SUBA Manufacturing Inc has demonstrated its environmental leadership by working with Carbon Lighthouse to profitably eliminate the carbon footprint of its laminate counter-top manufacturing space in Benicia, CA. After electing to take part in Benicia’s Business Resource Incentive Program (BRIP), SUBA enlisted the help of Carbon Lighthouse to conduct a thorough energy and environmental analysis [...]

Carbon Lighthouse is a proud to be working with Squaw Valley ski resort to make the 2013 U.S. Alpine Championships the first carbon neutral profession skiing event in the U.S. The event is the culmination of the professional ski season and brings together the full US Ski Team, including several Olympic athletes such as gold [...]

On February 22nd, Stanford hosted its 36th Viennese Ball at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Bringing together the ancient traditions of Fox Trot, Waltz, Salsa, and Breakdancing, Stanford students descended on San Francisco in tuxedos and ballroom gowns. In the not age-old tradition of eliminating the environmental impact of an event, the not-for-profit Carbon [...]

Carbon Lighthouse President Raphael Rosen addressed students at Foothill College’s Sustainable Learning Community as part of the Emerald Campus Lecture Series

Carbon Lighthouse CEO Brenden Millstein was as an invited judge of this year’s Stanford’s BASES Social-Entrepreneurship Challenge. The BASES Challenge is Stanford’s top entrepreneurial grant competition, and the Social-E section is the highly competitive fellowship program for those trying to improve the world through entrepreneurship. The event has more than a dozen  sponsors, including Paypal, [...]

The International School of the Peninsula has renewed its commitment to environmental responsibility by working with Carbon Lighthouse to become carbon neutral. The school, which achieved Energy Star Certification last fall and earned the Mayor of Palo Alto’s inaugural Green Business Leader Award, has now completed a package of energy efficiency upgrades that will reduce [...]

Carbon Lighthouse is pleased to announce the completion of its retrofits at the Flood Building, a 300,000 square foot San Francisco structure that survived both the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes. The retrofits involved collecting and analyzing more than 500,000 data points, and the lifetime savings of the project will exceed $1,200,000. The carbon emissions of [...]

Carbon Lighthouse was featured on a special episode of Planet Forward on Bloomberg TV. The episode highlighted our unique approach to delivering energy savings. It showcases a few of the facilities we’ve worked on to date. The title of the piece, “Bringing Old Electrical Systems into the Digital Age,” explores the many retrofit solutions we [...]

Forbes.com recently ran an OpEd piece from Carbon Lighthouse Director of Engineering Matthew Ganser which presents a new perspective on the role of efficiency developers.  In his OpEd, “Log Baby Log: The Race to the New Resource Play You Haven’t Heard Of,” Matthew builds a parallel between the recent boom in natural gas and the [...]

Over Stanford’s Winter Break, a group of students from the Graduate School of Business traveled to Antarctica to learn about local environmental conditions, and more about how businesses are both improving and negatively impacting our planet. In order to eliminate their own environmental impact, the group chose the not-for-profit Carbon Lighthouse Association to balance the [...]

Carbon Lighthouse was featured in the San Francisco Business Times today. The article highlighted interviews from two past clients: Stevens Development Company and Wilson Meany. Both property firms commented on how Carbon Lighthouse’s data driven analytics and technology neutral approach gave them far more confidence in the outcomes for their buildings than when working with [...]

Palo Alto – Carbon Lighthouse was one of several firms invited by the Atmosphere/Energy group at Stanford University to appear on an industry panel last week, a group which included Silver Spring Networks, Energy Solutions, E3 consulting, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. For these engineering students, learning about the energy space and [...]

Carbon Lighthouse is excited to announce the closure of a project funding round. The funds will be used to help clients finance energy efficiency and carbon neutrality projects throughout California. Investors included private individuals and businesses interested in supporting meaningful environmental change while receiving an attractive financial return. “We are very excited to be able [...]

Forbes.com featured the analysis of Carbon Lighthouse President, Raphael Rosen on the topic of Cleantech Around the World. In a piece entitled, “Why Solar Makes More Economic Sense In Tanzania Than In Florida,” Raphael looked at the energy economics of solar and energy efficiency in different parts of the planet. Forbes’s website has ten million monthly [...]

Leading news source for the clean energy industry, Greentech Media, recently published a feature article on Carbon Lighthouse. The article highlights many of the unique components of the Carbon Lighthouse package that make such a difference to our clients. It also perfectly captures CEO Brenden Millstein’s commitment to revolutionizing the energy industry in his quote: [...]

