Your State as Crazy as California?
In 2025, this southwestern state passed the PFAS Protection Act, creating one of the nation's broadest bans on intentionally added PFAS in everything from cookware to hatch chilles.
This international climate agreement requires participating countries to reduce emissions.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This renewable energy proves that yesterday's scraps can power tomorrow's boilers.
What is Biogass?
Also acceptable RNG.
Carbon dioxide, methane, and nirtrous oxide are examples of this type of emissions.
What are Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
The large up front cost for long-term assets.
What is Capital Expense (CapEx)?
This California law that requires local agencies to achieve groundwater sustainability.
What is the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act?
"Don't throw that away...yet" This economic model keeps materials in use longer through reuse, recycling, and redesign.
What is the Circular Economy?
Elon Musk's cousins founded and grew a company into the nation's largest of its type. Actually, they were a financial institution disguised as an installer of this type of renewable energy.
What is Solar Energy?
Efficient HVAC, LEED certifications, and sustainable sourced materials are all part of this type of environmentally friendly construction.
What is Green Building?
Buy once cry once? Not with this accounting method that spreads the cost of an asset over its useful life, you end up crying for years.
What is Depreciation?
This state was the first in the nation to establish a pre-paid deposit for beverage containers.
What is Oregon?
A persistent global problem where agricultural expansion, illegal logging, and wildfires have eliminated more than 1 billion acres of forest since 1990 (that is roughly half of the United States).
What is deforestation?
Land based these generate around 2-3 MW of renewable energy each. Offshore versions can push more than 10 MW.
What are Wind Turbines?
A company markets itself as maybe being more environmentally friendly than they actually are.
What is Greenwashing?
Buy once cry once? Not with this accounting method that spreads the cost of an asset over its useful life, you end up crying for years.
What is ROI?
This was the first state in the US to pass a full packaging law, way back in 2021.
What is Maine?
This climate phenomenon causes drought in some regions and flooding in others, and is driven by abnormal warming of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean.
What is El Nino?
At one of these types of energy plants in California, municiaplities pump 20 mgd into the ground so it can be converted to steam, from which a series of power plants generate electricity - around a staggering 1,000 MW of renewable electricity.
What is Geothermal?
The opposite of "let's mix and hope", this science-based initative designs products and processes that reduce or eliminate hazardous substances.
What is Green Chemistry?
The technical financial definition is, "a series of cash-flows".
What is an Asset?
A letter, any letter will do.
What is: literally any letter.
The United Nations blueprint of 17 interconnected goals aimed at ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity by 2030.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's)?
This alternative energy source has almost no moving parts, uses hydrogen as the input, and creates only heat and water as the byproducts. Sounds almost too good to be true.
What are Fuel Cells?
This certification level in Lean and Six-Sigma.
What is Green Belt?
This financial calculation discounts future cash flows to today's dollars in order to decide if a project is worth doing.
What is Net Present Value (NPV)