Wondering if that beer on your counter was made with renewable energy? The Environmental Protection Agency might be able to tell you. That’s because the agency just released its list of the top 20 organizations running on “green power”, or energy from solar, wind, and biogas sources.

1. The “Green Dream Team?”

This is not meant to be political. However, in the absence of any leadership at the federal level over the last eight years, it is refreshing to see that we may be assembling a team ready to address the complexities of market based solutions to climate change.

1. Election of Barack Obama

When the presidential campaigns began, greens might have thought they’d win either way: Both Barack Obama and John McCain were on record supporting strong action on climate change — and McCain could even point to his co-sponsorship of one of the first carbon cap-and-trade bills in Congress.

Every year the AIA Commetee on the Environment (COTE) invites electronic submission of built projects.

Here are the 2008 Top 10 Award Winners

1.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This network of thousands of international scientists has been around since the late 1980s, but it was in 2007 that the IPCC — charged with forging a scientific consensus on climate change — really made its mark. In its fourth assessment report on climate change, which comprised a series of reports released throughout the year, the IPCC made the final case that global warming is real, and that humans are the main cause.