In the insurance business, innovation is often defined by lowering premiums for customers. For Harleysville Insurance, innovation has meant much more, and as a result, the Montgomery County-based firm racked up its biggest honor to date.
With about 350 people attending both its convention and awards ceremony last week, the Delaware Valley Green Building Council has reached a critical mass of sorts.
As a fourth-generation veteran of the U.S. Army, Bryan Lentz, the democratic state representative for the 161st district in Delaware County, was approached recently to advocate for clean energy legislation at the federal and state level.
Urban wind energy generation is not without its challenges, but a Northeast PA company called Trehab Renewable Energy is taking their small turbines to the streets in a region where large, rural turbines are plentiful.
A former 76ers cheerleader has taken up the cause for promoting science education among adults, and she is turning the old beauty vs. brains debate into a full-blown marketing campaign.
Just as there's been successful collaboration among the region's profit-driven entrepreneurs, Greater Philadelphia now needs space for its top social innovators.
When she moved from Virginia in 2005 and brought her family and business, R&D Green Materials, to Greater Philadelphia, Dara Woerdeman landed in a spot with a lot of talent, energy and unmet needs in green packaging.