Now open for sign-up into October, a new citywide program aimed at promoting energy efficiency upgrades and solar power installations was launched Tuesday by San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders.  

You’d be hard pressed to find another law school in America more technologically advanced than Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Not only is TJSL’s new campus a beautiful sight to behold, but the technology utilized throughout the building, from the network infrastructure to the enhanced learning tools in the classrooms and the virtualized desktops, is state-of-the-art. 

Branching out into a topic not normally discussed by it up to this point, the San Diego County Taxpayers Association held a forum Thursday on renewable energy at its monthly “Breakfast Club at Lunch” series, leaving the gathering with a new understanding of San Diego’s future in the growing green economy.  

Continuing its monthly “Breakfast Club at Lunch” series, the San Diego County Taxpayers Association will meet Thursday for a forum on San Diego’s renewable energy future at the Town & Country Resort in Mission Valley.  

The last few months have been busy ones in the field of environmental review at the California Court of Appeal. A number of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) decisions have been issued, and a few provide interesting insights both for developers and their lawyers. To help understand these recent cases, here is a list highlighting key lessons: 

San Diego-based enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company (PARIS: EEN), has announced the addition of Kristina Peterson as vice president of the solar business unit.  

As November’s general election creates numerous possibilities for policy change both in San Diego and across the country, a group of executives from companies and groups involved in the expansion of solar energy systems discussed the state of their economies at a Daily Transcript roundtable. 

In the aftermath of the summer bankruptcy of the government-backed California solar panel maker Solyndra, expectations among renewable energy wonks, who describe the company’s failure as an outlier among many successes, remain generally high. But some policy research analysts are more skeptical — not doubtful, but still skeptical. 

When entering San Diego's business community about 30 years ago, Clint Walker’s aim had nothing to do with being in the solar business. His success as the co-founder and president of Southwestern Solar Systems since his entrance to the business in 2009 came about in much the same fashion his other major endeavors have. 

When Cecilia Aguillon, director of marketing and government relations for Kyocera Solar Inc., immigrated to the United States from El Salvador as a teen, she grew into a young adult with a lofty goal in mind: to save the world. 

Some people look at buildings and see a combination of wood, steel and mortar with a number of things inside to make them more comfortable and workable — lighting, computers and maybe a few windows, even if they can't be opened.