Embassy Lisbon Committed to Greening As a founding member of the League of Green Embassies, Embassy Lisbon has initiated several programs, which have reduced Post’s carbon footprint by an estimated 209 tons during 2008-2011. It organized public affairs events, formed an employee committee focused on green practices, and launched a new utilities gain-sharing program for [...]
Ambassador Oreck was representing the League of Green Embassies in Lisbon this month. While there he spoke to faculty and students at the MIT Portugal Conference. The Ambassador emphasized the importance of being proactive in shaping the future into one in which you want to live. He also outlined changes underway at U.S. Embassies around [...]
The U.S. Embassy in Lisbon is one of the founding members of the League of Green Embassies. As a proud member of the League, the Embassy created in 2008 the LEAF (Lisbon Eco-Friendly Action Forum), a committee of employees responsible for developing ideas to assist in reducing the carbon footprint of the Embassy. Recycling containers [...]
Chair of the League of Green Embassies Ambassador Bruce Oreck will travel to Lisbon on March 30th. While in Portugal Ambassador Oreck will deliver a keynote address at a conference on March 31st entitled Green Campus: Platforms for Developing Best Practices on Energy Efficiency at the Technical University (IST) of Lisbon, which hosts the MIT [...]
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