By Mette Jakobsen, management exchange student at UMass Boston On November 20, 2019, Kathleen Freeman, Senior Manager of Permitting & Environmental at Mayflower Wind Energy LLC, discussed the challenges and opportunities of advancing offshore wind energy in Massachusetts. Mayflower Wind is a joint venture between Shell New Energies (50%) and EDP Renewables (50%). In October Read More…
Tag: Clean Energy
From Waste to Wealth: Business Opportunities in the Circular Economy
By Harshraj Thakor, MBA Candidate, and Mikaela Hondros-McCarthy, MBA Candidate UMass Boston On April 3, 2017, the UMass Boston Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC) hosted an open event focused on opportunities and challenges for businesses adopting circular economy business models and incorporating zero waste practices. It is estimated that the circular economy Read More…
What Boston is Doing to Combat Climate Change: A Talk with Austin Blackmon
By Gavin Bodkin, MBA Candidate, College of Management, UMass Boston On October 22, 2015, Austin Blackmon, City of Boston Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space, spoke at UMass Boston about the city’s Climate Action Plan and its current policies and initiatives to address climate change and advance greater resiliency. Blackmon opened the talk with Read More…
The Smart Grid and Clean Energy
By Andrew Bishop, MBA Candidate, UMass Boston What are the challenges and opportunities of upgrading the power grid to cope with growing supplies of distributed, renewable, and intermittent power from solar, wind, and other clean energy sources? On October 28, 2014, the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC) at UMass Boston hosted a Read More…
2014 Green Careers Forum
By Vesela Veleva, ScD, SERC Co-Director In collaboration with The Office of Career Services and Internships, The Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC) at UMass Boston held its annual Green Careers Forum on April 16, 2014, to inform students about career opportunities in the environmental and sustainability fields, and provide them with the Read More…