In September, the Company made a presentation in New York City for the Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership entitled "Feeding the Hungry and Creating a Sustainable 'Green Revolution' in Africa - Technology Transfer and Carbon Credit Creation at the Farm Level". For more info, click here.
10/20/08
EcoVerdance's highlighted project, Jubilee Christian School in Uganda, was recently featured in the news along with Project Inkwell. For the full story, click here.
8/26/08
Roundtable FireStarter interview with EcoVerdance, TS Combustion, and Global Solar:
8/6/08
Interviews with President David Morris from the 2008 Future In Review Conference:
7/30/08
The Company is happy to announce the addition of two accomplished members to the EcoVerdance management team. Donnie Harris, 27, has accepted a role as Director of Africa Operations and will serve as EcoVerdance's point-man out of Nairobi, Kenya. Additionally, Anant Nyshadham will serve as the Company's Director of Global Development & Strategy. More information about the current team can be found under management profiles.
7/13/08
EcoVerdance Inc. joined the educational consortium, SNSProject Inkwell this week, expanding the domain of the organization’s one-to-one computing implementation into the third world. Through increased crop yields, EcoVerdance’s ultimate goal is to provide a level of nourishment and economic benefit for indigenous people that will allow currently employed children to return to school in order to pursue their own education. It is currently working towards the implementation of its first one-to-one computing system in the Yesu Afaayo Jubilee Christian Academy, located in the Pallisa district of Uganda. "This opportunity of a lifetime allows EcoVerdance to insure that we maximize the humanitarian impact of our efforts in Africa,” said EcoVerdance Inc. CEO David Morris. Inkwell was the first international industry group organized to design appropriate educational technology at the K-12 level, through cooperative planning with vendors, teachers, administrators, and students. Today Inkwell is the global leader in the successful implementation of this revolutionary movement to one-to-one computing.
7/10/08
EcoVerdance is pleased to welcome Janet E. Hawkes, PhD to its advisory board. Ms. Hawkes has extensive experience in horticulture, agriculture, agroforestry, and environmental sciences. Hawkes assisted in the development of RPM Ecosystems LLC, which grows and sells native trees, shrubs and grasses for restoration and conservation. From 1999 until 2005, Hawkes was Director of the Cornell Educational Resources Program in the Department of Education in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University and Principal Investigator on a variety of national and international agriculture and environmental programs funded with private and public funds. From 1995 until 1999, she served as the Executive Director of a regional environmental and agricultural education center. Prior to 1995, Hawkes was a Department Head at the University of the South Pacific in Alafua, Samoa. She also worked as a Cooperative Extension Agent, as a lecturer and teacher and has taught life and earth sciences, business, agriculture, and community development at the university, high school, and community levels. Hawkes has worked in international development and tropical agriculture in the South Pacific, Asia (India, Philippines, China), Africa, and the Caribbean. A consultant since 1986, she has worked with a wide array of businesses, organizations, agencies and governments on a variety of environmental and agricultural projects and programs. Hawkes has authored research and instructional resources on a variety of agricultural topics from energy and animal husbandry to tropical agroforestry and issues in sustainable agriculture. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the United Nations Food and Agriculture “The Growing Connections” Program, as an advisor to EcoPort in South Africa, on the Cornell University Theory Center Advisory Board, on the Stone Barns Center for Sustainable Agriculture Board of Directors, and is past Chair of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network, as well as other economic development, environmental, and agriculture boards and committees. Hawkes has a Doctorate in Agricultural Sciences, a Masters degree and teaching certification in Agriculture and Science Education, and a Bachelors of Science all from Cornell University.
7/4/08
President R. David Morris returned this past week from a two week trip to Africa. While there, he again met with both NGO and top governmental officials in Kenya, Uganda, and Burundi, including the respective Ministers of Agriculture as well as Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
5/24/08
Five members of the EcoVerdance management team attended the Future In Review (FiRe) Conference in San Diego, CA during the week of May 20th, 2008. The conference is held each year to showcase select evolving technology companies. This year’s theme was early response with a focus on the global environment. Because of its unique ability to combine carbon credit creation with corresponding agricultural advancement, EcoVerdance was featured throughout the week as the first Spotlight Company in the Conference’s seven year history.
4/29/08
EcoVerdance will be the spotlight company at the upcoming Future In Review (FiRe) Conference taking place May 20-23 in San Diego, California. To view the brochure that will be handed out, click here.
4/21/08
President R. David Morris returned this past weekend from a ten day trip to Africa. While there, he met with both NGO and governmental officials in Kenya, Uganda, and Burundi. The response to EcoVerdance was overwhelmingly positive and further testing of the product on the continent was begun. More information is available under Projects.
4/4/08
Representatives of the Company recently attended the Wall Street Green Trading Summit at Times Center in New York City April 2-3. The 7th Annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit was the seminal environmental financial market event created by Peter C. Fusaro. Working with Hedge Connection for the third year, the event covered carbon emissions trading and finance, renewable energy markets, cleantech VC, green hedge funds, and energy efficiency financial markets. The conference served valuable for both information and contacts.
2/8/08
The Company has just received reports on the recent introductory trip to Africa by Vernon Hunt, Larry Parrish, Murray Jackson, Jeff Hunt, and Dave Betzer between January 23rd and February 4th. These five of the Company’s representatives met with and establish additional contacts in Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, South Africa, and Zambia. Accele-Gro-M was distributed to select farmers for purposes of building an empirical yield database in Africa. These participants include small farmers with less than 1 acre, large test plots in cooperative groups, as well as research/government institutions. According to Vern Hunt, “to say that this trip to Africa was a success would be an understatement. Many important doors have been opened. I believe that the enthusiasm that we saw for Ecoverdance will rapidly spread across the entire African continent.” More information (including photos) can be found under Projects.
1/29/08
According to R. David Morris, President, “effective today Peter C. Fusaro has joined the Company as a key member of its advisory board. EcoVerdance considers Mr. Fusaro to be the leading carbon expert in the United States.” Mr. Fusaro is Chairman of Global Change Associatesin New York and is the best-selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron. He has been actively engaged on energy and environmental issues for 32 years. He is an energy industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental financial markets. He has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 30 years focusing on oil, gas, power, coal, emissions, carbon trading, and renewable energy markets. He is currently advising in the clean energy technology arena. Mr. Fusaro was recently selected for Who’s Who in America. He coined the terms “Green Trading” and “Green Finance” and holds the annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit with Reuters in New York each spring. He is also a well-known expert on Asia Pacific energy and environmental markets. In 2004, he co-founded the Energy Hedge Fund Center LLC. He has authored 13 books on energy and environmental trading. His three most recent books have been Cut Carbon, Grow Profits; Energy & Emissions: Collision or Convergence; Energy & Environmental Hedge Funds: The New Investment Paradigm. Mr. Fusaro graduated with an MA in International Relations from Tufts University and a BA from Carnegie Mellon University.
1/3/08
The Company is pleased to announce that effective January 3rd, 2008, Mallory C. Atkinson, III has joined the management team in the capacity of Chief Financial Officer. He will also serve as a director of EcoVerdance, Inc. Mr. Atkinson, 44, is a 1986 graduate of the JM Tull School of Accounting at the University of Georgia. From 1993 to the present, Mr. Atkinson has had a private accounting practice providing financial consulting, planning, and management services to numerous clients. Prior to that time, Mr. Atkinson worked at several companies including The Robinson-Humphrey Co, Inc., Southern Office Concepts, Inc., and Butler, Williams and Wyche, CPAs. He currently resides in Macon, Georgia.
