News from the Zero Waste Network

Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, the worlds third-busiest airport, has purchased a new electricity and green energy contract through World Energy Exchange, operated by World Energy Solutions in Worcester, Mass.

Through multiple online auctions, World Energy, an operator of online exchanges for energy and green commodities, helped DFW secure a term electricity contract for nearly 300,000,000 kWh annually, beating its prior rate while adding 20 percent renewable energy to its mix. Delivery begins March 1, 2010.

The "Great Convergence" between clean tech and development seeks to fuel growth through the incubation and rapid commercialization of new, sustainable technologies. That is the concensus of more than 100 of the worlds leading entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, change agents and financiers engaged in sustainable innovation and base-of-the-pyramid enterprise development, who gathered to accelerate the rate of change toward the great convergence in the world-the joining of clean technologies with the base of the pyramid.

UT Arlington has named environmental lawyer Kathryn C. "K.C." Poulos, a commissioner for the Environmental and Energy Advisory Commission in Oak Park, Ill., as the University's first sustainability director. The appointment is part of UT Arlington's efforts to continue to be a leader in campus sustainability in North Texas and across the state.

Poulos, who begins Aug. 1, earned her law degree along with a certificate in environmental law from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1993. "As an environmental attorney, I have worked on matters that involved remediation of Superfund sites, changes in state regulations and monitoring air emission permits," she said.

For more about UT Arlington's sustainability efforts, go to www.uta.edu/sustainability.