We wanted to wish all the best to our clients and readers as we start the first full week of 2013.  As with any situation, one can look at the current state of affairs and see the glass as being half full or half empty. I was reminded of this looking at the comics page at today's paper. There was one strip that pointed out that we can look forward to 52 weeks with Friday 13th this year! On the other hand, my favorite comic strip - Classic Peanuts - captured the right spirt like show below ... [More]

John Hoffman, who was the driving force behind the EPA's Energy Star program has died - he was also the key person to get the Reagan administration to support the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer. According to a post in NRDC:  As a young EPA staffer in the early 1980s, John headed a small team focused on “strategic studies.”  This was early in the Reagan administration, before Anne Gorsuch and James Watt had been disgraced and dismissed.   It was not ... [More]

The purpose of the Air & Waste Management Association is to enhance environmental knowledge and provide quality information on which to base environmental decisions. The Nevada chapter of A&WMA covered Title V compliance tracking and reporting in its May meeting. Brad Waldron, Corporate Manager, Environmental Affairs, Caesars Entertainment discussed the details of their custom electronic system for the purpose of managing air quality compliance programs. As a company with mu... [More]

Recently came across an industry report that reiterates what we have believed all along - the market for software for tracking and reporting on EE services, just for the industrial market segment alone, is projected to grow at an explosive rate over the coming decade. According to this article, The U.S. market for these services will rise from $960 million in 2011 to $5.6 billion by 2020, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.6%, according to Pike Research. No longer cheap the way it ... [More]

As I mentioned in my last blog when we released the EnvCTR™ product module for public availability, we had spent over a year to develop it. We then tested it with one of the largest gaming entertainment companies in Nevada before announcing the product publicly. The response to the product has been very gratifying, enforcing our belief that there is a strong market demand for an integrated and easy-to-use product that is priced reasonably so that companies that don't need to spend hundreds... [More]