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Alternative Transportation – Lifestyle Choices
GreenDream Enterprises invites you to join us as we learn to live lighter on the planet. We take a holistic approach to the task of creating a sustainable society, working in several areas simultaneously to create the desired outcome: Living well, within the means of our environmental budget. Using ideas that span the ages, from ancient wisdom to modern technology, we create ways of living that better integrate with, and contribute to healing, our environment.
Learning to live lighter on the planet.
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“Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, dead coal miners, dirty air, devastated land, lost wildlife. No energy poverty, no oil-fed wars, tyrannies, terrorists. No leaking nuclear waste or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abundance: benign and affordable, for all, forever. That richer, fairer, cooler, safer world is now possible, practical, even profitable, because now, saving and replacing fossil fuels works better and costs less than buying and burning it.”
- Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
Reinventing Fire will focus on opportunities in the next five years that can profitably jump-start the journey toward a fossil-fuel-free economy.
Rocky Mountain Institute is engaging powerful partners across four key sectors—buildings, transportation, industrial design and electricity—to understand and vault the barriers to shifting from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. Although that transition will take decades to complete, and not all its details can be fully foreseen, big gains can start now. (Read more about RMI’s vision: Reinventing Fire)
GreenDream Enterprises is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council – Nevada Chapter and the American Solar Energy Society. We are also an early adopter of the 2030 Challenge. There are solutions to climate change that lead to a sustainable future and a healthy economy. Check them out!
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The Company
GreenDream Enterprises is currently focused on education and research. The company has provided consulting services to companies and individuals with a focus on integrating systems, technology and education to create positive results. Renewable energy, green building, alternative transportation and lifestyle choices – all of these topics are a part of the sustainability puzzle.
Principal
Steve Rypka is president of GreenDream Enterprises and is dedicated to “Learning to live lighter on the planet.” He is passionate about all things green, including solar electric and hot water systems, high performance green buildings, hybrid vehicles and other ways to make a positive impact on the environment and community.
Originally from San Francisco, he has lived in the Las Vegas valley since 1978. As a surfer, scuba diver, skier, hiker, sailor and photographer, Steve has always been deeply aware of the fundamental connections we share with our environment. He has studied environmental issues for many years, including the climate crisis. He has focused on green building and renewable energy as key solutions to this critical issue.
Recognizing the need for more awareness about these topics, Steve was a co-founder of the U.S. Green Building Council – Nevada Chapter (USGBC-NV) and Solar NV, the Southern Nevada Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society. He has served on the board of directors for both organizations and is past president of Solar NV, where he organized the first two Southern Nevada Solar Home Tours that are now an annual event.
Steve writes a Green Living column that appears bi-weekly in the Las Vegas Review Journal and has been recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council for his leadership in community outreach. He is a LEED accredited professional, teaches classes on green living and is an experienced public speaker.
Steve and his wife, Marsala, have directly reduced their personal carbon dioxide “footprint” by approximately 80%. They live and work in a net-zero electric, solar-powered home and continue to strive to live lighter on the planet, both personally and professionally. Steve believes in the power of Gandhi’s words to, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