KIPP Summit Academy, a San Lorenzo, CA middle school, has completed several projects with Carbon Lighthouse to profitably eliminate its building’s entire carbon footprint. Carbon Lighthouse conducted a comprehensive energy study at Summit Academy, collecting more than 100,000 data points on building lighting levels, temperature, and electrical current for five weeks. Carbon Lighthouse used that [...]

Carbon Lighthouse was excited to participate in the inaugural year of OpenCoSF, an event organized by Mayor Lee’s Office of Innovation to highlight the best of San Francisco innovation. The company joined the likes of Twitter, Google and Airbnb in opening our doors to the public to showcase our unique vision for changing the world [...]

On Monday, the City of Palo Alto awarded the inaugural “Green Leader” Business Recognition Awards to seven businesses that have shown exceptional leadership in environmental stewardship. Among the recipients were two Carbon Lighthouse clients, Stevens Development Company and the International School of the Peninsula, representing four buildings in the city that have achieved Energy Star [...]

Carbon Lighthouse was delighted to once again deliver its annual lecture to Stanford University’s Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. A packed lecture hall of students listened for 90 minutes as CEO Brenden Millstein told the story of Carbon Lighthouse’s foundation, and how its methods for making it possible for buildings to profitably become carbon neutral evolved [...]

UC Berkeley featured Carbon Lighthouse on a career panel aimed at UC Berkeley students interested in clean energy careers. CEO Brenden Millstein joined representatives of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Peace Corps, and the Alameda County Parks Service in helping students understand the clean energy job market. We were delighted to see that there [...]

As part of Energy Week, Stanford and SLAC invited Carbon Lighthouse to serve a mentor to Stanford’s top undergraduate and graduate students. Our CEO, Brenden Millstein, advised  answered students’ questions about clean energy career paths, entrepreneurship, and the energy and utility sectors in general. We were thrilled to help foster the enthusiasm of so many [...]

Bloomberg Businessweek has named Carbon Lighthouse as one of America’s Top 25 Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs of the Year. We are delighted to have been selected for the award! The Small Business bureau within Bloomberg Businessweek selected us from among more than 300 social enterprises nominated. Other winners included Inventure, Frogtek, and New Resource Bank. [...]

Carbon Lighthouse is proud to announce the completion of a series of energy projects at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay (JCHS), eliminating the school’s entire carbon footprint while reducing utility costs. “JCHS is proud that our work with Carbon Lighthouse gives us the opportunity to enact a primary Jewish value of stewardship [...]

Onset, the manufacturer of HOBO data loggers, recently published a report written by Carbon Lighthouse CEO, Brenden Millstein. The new white paper discusses how the use of inexpensive data loggers and spreadsheet analysis can provide all the evidence needed to make a powerful case for saving money by replacing failed air-handler economizers as well as [...]

On behalf of the Carbon Lighthouse Association, Yiaway Yeh, mayor of the city of Palo Alto, awarded Bob Stevens, the owner of Stevens Development Company, a plaque for making his buildings Carbon Free. The presentation took place during the mayor’s address at the Downtown Palo Alto Business Improvement District’s (PAd) Clean Green Street Scene Earth [...]

Last summer, as part of an Oregon Department of Energy contract, Carbon Lighthouse engineers conducted energy studies at 52 under-served schools in rural Oregon over several months. Now, our team’s hard work, and the efforts of several other organizations including Trane and Energy 350, is being recognized. The Associated Press reported on the story here. Carbon [...]

Carbon Lighthouse proudly announced today that to advance its efforts of helping the environment it has become an ENERGY STAR Partner. Our voluntary partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program underscores our mission of helping our clients improve the energy efficiency and performance of their facilities; we [...]

Climate Corps Bay Area invited Carbon Lighthouse President Raphael Rosen to come speak to its clean energy program managers. Raphael spent an hour discussing the mission of Carbon Lighthouse as well as carbon markets more generally: the motivation behind the markets, their shortcomings, and the opportunity to use mandatory markets to improve voluntary ones. On [...]

Stanford University’s Energy Club invited Carbon Lighthouse’s Brenden Millstein to be a panel speaker at their Net Zero Energy Event. The even was hosted by Sarah Backhouse, former Broadcaster for NBC, BBC, PBS, and the Discovery and Sci Fi Channels. Each panelist presentated on an issue currently hindering progress with Net Zero Energy buildings. The [...]

On behalf of WMS Partners, a leading San Francisco real estate management firm, Carbon Lighthouse obtained Energy Star Certification for the historic Flood Building. Energy Star is a government program that recognizes  buildings that operate with among the highest energy efficiency in their class. The Flood Building’s operable windows, steam heating, and thorough maintenance program [...]

