Hartman takes new role to be 'part of solution' - Architect retires from firm...
Devon Hartman is retiring - sort of. At 59, the respected architect is leaving daily operations at the practice he built with friend and partner Bill Baldwin 30 years ago.
View ArticleCity of Riverside finalist for environmental award
The City of Riverside was recently selected as a finalist in the 2010 International Awards for Livable Communities, an international competition for local communities that focuses on environmental...
View ArticleRenewable energy projects approved -
The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved several renewable energy contracts for Southern California Edison Co. and Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
View ArticleNext frontier: Hospital in China - HMC Architects of Ontario is adopting a...
A 2,000-bed hospital under construction in China will adopt a method of natural ventilation that impressed Chinese government officials when they saw it demonstrated in a Rancho Cucamonga building...
View ArticleFrontier Project receives platinum certification
The Frontier Project Foundation recently celebrated the receipt of the LEED Platinum Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
View ArticlePlastic recycler to open plant in Riverside in mid-2011 -
CarbonLITE Industries LLC based in Los Angeles has leased a 220,000-square-foot space in the Hunter Busines Park area of Riverside for 10 years, with a 10-year option for renewal, said Neville Browne,...
View ArticleTV personality to host Green Tie Gala
The Frontier Project's Second Annual Green Tie Gala on Oct. 16 will be hosted by fashion model and noted sustainable living advocate Didiayer Snyder - the ";green voice"; for ABC-TV's Emmy-winning...
View ArticleTwo Inland cities to receive environment award
The Frontier Project Foundation recently announced that the City of Rancho Cucamonga has been selected as one of the 2010 Environmental Steward Award recipients for its comprehensive sustainability...
View ArticleConstruction pins hopes on green - JOBS: Energy Upgrade California is a...
Work-hungry contractors and the unemployed who crowded into the 2010 Green Job Summit in San Bernardino this week hoped that a new rebate program aimed at making existing homes more energy efficient...
View ArticleGreenstone paves new kind of recycled road -
So what happens to concrete and asphalt rubble when roads are torn up for repaving? The material is dumped in landfills and diverted to other waste management sites. At Perris-based Greenstone...
View ArticleRIVERSIDE: McDonald's gets green makeover -
Green arches, rather than the traditional gold ones, are a sign of the changes at Riverside's University Avenue McDonald's, which reopened Thursday after an environmentally friendly makeover.
View ArticleCalifornia citrus growers to pay more to prevent pest -
California citrus growers will be required to pay nine cents for every 40-pound carton, up from one cent per carton, to the California Department of Food and Agriculture in order to fund efforts to...
View ArticleFrontier Project receives award
The Frontier Project, a one-acre site that includes a 14,000 square-foot sustainable resource center, demonstration gardens and an on-site water retention system, was recently given an outstanding...
View Article250-megawatt solar plant approved for Riverside County -
A 250-megawatt solar power plant planned for Riverside County received final regulatory approval Thursday from the Secretary of Interior.
View ArticleREGION: Inland leaders explore remedies for uncertain water supplies -
Twenty-eight years ago, Northern California voters killed a bond issue that would have paid for a canal to carry water from the big rivers in the north to fast-growing Southern California.
View ArticleS. Babcock Laboratories gets award
S. Babcock Laboratories recently received its sixth Seal of Excellence Award - the highest national recognition given to environmental laboratories - by the American Council of Independent Laboratories.
View ArticleWater company to buy wastewater firm, reports loss -
Palm Desert-based Heckmann Corp. recently announced that it plans to acquire Complete Vacuum and Rental Inc., a Texas company that disposes of wastewater from mining operations in the Haynesville...
View ArticleCEO finds success selling snow to Southern Californians -
It should come as no surprise that the word "ski" is in Karl Kapuscinski's last name. There are 471 ski resorts in the United States and Kapuscinski is the owner of one of them, the Mountain High...
View ArticleFirst crop of UCR's Tango now in stores -
More than four years ago UC Riverside's citrus breeding program presided over the debut of a new mandarin. Buds of the Tango, as the newly patented fruit was called, were snatched up by growers and...
View ArticleA sample of success - E.S. Babcock and Sons again recognized by industry
S. Babcock and Sons Environmental Laboratories has flourished and survived the ups and downs of several economic cycles. The evolution of its business dates more than a century; 105 years to be precise.
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