UBR Spotlight: Hightowers Petroleum’s High Octane Growth Strategies
This week on The Urban Business Roundtable, Hightowers Petroleum CEO Stephen Hightower and Diversity City Media CEO Dante Lee share key small business growth strategies....
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UBR Spotlight: How Promet Energy CEO Gregory White Got The Juice
This week on The Urban Business Roundtable: Gregory R. White, the co-founder and CEO of Promet Energy Partners L.L.C., a natural gas and electricity supplier...
Black Enterprise & Shell Hold Energy Forum This Weekend
As America grapples with its dependence on oil, a presidential push to adopt green practices and a global emphasis on the sciences, Black Enterprise will...
Van Jones to Headline Energy Forum
Van Jones, best-selling author of The Green Collar Economy and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, will headline a line-up of top...
Green Insider: Preparing Generation Next for Energy Jobs
How do we adequately prepare our youth for the challenge of leading our nation towards a more secure, responsible energy nation? Here we list three...
Green Insider: What’s Slowing Our Transition to Alternative Energy?
America's Transition to alternative energy is moving slowly. In 2009, wind power accounted for only 8% of our nation’s total consumption, and solar power was...
Funding Your Green Business
Carolyn L. Green is co-founder and managing partner of EnerGreen Capital Management, a Radnor, Pennsylvania-based private equity firm that focuses on late venture and growth...
Black Enterprise/Shell Energy Forum 2010
The Black Enterprise Energy Forum, A Conversation on Energy hosted by Shell, brought together business owners, energy company executives and industry experts to what the...
The Energy Booster
Bill Perkins, an energy trader by profession, accomplished some unusual goals last year. His Houston firm, Small Ventures U.S.A., invests in commodity markets for a...