On February 26, U.S. Embassy Finland celebrated the grand opening of the Innovation Center, home to the League of Green Embassies’ office. The Innovation Center is a newly rehabilitated office building highlighting intelligent, high-performance, energy efficient building design. From nanotechnology to intelligent automation controls, we have deployed American products to better provide for the safety [...]
On February 5, U.S. Embassy Harare joined Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda to celebrate the installation of a garbage bin donated by the Embassy. Located in the Harare Gardens, a key transit point with a large foot traffic population, the bin represents the Embassy’s support for community-led cleanup and waste management solutions. The donation is part [...]
On February 2nd to commemorate World Wetlands Day, Green Team El Salvador with the USAID Regional Program for the Management of Aquatic Resources and Economic Alternatives organized two activities near Jiquilisco Bay, one of six Ramsar sites in El Salvador. In Puerto Triunfo, the team held a fishing net exchange with the local community, a [...]
On December 8, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Mark Brzezinski hosted U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and a group of eight innovators, young leaders and scientists who shared information about their cutting-edge clean energy solutions. The roundtable discussion was organized by the Swedish American Green Alliance (SAGA), a clean energy partnership between the Government of [...]
Embassy New Delhi embraces Secretary Clinton’s call for Green Diplomacy, and we are committed to saving taxpayers’ dollars, conserving resources, and reducing our environmental impact. Our Resource Conservation Unit (RCU), the first of its kind in the Department, consists of a group of committed, resourceful local staff that is dedicated solely to accomplish our greening [...]
Yesterday, Sweden’s Minister for IT and Energy Anna-Karin Hatt and U.S. Ambassador Mark Brzezinski visited the Hammarby wastewater treatment plant in southern Stockholm. The site visit took place under the auspices of the Swedish American Green Alliance (SAGA) and highlighted a new partnership between the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and U.S. water technology company [...]
Stockholm-based think tank FORES hosted a seminar with Bay Fang, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, on August 13. She zeroed in on recent reports showing that the United States has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly eight percent since 2006. The emission reductions can primarily be attributed [...]
Reducing State Department’s environmental footprint Embassy Amman was opened in 1992. Those familiar with LEED know it is much harder to get an existing building certified than new construction. Mindful of severely limited natural resources, notably energy and water in Jordan, U.S. Embassy Amman has made a series of improvements over the past twenty years [...]
In March 2011 Embassy Baghdad established its first Green Team, with the goal to support sustainable living within the Embassy compound. Since our adult community is confined to the compound, without interactions with the local community, and without local infrastructure, we had to focus on what can be done within our “bubble”. All Embassy employees [...]
Yesterday, on July 19, the U.S. Ambassador to Finland and current head of the League of Green Embassies, Bruce Oreck, visited Sweden. Ambassador Oreck was in Stockholm to review successes accomplished by U.S. Embassy Stockholm in lowering the Embassy’s carbon footprint with geothermal, district heating, Honeywell’s high-tech energy monitoring devices, water-saving technology, BetaLED lighting, 3M [...]
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