The Ghostbusters. Such was the title Emmy-award winning NBC correspondent Scott Budman bestowed upon Carbon Lighthouse engineers when he followed some of our team members around a Palo Alto site. NBC came to learn more about Carbon Lighthouse in general and to witness our energy study in particular, the critical first step in our turnkey, [...]

The Public Management Program within Stanford’s Graduate School of Business invited Carbon Lighthouse CEO Brenden Millstein to speak on its Social Entrepreneurship panel. The Panel, moderated by Ann Marie Burgoyne, a Portfolio Director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, looked at the variety of business models that serve the social good: from hybrid for-profit/not-for-profit models [...]

Stanford Professor Melanie Edwards, a Lecturer in Urban Studies and Public Policy, invited Brenden and Raphael to give a one and a half hour guest lecture in her class on “Social Innovation and The Social Entrepreneur.” The class provides “an informal lecture and discussion series that examines ideas and practices for addressing social needs in the U.S. and internationally.”

South by Southwest,  (SXSW), an event planning organization renowned for its sprawling music, film, and technology festivals, extended an exclusive, complimentary invitation to Carbon Lighthouse to attend its first-ever SXSW Eco Conference in Austin. We met with leading cleantech executives, grantmakers, habitat defense organizations, and policy makers to discuss topics ranging from expected clean energy [...]

Plug and Play, one of the world’s largest incubators and organizers of startups, invited Carbon Lighthouse to address more than 500 individuals from leading corporations and investment firms including: Sprint, Vodafone, Best Buy, Tivo, Intel, Motorola, Google, Chevron, Samsung, Canon, Barnes & Noble, Vantage Point, DBL, Global Catalyst, and others.

Taylor Engineering, a design engineering firm with many publications on advanced energy efficiency, topics invited Carbon Lighthouse to come speak to its team about carbon markets. We shared our mission to make it profitable for every organization to become completely carbon-free, profitably, and talked in depth about the role to be played by effective carbon [...]

Carbon Lighthouse is thrilled and honored to have been selected as 2011 Echoing Green Fellows. Only 15 groups were chosen from an initial application pool of 2,854 social ventures, and Carbon Lighthouse was the only environmental group chosen. View our winning Pitch here! A plurality of all applications this year were in the Cleantech space, [...]

Carbon Lighthouse was invited to address a Spanish course at CPS, an Oakland, California school with a strong environmental mission. Carbon Lighthouse was delighted to translate our “carbon-free profitably” mission into Spanish, spoken by more than 500 million people around the world. We discussed the nuances of energy engineering, energy project finance, and verifiable carbon [...]

Carbon Lighthouse is thrilled to announce that we have been selected as Stanford StartX Fellows. StartX – with support from Khosla Ventures, AOL, General Catalyst, Amazon, Charles River Ventures, Greylock Partners, and many more of Silicon Valley’s leading companies – provides a select group of Stanford’s most promising entrepreneurs with financial backing, mentorship, and office [...]

TEDx Silicon Valley selected Carbon Lighthouse to present at its poster session. TEDx SV is an invitation only event of “thought leaders from the Silicon Valley area and beyond” for a mix presentations, discussions, and entertainment. You can see a broadcast of it here. The speakers this year came from around the world and included [...]

The City of Palo Alto Utilities has selected Carbon Lighthouse, in a team with Wave One, to design and implement of a first-of-its-kind energy efficiency and sustainability program for 100 buildings in downtown Palo Alto.

Stanford’s Future Social Innovators Network (FuSION) selected Carbon Lighthouse to speak on one of its prestigious “Social-E” panels. “Social-E” refers to Social Entrepreneurship, and is Stanford University lingo for using the powers of business and entrepreneurship to make the world a better place. Stanford undergraduate and graduate students from all fields come to FuSION events [...]

In April, Carbon Lighthouse branched out from schools and office buildings by completing its first retail store retrofit. Carbon Lighthouse identified, managed, and implemented a full-scale lighting upgrade at the Golden Bear Market. The Golden Bear Market is a hot spot for the thousands of UCSF doctors, professors, and staff up the block at the [...]

Echoing Green, (EG) one of the world’s most prestigious and competitive Social Venture Competitions, has selected Carbon Lighthouse as one of 30 finalists from an initial pool of 2,854 applicants. Echoing Green was established in 1987 by the senior leadership of the hedge fund General Atlantic. It is not, in fact, an environmental group. (The [...]