evans Glass
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Evans Glass, Inc., a Northwest leading residential glass company, invited Advantive to build a energy savings calculator for their website located at http://www.evansglass.com/calculator.php Visitors to EvansGlass.com will learn how much money they can save when installing energy efficient windows. Advantive has built a number of energy-related calculators including a online carbon management tool for the Puget Sound […]
Advantive Tracks Carbon Emissions with World Resources Institute
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008(Washington DC) World Resources Institute is one of America’s leading environmental think tanks. WRI partnered with Advantive to improve the usability of their complex and lengthy Mobile Emissions Toolkit. This Excel package is the global “gold standard” by which organizations to quantify and track their global carbon emissions from vehicle and transportation. Advantive recommended a ton of user experience improvements to […]
Advantive builds brand equity for Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008(Seattle) Advantive has begun work on a new website to tell the story of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, a 6 year old business school on Bainbridge Island, WA that provides values-driven capitalists the tools they need to manage businesses with social and environmental missions. The BGI website is migrating to a custom content management system. […]
Advantive Launches Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Portal to “Green” Public and Private Fleets
Thursday, October 18th, 2007(Seattle) The Puget Sound Green Air Agency hired Advantive to build a web portal to support their joint project with the Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition to reduce emissions by both public and private fleet organizations. The Green Fleets Guide helps fleet managers and executive decision makers understand the emissions produced by fleet operations and identify effective ways to […]
Tech companies wake up to traffic nightmare
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Traffic across Lake Washington is a daily nightmare. This is why Advantive embraces alternative commute strategies like public transport, carpooling, and telecommuting. IT workers do work with their minds, and the capital they use in the form of servers, networks, and software, is portable to anywhere in the world. I have been saying for years, if […]
First steps to a “do not mail” list for junk mailers?
Saturday, September 1st, 2007Few things annoy me more than my daily dose of junk direct mail. It makes up 80% of the volume of my personal and business mail, and there is little recourse to stop it - there is not a postal equivalent to the “Do Not Call” list. But here’s a start: an organization called EcoLogical Mail that helps […]
To go green in jet fuel, Boeing looks at algae
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Once reluctant to believe that alternative energy made any sense in jet airplanes, Boeing now ponders how to take the biofuels revolution off the ground.
The world’s largest airplane maker is working with fuel developers from around the world to find the holy grail of alternative fuels: one that will shrink jet flight’s substantial environmental footprint […]