Our Mission
Theresa Cardenas is the founder of Nobel Renewables Group LLC. Currently she is a Climate and Energy Outreach Consultant with the Union of Concerned Scientists based in Boston, Mass. She formed her consulting practice after 27 years in a management, business and marketing consulting capacity for various US based Fortune 500 companies. in 1999 She became co-owner of TC Building Inc., an energy-efficient award winning custom home building company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As an owner she oversaw the design and construction of multi-family homes. She also served as President of the Board for Thunder Mountain Water Co., a public utility providing water to Edgewood, NM.
Noble Renewable Group LLC was formed as a social enterprise to facilitate social and environmental change through the application of innovative and practical approaches to mitigate climate change. Her strategic planning and communication practice helps shape public policies using innovative and practical solutions for solving climate change impacts which threaten cultural heritage, water, clean air, food security, affordable housing and public health.
Unique to the practice, she incorporated her performing arts company, Theresa Cardenas Productions to forge connections between art and community consciousness. The company offers exhibitions, performance, public art and science talks, public forums and outreach. Since its inception in 2001 her company has written, published and produced original musical recording and innovative traditional and modern dance productions. In 2011 she was awarded an artist residency at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM, where she continues to research, write and produce.
She is the author of numerous articles, essays, blogs, and op-ed pieces on topics ranging from energy efficiency, home construction, heritage and climate change impacts. Of recent, she graduated from the National Hispana Leadership Institute in Washington D.C., where she completed an executive leadership one year fellowship on cross cultural communication, strategic management, public policy and leadership building. Ms. Cardenas holds a degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and a graduate of Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, executive education program.
Key Focus:
- • Climate Change Impact Campaigns
- • Public Policy Initiatives
- • Communications
- • Home Construction & Energy Efficiency Education
- • Public Outreach
- • Energy and Environmental Policy
- • Renewable Energy Technology Transfer
- • Strategic Planning & Management/Environmental Impact
- • Cross Cultural Communications
- • Environmental Leadership Building
- • Community and Civic Engagement Through The Arts
Our Mission
Access to clean water, air, affordable clean renewable energy, education and sustainable housing is a key lever for social and economic prosperity and the path to healthy sustainable communities.
